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over a year ago
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"1 in 13 people not only know what a bakers dozen is, they also know why the bakers dozen came about  "
I can safely say I’m not one of those. I know how many it is but not the back story. Care to enlighten?? Please and thank you  |
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"1 in 13 people not only know what a bakers dozen is, they also know why the bakers dozen came about
I can safely say I’m not one of those. I know how many it is but not the back story. Care to enlighten?? Please and thank you "
A baker would make a dozen to sell and an extra one to eat themselves I think |
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"1 in 13 people not only know what a bakers dozen is, they also know why the bakers dozen came about
I can safely say I’m not one of those. I know how many it is but not the back story. Care to enlighten?? Please and thank you "
Bread was a very important food source in the medieval period and people were reliant upon the baker to get a lot of their calories. As such, it became regulated, with laws stating how much a loaf of a certain cost should weigh. Bakers could be punished if their bread was underweight, so they began to throw in an extra loaf per dozen, just in case the loaves were minimally underweight. It was also a goodwill offering - a way of saying "look, Im not swindling you! I will even throw in an extra loaf so you can feel confident that I have good intentions!"
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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"1 in 13 people not only know what a bakers dozen is, they also know why the bakers dozen came about "
Was it the the master baker squeezed a little bit more white sticky stuff out so he could put an extra bun in the oven ? |
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"1 in 13 people not only know what a bakers dozen is, they also know why the bakers dozen came about
Was it the the master baker squeezed a little bit more white sticky stuff out so he could put an extra bun in the oven ?"
This Dozen even make sense...:p |
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