Elizabeth Raffald (1733–1781) was an English author, innovator and
entrepreneur. Born and raised in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Raffald went into
domestic service for fifteen years, ending as the housekeeper to the
Warburton baronets at Arley Hall, Cheshire. She moved with her husband
to Manchester, where she opened a register office to introduce domestic
workers to employers; she also ran a cookery school and sold food from
the premises. In 1769 she published her cookery book The Experienced
English Housekeeper, which contains the first recipe for a "Bride Cake"
that is recognisable as a modern wedding cake. She is possibly the
inventor of the Eccles cake. In August 1772 Raffald published The
Manchester Directory, a listing of 1,505 traders and civic leaders in
Manchester—the first such listing for the up-and-coming town. Her
recipes were plagiarised by other authors, notably by Isabella Beeton in
her bestselling Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Raffald>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1837:
Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person ever to be
elected Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson>
1879:
Enraged by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket
spectators rioted and attacked the England team during a match in
Sydney, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Riot_of_1879>
1960:
The official groundbreaking of the Walk of Fame (example star
pictured) took place in Hollywood, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame>
2010:
A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan
triggered a series of avalanches that buried over 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of
road, killed 175 people and trapped more than 2,500 travellers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Salang_avalanches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pipe:
1. (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with
holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the
tube. […]
2. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in
plumbing and numerous other applications. […]
3. (Australia, colloquial, now historical) An anonymous satire or essay,
insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which
was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus
spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is
divine meaning in the life of the world, of man, of human persons, of
you and of me. Creation happens to us, burns itself into us, recasts us
in burning — we tremble and are faint, we submit. We take part in
creation, meet the Creator, reach out to Him, helpers and companions.
--Martin Buber
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Buber>
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