2007-01-16 17:57:59 · 18 answers · asked by damodharan c 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
13 They got to have an extra one to check the batch
2007-01-16 17:59:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The baker's dozen has 13 where as a regular dozen has 12
2007-01-16 19:31:58 · answer #2 · answered by newsoutherngirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Bakers dozen is when you get 13 instead of 12 of something.
2007-01-16 19:38:28 · answer #3 · answered by lochmessy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
13, 12 for the dozen and one for the baker
2007-01-17 01:57:02 · answer #4 · answered by Peachy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
13
2007-01-17 01:26:09 · answer #5 · answered by Studly Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
13
2007-01-16 18:07:57 · answer #6 · answered by rspheart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a bakers dozen is 13 instead of 12
2007-01-16 18:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by Cyrus The Great 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
13
2007-01-16 18:00:40 · answer #8 · answered by Jdogg1508 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The oldest known source and most probable origin for the expression "baker's dozen" dates to the 13th century in one of the earliest English statutes, instituted during the reign of Henry III (r. 1216-1272), called the Assize of Bread and Ale. Bakers who were found to have shortchanged customers could be liable to severe punishment. To guard against the crude punishment of losing a hand to an axe, a baker would give 13 for the price of 12, to be certain of not being known as a cheat. Specifically, the practice of baking 13 items for an intended dozen was to prevent "short measure", on the basis that one of the 13 could be lost, eaten, burnt or ruined in some way, leaving the baker with the original dozen. The practice could be seen in the guild codes of the Worshipful Company of Bakers in London.
Baker's Dozen is a solitaire card game using a deck of fifty-one playing cards. The game is so called because of the 13 columns in the game, the number in a baker's dozen.
First, the cards are dealt into columns of four on the tableau, resulting in 13 columns. Any King that is in the top or middle of each column must be placed on the bottom before the game starts. Two Kings that are mixed into one column are placed on the bottom without changing their order.
The object of the game is to build all the cards onto the four foundations. The player must first free up the four aces and if one of them is found, it is placed on the foundation. Building on the foundation is up by suit, each from ace to king.
Only the top cards of each column can are available, and cards on the tableau, if they cannot be placed on the foundations yet, can be built down regardless of suit. Furthermore, once all cards are taken out of a column, the column can never be filled.
The game is won when all cards end up in the foundations.
The Baker's Dozen, a Yale University a cappella group
2007-01-16 18:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
13
2007-01-16 18:00:06 · answer #10 · answered by bamafannfl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You aint my Mommy, so...
13 is a bakers dozen. This was so that the baker could check the batch.
2007-01-16 21:50:40 · answer #11 · answered by Costy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋