Choices! What will it be? #59

Hello, Steemians! It's another session of the contest, "choices". For this session, I go with the Bakery. Stay with me.

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I still can remember vividly, my childhood days. There was a large bakery in my neighborhood. The building was so large and painted with a blue coloured paint. The bakery had different rooms for different purposes and ventured into baking bread alone.

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The bakery had a room where bread was baked using the traditional oven. The oven was always heated with large coals. Watching this sight was delightful but the intense heat that came with being around there was immeasurable. The coal would get red hot before the mixed batter, after being put in aluminum pans, will be launched into apartments found at the top side of the oven such that the heated coal was directly under the apartments but some distance apart to avoid direct contact. People were employed to work in the oven room and their work was to make sure the oven is headed to the needed degree of heat, the pans containing the dough are launched in correctly, check on the dough to ensure it doesn't get burnt while baking and take the loaves out of the oven when thoroughly baked.

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The bakery also had a mixing room. Staying in the mixing room was always fun. This is where the bread dough was always mixed. The batter they made was a combination of butter, flour, nutmeg, egg, milk, yeast, sugar and salt. People were also employed to work strictly in the mixing room. The dough is kneaded and kept to rise in pans with the influence of yeast. It is from this room that the pans were taken to the oven.

Another room they had in the Bakery was a room where the baked breads were kept for cooling and packaging. The Bakery had a beautiful pack with the name "" Divine bread"". A different set of employees handled the packaging.

The last room that was there is the sales room like they called it. Here, the package breads were sold out to customers. The space was strictly for making sales. They had two people who handled sales and one lady who handled records of sales.

One thing that made the bakery outstanding at that time is the fact that the loaves of bread made by them were milky, soft and sweet. It really was all shades of sweetness and affordable. We grew up eating loaves of bread until they ran out of patronage due to high cost of materials used for the baking and had to close the bakery.

Wondering how I still remember? We had fun times around that Bakery. They always made sure little children were given little loaves of bread every Saturday they come around the Bakery. The children were not allowed to go beyond the sales room but I had the opportunity to see all that happened in those rooms because my big brother worked there. He worked in the mixing room.
The managers at the bakery made sure they organized end of the year party for children in the neighborhood. Loaves of bread were shared and food too. They made living in the neighborhood fin for the children and adults. For the adults, boreholes were dug to make treated pipe borne water available for them to fetch.

Here is a little poem for the Divine bread bakery, I so cherish.

Did you hear of the Divine bread bakery?
The one where milky and delicious loaves of bread were made.
Oh! Maybe you didn't and that's why I am telling you about it now.

Did you hear of the Divine bread bakery?
The one where all the children in the neighborhood camped in every Saturday.
Oh! Maybe you didn't, and that's why I am telling you about it now.

Did you hear of the Divine bread bakery?
The one that was the talk of the neighborhood at that time.
Oh! Maybe you didn't, and that's why I am telling you about it now.

Did you hear of the Divine bread bakery?
The one which made my cravings for bread now a reality.
Oh! Maybe you didn't, and that's why I am telling you about it now.

Did you hear of the Divine bread bakery?
I really missed you after you left the neighborhood.
Oh! Maybe you didn't know, now I've told you.

Did you hear of the Divine bread bakery?
I still hope you'd come back to the neighborhood soon
Yeah! We need you still.

I want to invite @imadear, @roselove and @darasimi to participate in this contest.
Thank you @steemladies for having me.

Cc;
@patjewell