Border Baker, Stanthorpe, 1872
Photographer: William Boag
Location: Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Description: This was one of seven bakeries in early Stanthorpe. Bread was a staple of the miner's diet and the wheaten loaf or damper, made when brewer's yeast could not be procured, went well with black tea, salted meat and potatoes. Ground maize, boiled rice and other things were added to the bread which was later stamped with its maker's initials. A two pound loaf sold in Stanthorpe for about 6 pence in 1873. (Description supplied with photograph.)
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