This baking tray may have been used for cooking a variety of foods eg. muffins, scones, cupcakes etc. Nowadays trays are not so heavy as they are made from lighter metal and can be non-stick This tray is historic as it is made from cast iron compared to light metal trays with non stick surfaces in use today. Used by a resident of the Kiewa Valley.Heavy Cast Iron Baking Tray with 12 'cups' joined at the top and with a small 'handle' at each end.cast iron baking tray, cooking

This cake tray is an example of domestic baking equipment used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The mixture would be cooked in a combustion, wood-fired oven, and the convenient handles at each end would be used to remove the tray after baking. The cake tray is an example of domestic kitchen equipment used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its heavy weight indicates that it was used in a wood-fired or combustion oven. It is the forerunner of today's aluminium, non-stock and silicone baking trays. Cast iron cake tray with moulded half-sphere shapes for a dozen (12) cakes, gem scones, drop scones or other small baked items. The pan has handles on the short ends.flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, cake tray, cake tin, cake pan, cake mould, cupcake, gem scone, drop scone, baking tray, baking tin, cooking, baking, baking equipment, cast iron cake pan, domestic cooking, cooking equipment, vintage, bakeware

This is an antique, bread baking tray. During the 19th century people used open flames for cooking or stoves. Stoves were gaining popularity in the 1800s, but they were not electric or gas like ours are now. Instead, they had either a wood fire or a coal fire inside. The stove allowed the heat to more uniformly cook and bake food than an open flame.This is an antique, bread baking tray. There are three tins joined by rivets to a heavy metal frame, so they cannot be separated. It shows considerable surface rust, but no holes and it can be used. It is very heavy, weighing close to 3 kgs. bread tins, baking tins, containers for baking bread

Older gem scone trays were made of cast iron. This more modern one is made of cast aluminium.This domestic kitchen baking tin is typical of the period when when most food was made at home. It would have been before the time of mass food processing factoriesA solid cast aluminium gem scone tin. It has hemisherical indents for baking 12 small cakes.WAYdomestic food-preparation gem-scones baking

The gem scone iron was used by the donor, A. FullerThe gem iron was an essential part of the kitchen when wood stoves were used, and baking biscuits, scones and cakes etc. was part of everyday life. Many of the oven trays were made of cast ironBlack cast iron tray with twelve cups welded together for making gem sconesdomestic items, cooking

This domestic kitchen baking tin is typical of the period when when most food was made at home. It would have been before the time of mass food processing factories.Two vintage heavy cast iron gem scone tins or trays, one slightly larger than the other. Each has 12 hemispherical indents for baking 12 small cakes.cooking equipment, kitchen equipment, kitchenware, baking tins, cake tins