For a chuckle:
http://www.goodfood.com.au/good-food/cook/is-it-ok-to-put-coins-in-the-christmas-pudding-20131116-2xn0i.html?aggregate=515706
Eric
thanks for that
and now I know how to preserve whole apricots without a fowlers kit!
Silver is a natural antibiotic and it is suppose to be the reason that many richer people remained well in the old days.
They were using silver knives, forks and spoons to eat their meals.
we have friends who are from Pakistan and they serve up little cakes that have silver foil on the top of the cake - thin as a wafer
but edible - very nice too
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='35103' dateline='1385113004'we have friends who are from Pakistan and they serve up little cakes that have silver foil on the top of the cake - thin as a wafer
but edible - very nice too
http://www.cakesaroundtown.com.au/catalog/cakes-around-town-silver-leaf-book-sheets-p-3328.html
Or, just melt down some round 50ยข :dodgy:
yeah!! that is the stuff
it doesn't really taste like anything but it looks great
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='35111' dateline='1385115050'yeah!! that is the stuff
it doesn't really taste like anything but it looks great
Oh dear... Look what I just found! :(
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/profiles/blogs/indian-sweets-silver-foils
OMG that is disgusting
i'll never eat the stuff again
"Only eat Australian silver". :Alvarin_33:
Silver is considered edible in Europe, where it is listed as food additive E174 in the European code. In America, the FDA officially regards silver as inedible and advises that those little balls of silver-coated sugar (dragees) used to decorate cakes be treated as decorative items only and should not be eaten. Silver dragees are illegal to sell in California, but legal in all other states.
Pure silver should be harmless to eat; your stomach acid is primarily hydrochloric acid, which does not react with silver. If you're going to eat silver (or use silver coins in cooking), make sure it's fairly high-purity silver. Sterling is OK, but the .800 and .500 fine coins have too much copper in them to be safe. Cupronickel substitutes are a definite no-no.
From the website in the OP:
QuoteYou can buy pudding packs of sixpence, shillings and tuppence from coin dealers. Try perthmint.com.au.
I like how they treat the Perth Mint as a "coin dealer". But it's true. Perth Mint will indeed sell you a little red bag of "pudding coins" (http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/christmas-pudding-coin-pack.aspx), with three threepences and three sixpences in it, for $25. Though I notice that the coins pictured as examples in the Perth bag are .500 fine.
Finally, I think they meant to say "threepences", not "tuppences". A British silver tuppence (http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/world-coin-prices.aspx?category=122859&worldcoinid=314183) would be too small to use in food safely without risk of swallowing, and a cartwheel tuppence is not only made of solid copper but is big enough to serve a pudding on.
QuoteFinally, I think they meant to say "threepences", not "tuppences".
Is thought they just made a mess of thruppence. :angel:
They spelt it how people say it. Same like "hapney" for half penny.
Quote from: 'drakesterling' pid='35192' dateline='1385172552'They spelt it how people say it. Same like "hapney" for half penny.
Even though they're my denomination of choice, I still call them half pennies or halves :s
It is usually "ha'penny".
Jeff the pedant.
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='35195' dateline='1385174523'Jeff the pedant.
Jeff the ha'penny pendant?
Oh, and you left the N out mate... just being helpful, as I am wont to be... :angel:
hehe when i was kid , i swallowed a threepence when i was eating plumb pudding .:scratch_one-s_head: and no AJ before you ask . i don't know what year it was , :icon_cry: or if it's was toned or cleaned lol
Quote from: 'bellyflorin' pid='35216' dateline='1385180347'hehe when i was kid , i swallowed a threepence when i was eating plumb pudding .:scratch_one-s_head: and no AJ before you ask . i don't know what year it was , :icon_cry: or if it's was toned or cleaned lol
What, you didn't recover it and check????????????
I can just imagine the PCGS grading it would get.... :diablo:
I said "pedant" and I meant "pedant". So there!
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='35220' dateline='1385181153'I said "pedant" and I meant "pedant". So there!
But lets not get pedantic about it...
Besides, the thought of you hanging from a gold chain is kinda interesting... :dodgy:
Quote from: 'bellyflorin' pid='35216' dateline='1385180347'hehe when i was kid , i swallowed a threepence when i was eating plumb pudding .:scratch_one-s_head: and no AJ before you ask . i don't know what year it was , :icon_cry: or if it's was toned or cleaned lol
gee belly
no choking?
we had a little child in the ED - obstructed in the airways at the hospital a while back and I can't remember if it was a $1 or $2 - I think it was a $2 though cause I remember thinking hat it seemed less likely to occur for the size of that coin -
reports were that within 2 minutes the child was intubated and going up to theatres - survived too, hopefully without too much brain injury
I think it is a silly practice - although we do remember having fun with it - my nana used to put the coins in very strategically so they were found easily and oddly littlest kids got the 3ps then as the kids got older the denomination got higher - i always used to wonder about how come that happened every Christmas - my big sis would never swap her pud plate with mine!!