Show gravestones marked bread count rumford the physicist who i made outstanding contributions to culinary science began his ex peri ments on an baking in ovens made from tombstones according to a paper prepared for the american chemical society in 1782 the first presbyterian church of huntington long island was torn down and its timbers used to build a british fort in the graveyard by the order of col benjamin thompson who later became count rumford the were used in the construction of tables and ovens huntington residents therefore ate loaves of bread which bore on the lower crusts the Xe reversed versed inscriptions of the tombstones of their dead friends |