WEDDING CAKE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 9

WEDDING CAKE.

According to an authority, Queen Victoria was the first to introduce the wedding-cake as we know it to-day, with its tier upon tier of rich fruit mixture, covered with frosted icing and sugar ornamentation. Nor has tho fashion stopped there, for cakes for weddings in 19L0 are far more decorative .than formerly. This fact is much appreciated in tho trade, for the elaborate sugar work needs an individual gift, and a well-paid one at that. Artists ate kept continually busy over special 'designs, and brides take endles3 trouble in studying tho devices prepared for tbem. A naval or military wedding must be specially indicated, and if either bride or bridegroom is -distinguished in some particular sport or game, that point has to he emphasised in the ornamentation. Tennis rackets,golf sticks, or details of a hunting outlit, aro frequently reproduced in miniature, and these form favours to be distributed amongst the guests after tho cake is cut. A new idea which simplifies the cutting of the cake by tho bride is for the confectioner to divide a thick wedge beforehand so that the bride merely severs a ribbon, and by so doing liberates tho slice so that it falls out. The clumsy, old-fashioned way of. the bride actually cutting through the liard icing and thick cake meant a good deal of waste which is how saved by tho newer method.

Pa—"My boy, you must learn to say 'No' firmly , and positively." • Soil— "Why?" Pa—"-Because you never know when soma widow may propose to you."