This got me for a second until I looked up the actual object.
It’s made from sandstone, not oatmeal.
Baking powder wasn’t invented until the 1800s.
god dam it I wanted it to be real
It’s made from sandstone, not oatmeal.
Maybe the one in Edinburgh Castle now is a fake and it got swapped out with the real oatmeal one before England stole it 😂
Baking powder wasn’t invented until the 1800s.
They could’ve used trona 😅
There’s also natron and potash which have been known since antiquity, but I can’t find any reference to them being used as leavening agents before the early Industrial era.
Sodium carbonate (washing soda) is used in baking to encourage browning, but it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide when heated.
You need sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) which is only a small constituent in trona, and without knowing how to concentrate it, or that you can, it’s unlikely it would have been used as a leavening agent before the advent of modern chemistry. You’d have to add so much that it would ruin the batter or just turn it bitter.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) turns into sodium carbonate when heated in an oven, which is used by amateur chemists sometimes to make the carbonate if they don’t have it on hand.
Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and a food-safe dry acid, which react when water is added. This wouldn’t have been invented before the chemistry of acids and bases was discovered.
Is that what dwarf bread is based on?
Either that or Nature Valley crunchy granola bars.
(Dwarf bread is probably based on hard tack, a puck of dense biscuit eaten by sailors in the far off days of long ahead. A bread so dense it would make US Southerners weep, and explains the lack of teeth on sailing ships far better than scurvy)
Good to know! Thank you.
I only eat Koom Valley brand granola bars
It is amazing, though I think Thud is my favorite, as nothing has made me attempt to stifle a laugh harder than Vimes screaming, “Where’s my cow‽”
Is anyone expecting people to actually keep all the disc world novels apart?
How was it used to crown monarchs? I’m having trouble imagining the scones role in the crowning procedure.
Looking at the Wikipedia article for the actual stone of scone, it’s a rock that the king sat during the ceremony.
Pronounced “Scoon”
Thank you!
It’s the name of a small village on the site of an Abbey where the kings of Scotland were traditionally crowned.
Ah, thank you. That makes more sense.
I like how just saying ‘Scone of scone’ makes you just a little bit genetically Scottish.
Must have been originally forged by the McDonald clan.
@SirSamuel@lemmy.world scone of stone inspiration?
Amazing, and thank you for summoning me
It is highly likely this was the inspiration for the Scone of Stone, but I’m not aware of Sir Terry talking about it. The wiki editors certainly see a connection tho, and I think it’s a fair assumption to make that this is the thing and the whole of the thing
So it’s small? Big? Heavy?
66cm x 42.4cm x 26.67cm and 152kg converted from old fogey to metric.
So yeah big and heavy I’d say.
I watched a funny Irish man talk about this in a video.
