Posted on 10/22/2021 11:15:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Fires from incendiary bombs burned the cake to a crisp..
A 79-year-old nutcake lies on a table in the workshop of the Department of Archaeology for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Historic Monuments Protection Authority. (Image credit: dpa picture alliance/Alamy Live News) Archaeologists in Germany are salivating over a hazelnut-and-almond cake that was baked 79 years ago and was recently dug up in a cellar in the German town of Lübeck — as a blackened, mummy-like relic.
Though the charred delicacy hasn't been edible for a very, very long time, it's still recognizable as a cake, representatives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck said in a statement. The cake's overall shape, nut fillings, details in the sugar icing decorations and even its wax-paper wrappings remained intact after the pastry was burned into a crisp, cake-shaped charcoal briquette during a World War II air raid.
Archaeologists have previously discovered the burnt remains of long-ago meals, but they rarely find food that's as whole and well-preserved as this cake was, according to the statement. It offers a glimpse into a dark moment in Germany's history and illuminates the fragility of life during wartime, Lübeck representatives said.
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From what I’ve heard about British cuisine it coulda been baked yesterday
Coming to a Biden supplied pastry shop near you!
Mikey will try it, he will eat anything
definitely dunkable
Reminds me of my wife’s first try at making biscuits 42 years ago.
The NHL would have been proud of them..................
Looks like something my daughter baked once.
“my wife’s first try at making biscuits 42 years ago”
Better now though....yes?
“Looks like something my daughter baked once”
Looks like something I evacuated once. Lol
Yes!...................
Quick, someone call Steve1989!
https://youtu.be/4RyPedalZCA?list=PLBGcWhZwqNZ_xmA-oBT3IIsTg9x4iTQFd
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“Let’s get this out onto a tray. Nice!”
The RAF really did a number on Lubeck. And Hamburg and Rostock.
Yup. Old “Bomber’’ Harris torched the crap out of those cities.
When I was in we had ‘C-Rats’..................
And Dresden.................
I was lying in a burned out basement....
Nothing compared to what the Nazis did to Warsaw.
The Russians will claim credit for it like they claim credit for everything the Allies did in WW2. LOL
I’ve seen fruitcake twice as old as that.
looks like a brownie
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