WEDDING CAKE CUSTOMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1322, 28 December 1911, Page 9

WEDDING CAKE CUSTOMS.

Tho legends attaching to the wedding cake are fully as old as thoso of the ring, for we find the bride of ancient Kome having a cake broken over her head as a symbol of plenty. From this beginning comes the elaborately ornamental cake of to-day. The Roman bride carried three ears of wheat in her hand, and tho early English bride wore wreaths of wheat, which were sometimes golden. The grains were thrown over her as wo throw rice to-day. Often the wheat was ground, made into small cake?, which were broken over tho bride's head, and the pieces distributed to tha guests; hence our wedding cake placed in boxes. Cakes ■ which were thrown to tho onlookers were in vogueduring tho reign of Queen Elizabeth. In the seventeenth century French cooks who came to England advanced tho course littlo cakes to marvellous specimens decorated with ornamental wings, but even then it was considered essential to break it over tho head of the bride, fo that those who «mld afford it offered two, ono for breaking and one to ba used as the table's chief attraction. Perhaps tho most famous wedding cukos are made in Chester, England." Those wonderful plum loaves arc sent, carefully foaled, to brides in India. Australia, and America. Sometimes thc=-o Monstrous confections aro five feet in height, and are made by men long skilled in their building. Individual ideas in- decorating are carefully carried out In detail. Tho cake made in 1893 for tho Duke and Duchc«s of York was most lavish, and marvellously "carried out in : design 'of May blossoms and the white rose of York, with the bridoCTOom's shins and sea emblems like dolphins, mermaids, and shells worked out in icing. Of late years heart-shaped cakes have taken greatly in favour. They are simply ornamental with a conventional border, the monogram -of tho brido' and bridegroom, and the dato of tho wedding.

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