I’m gobsmacked!
English folklore suggests that sharing a hot cross bun would ensure friendship throughout the coming year.
ALSO IN 1821...
George IV was crowned king. One of his first acts was to increase his mistress’s allowance to [pounds sterling]10,000 a year ([pounds sterling]818,000 in modern money)
Scientist Michael Faraday faraday /far·a·day/ (F ) (far´ah-da) the electric charge carried by one mole of electrons or one equivalent weight of ions, equal to 9.649 × 104coulombs.
far·a·day
n. invented the first electric motor out of magnets, wire and a cup of mercury
John Constable painted The Hay Wain and exhibited it at the Royal Academy. It failed to find a buyer
German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first string symphony - aged 12
The Bronte sisters moved to Haworth parsonage in the Pennine moors. Charlotte, who would later write Jane Eyre, was five
Napoleon died in exile in Saint Helena of suspected arsenic poisoning
The Romantic poet John Keats died of tuberculosis aged 26, in Rome
So the question begs to be asked... If you eat it, what coffee would compliment it? ; )
....Or was it John Q. Adams?