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Kōrero: Food and beverage manufacturing

Upper Hutt’s first bakehouse

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Upper Hutt’s first bakehouse

Three bakers take a break outside their bakehouse in Upper Hutt in the 1890s. The main bread preference established by this time was for light, white bread made from wheat. Brown bread carried a stigma of poverty. Rye breads and other types of breads brought to New Zealand by German and Scandinavian settlers were lost to the British preference for white wheat bread.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-106501; F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Bread, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22993/upper-hutts-first-bakehouse (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Sarah Wilcox, i tāngia i te 3 March 2010.