Question

1 Bread and baker played a very significant role in a Goan village. Illustrate with
reference to the lesson ‘A baker from Goa’.
2 What are the things that testify the flourishing baking history in Goa?
3 What was a baker called?
4 Why would children wait for the baker?
5 What was the customary thing that was a part of the marriage gift?
6 How can you say that baking was a profitable business?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The pader or baker was an important person in the Goan village as well as in the author's life. He used to mix, mold and bake loaves of bread in age-old, tested furnaces. He used to come twice a day, once in the morning to sell bread and then while returning after emptying his basket.
2. Baking was indeed a profitable profession in the old days. The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique was an open testimony to this.
3. The baker is called a pader.
4. The children waited eagerly for bakers every day. At times, they get so much excited that they do not even care to brush their teeth. ... The baker and his family lead a prosperous life. Their physique was plump that shows that they lead a prosperous life.
5. The villagers were much fond of the sweet bread known as 'Bol'. Marriage gifts were meaningless without these sweetbreads. Sandwiches, cakes and bolinhas were a must for Christmas as well as other festivals. These were made with the bread.
6. Baking was really a profitable profession as the bread was an important part of the food of the Goan people. The presence of the baker's furnace in the village is absolutely essential. In this profession, the people never starved. The bakers earned well and kept servants.