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Jun
How to Make a Clay Model of a Tin Loaf
Today's homeschool handicraft project is a clay model of a tin loaf. We will be making model #40 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin as part of our clay modelling series. Now it occurred to me that some of you younger folks may not know what a tin loaf is. To make a tin loaf, bakers bake the bread in a tin loaf pan. At the turn of the 20th century, when this book was written, bakers increasingly used bread tins because they produced consistent, evenly sized loaves and kept the crumb softer for longer. Although bakers still use...