Who invented baking cakes??!
!.!.!.Surely it wasnt the cavemen on this!!!.!. maybe the Victorians, (Victorian Sponge)!.!.!?!?!? But who really invented the way of baking cakes!!
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Answers:
in the spirit of giving absoultely ridiculous/untrue answers to this question, i'll say jesus!.
and my real answer is:
who knows!? anyone can throw some stuff in a bowl and heat it up (even me :D)
probably invented by the most prolific inventor of them all, accident!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
and my real answer is:
who knows!? anyone can throw some stuff in a bowl and heat it up (even me :D)
probably invented by the most prolific inventor of them all, accident!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
King Alfred (849 - 899) is supposed to have burned the cakes "a peasant woman" left him to watch!.
The Egyptiand were supposed to have made them 1st, though 'more like bread'!.
Rich Romans added honey, dried fruits to the mix!.
Chaucer wrote about special cakes in the 14th century!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The Egyptiand were supposed to have made them 1st, though 'more like bread'!.
Rich Romans added honey, dried fruits to the mix!.
Chaucer wrote about special cakes in the 14th century!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It is slighlty earlier than that, Mari Antoinette is know to have said 'let them eat cake' and that is before Queen Vic!. I suspect it is at the same time (certainly not before) the discovery of suger cane, which I think comes from the Carribean or the Americas!. Bread however has been about for far far longer!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Cake as we know them today date back about 500 years, but there were 'cakes' at least 10,000 YEARS ago, and probably longer, since it's now estimated that man has been on this planet at LEAST 40,000 YEARS!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
cakes have been around for BBIILLIIOONSS of years!.!.!. first made by !.!.!. i dunno!.!. colliding asteroids :SWww@FoodAQ@Com
Betty Croker!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Mr KiplingWww@FoodAQ@Com
Rose Tyler!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Queen of hearts after she made her tartsWww@FoodAQ@Com
OK !.!.!. my guess is the ancient Egyptians !.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com