The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 8, February 20, 2005, Article 23

COOKING WITH COINS: BAD IDEA

Last week, we published Roger deWardt Lane's story about
his first dime, which had been accidentally baked into a pancake.

Leonard Augsburger writes: "Putting coins in pancakes is bad.
The following is from The Numismatist, December 1983:

Queen Victoria had in 1840 ordered that gold sovereigns be
placed in Christmas puddings given to the royal staff. The
tradition of handing the gold piece directly to the gift recipient
was a bit safer, because there was always the danger that
someone might swallow a coin by accident. This happened
on at least one occasion, to a gentleman named Ernest
Hatfield who accidentally ingested a Christmas coin baked
in a pudding and required surgery many years later to
remove it. "

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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