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I've currently got a hundred - odd lamingtons in a box in my freezer, so I'll post a picture of one in a couple of days --218.101.45.57 09:58, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Gelatin?!?!? Never heard of that! Is that some kiwi variant? The recipe in Oz is simple: Sponge cake coated with a mixture milk, cocoa and butter then rolled in coconut. What is the purpose of the gelatin? The variant with the cream is also found in Oz, though it's not very nice because it tends to be mock cream. Shermozle 11:35, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)
I heard (probably an urban legend) that the lamington originated from someone over-cooking a sponge cake, then saving it by dipping it in a thin mix of chocolate to make it more edible. Anyone actually have a source? Martin Rudat(T|@|C) 12:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Qld is very hot. If you leave cake out, it dessicates. Enrobe it in chocolate icing, and it will last longer. See side bar to the Lamington recipe in McMonigal, Valwyn. Australia Wide Cookbook (1995)ISBN 0646248243. The story about a piece of cake landing in gravy then into a bowl of coconut is great, but seems highly unlikely. Why would there be a bowl of coconut on a Cloncurry dinner table in the late C19th? Not exactly part of the Victorian cooking of the time. 165.121.29.125 06:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] I LOL'D
"Lamington is also a small Hamlet/village in north of Scotland near Tain. It has a postbox." I lol'd but I don't think it has shit to do with this article. Also that story sounds like horse shit, can we put it in as a myth or something?
[edit] The story in the article
Although the idea of a Baron flinging a gravy-covered cake over his shoulder into a banquet hall is beautiful, I have to say that I doubt this story a bit.--Deville (Talk) 16:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
same.
[edit] Gravy-lam story unconfirmed, but has history
Some basic googling has revealed that the gravy-lam tale certainly has legs, at least as a myth. It seems to have originated in an article by John Hepworth in Nation Review in July 1977. References added to the secondary but not the original source.
--Huge Bananas 13:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
The claim that he called the lamington "those bloody poofy woolly biscuits" is also from the same joke article. Walkerjoe 12:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Maryborough lays claim to the Lamington
Following the 1893 floods that swept away the old wooden bridge over the Mary River in Maryborough QLD the new concrete bridge - built by engineer Alfred Barton - was opened by Gov. Lamington in 1896, promptly named the Lamington Bridge, as it remains to this day, and after the ceremony they retired to the hotel up the road (Now called the Lamington Hotel) for lunch. There, the cook had run out of dessert ingredients and ..... yes the rest is history.--MichaelGG 13:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me where you got this story from? Walkerjoe 12:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Toowoomba story
Why is the Toowoomba story "The most probable version of events"? I have been conducting research on the origin of the lamington, and have not found it so.
A Toowoomba City Council representative emailed me regarding the city's claim to the cake after I questioned the reliability of this story, which they have recounted on tiles on footpaths (read the tile on my site, http://history.joewalker.org/2007/03/26/lamingtons-the-plot-thickens/). The email said that "The information is not certain," and that "A local man, Col Young, believes his grandmother, Fanny Young invented them. Fanny was employed as a cook to Lord Lamington when the first lamington appeared."
The Toowoomba story is based on Col Young's story that his grandmother invented them, and has (as far as I can tell) no documentary evidence. Also, the Toowoomba story states that the lamington was invented as it is today, while early references describe a different cake that gradually evolved into what we have today (see my earlier article on lamingtons, http://history.joewalker.org/?p=23). The Toowooomba City Council seem to have been pushing this unsubstantiated story for reasons of civic pride.
I plan to contact Col Young and will post an article and an update here regarding the reliability of his claim. Walkerjoe 12:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
