She lifted her head and saw an ancient native tending a long earthen oven that was spouting smoke from either end.
Nearest the tank stood the cooking house, where fires burned in carefully shielded earthen ovens.
Women baked bread in outdoor earthen ovens, planted large vegetable gardens, and helped one another with births and illnesses, while raising families of usually seven to eight children.
Richard could see the dozens and dozens of mounds, like little haystacks, that were the earthen ovens.
After it cooled, the earthen ovens could be opened and the charcoal removed.
Tandoori Roti is a relatively thick bread that ranges from elastic to crispy consistency, baked in a cylindrical earthen oven.
It is traditionally cooked at high temperatures in an earthen oven (i.e. tandoor), but can also be prepared on a traditional grill.
Another specialty is goat barbacoa cooked in earthen ovens.
The word Bharbhunja is derived from the Gujarati words bhad which means an earthen oven, and bhunja which means to parch.
The shells are first burnt in earthen ovens and then watered to prepare the slaked lime.