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Egyptian egg oven

Do you know how mommy bakes cookies in the oven at home? Well, in Ancient Egypt, people used a special kind of oven to cook eggs. The oven was made of clay and looked like a little dome with a hole on top.

First, they would make a fire with some sticks and dried grass in the hole on top of the oven. They would wait for the fire to make the clay oven hot. Then, they would put some eggs inside the oven on a small platform.

The heat from the fire would travel inside the oven and cook the eggs slowly. It was like when mommy puts the cookie dough in the oven, and the heat from the oven turns it into yummy cookies.

After some time, they would take the eggs out from the oven and eat them. They would have a hot breakfast or snack, and it was tasty!

So, the Egyptian egg oven was a special oven made of clay that used fire to cook eggs, just like mommy's oven makes cookies.
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