Count Rumford's Substitute for Tea & Coffee

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🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt from 1892’s The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu Williams titled Count Rumford’s Substitute for Tea and Coffee. Who is this Count Rumford, you may ask? Well, to summarize Count Rumford’s life in modern words: Benjamin Thompson was an interesting fellow. Born in Massachusetts in 1753, he charmed and married an heiress from Concord, New Hampshire, then called Rumford NH. He was a British loyalist when the American Revolutionary War began. When a rebel mob attacked his house, he abandoned his house and family to join the British side of the war and conducted experiments on gunpowder. Then he moved to Bavaria, and among other things applied his scientific skills to establishing workhouses for the poor and inventing the method of cooking called Sous Vide. For his efforts in science and society his awarded the title of Count. He chose the name Rumford for the town he was married in some twenty years earlier. -- read by 'V' -- Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/snoozecast) Listen Ad-Free on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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1:00.4	Tonight we'll read an excerpt from 1892s The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Matchew Williams, titled
1:11.1	Count Rumford Substitute for Tea and Coffee.
1:15.0	Who is this Count Rumford? you may ask?
1:19.0	First, I will let the author describe him.
1:22.0	That remarkable man I will let the author describe him.
1:23.0	That remarkable man, Benjamin Thompson,
1:27.0	the Massachusetts Prentiss Boy and Schoolmaster.
1:31.0	Afterwards, the British soldier and diplomatist. Colonel Sir Benjamin
1:38.5	Thompson, then Colonel of Horse and General Aid de Camp of the Elector Charles Theodore of Bavaria.
1:47.0	Then Major General of Cavalry, Privy Counselor of State and Head of War Department of Bavaria, then Count Rumpford of the Holy Roman Empire and Order of the White Eagle.
2:02.0	Then, Military Dictator of Bavaria, of the The author goes on here but then finishes with,
2:14.0	But, above all, a practical and scientific cook
2:19.0	whose exploits and economic cookery
2:22.0	are still but very imperfectly appreciated, though he
2:26.3	himself evidently regarded them as the most important of all his varied
2:31.3	achievements.
2:32.8	Now to summarize Count Rumford's life in modern words,
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