14/09/2026
Repost from Graffeg
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🔥 BAKESTONE COOKING — An Ancient Tradition, Still on Our Plates Today
Long before modern ovens and kitchen gadgets, people were cooking on hot stones, clay plates and iron griddles.
Evidence of hot-stone baking dates back to around 3000 BC in the Levant and Central Asia. By 1500 BC, Egyptians and Mesopotamians were using flat clay and metal plates to make bread. Across the world, distinctive traditions developed — from tortillas and tawas to saj bread, mitads, crêpes, blinis, jianbing and injera.
In Britain, bakestones and gridles became an important part of Welsh, Scottish and northern English cooking, traditions that have survived for centuries.
And we’re still enjoying their descendants today: Welshcakes, Scottish oatcakes and Irish potato farls.
Whether made on stone, cast iron or a modern non-stick pan, griddle cooking is wonderfully simple, versatile and enduring.
📖 Bakestone Cooking explores the fascinating history of one of humanity’s oldest ways of preparing food — and the dishes that continue to keep this tradition alive.
✨ Available to pre-order now from our website.
