Fournier

“….By the 15th Century the lordly rights had evolved further, and were usually preserved as a licence or lease (fermage) which the lord sold to a master of the communal oven, who then could sublet its use to individuals, or could bake for a charge (the person who actually ran the oven was the Fournier)

Occasionally the ovens were used to sterilise the feather stuffing of pillows and mattresses: the feathers were washed, the dried in the warm oven for five or six days in sacks to kill odours and parasites.” (Circa 15th Century)

Excerpt from ‘The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens’
By Alan Scott, Daniel Wing

This song was built using samples from a conventional gas oven, combustion fireplace and toaster.

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