The final indignity befell Cpl. William Demby when his name was spelled incorrectly on his tombstone at Loudon Park National Cemetery. The Union Army corporal died of wounds during the Civil War and was interred off Frederick Avenue in Southwest Baltimore. But what is thought to be a handwriting error denied him the recognition of a properly marked white limestone marker. Born in Queen Anne’s .
Clapcake
Clapcake, clapbread, or havercake from Cumbria, northern England, and clap scones from Scotland, resemble the thin crispbread we usually associate only with Scandinavia. “The Diary of Celia Fiennes” from 1698 tells us how these clapcakes were made in Cumbria:
They mix their flour with water, so soft as to rowle it in their hands into a ball, and then they have a board made round and something hollow in the middle riseing by degrees all round to the Edge a little higher, but so little as one would take it to be only a board warp’d, this is to Cast out the Cake thinn and so they Clap it round and drive it to ye Edge in a Due proportion till drove as thinn as a paper and still they Clap it and drive it round, and then they have a plaite of iron same size with their Clap board, and so shove off the Cake on it and so set it on Coales and bake it…
The Hull and East Yorkshire developments set to transform our region
A housing complex for veterans, flats in a historic Hull mansion and an emergency mortuary are among them
05:00, 1 JAN 2021
A host of new developments are coming to East Yorkshire after getting planning permission in 2020. (Image: Copyright unknown)
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