OLD WEDDING CAKE
KEPT FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. REMARKABLE PRESERVATION. A doctor writing in the ‘ British Medical Journal ’ contributes an interesting letter which illustrates the keeping properties of wedding cake. He says ; " I recently celebrated my silver wedding. My wife and family and I partook of* small portions from a slice of the original wedding cake, which I had put into a tin twenty-five years ago, the lid of which I had soldered up. Except „ for a slightly rancid taste and odour, it was in wonderful preservation, and .still retained the ordinary flavour of such cake. Curiously enough, no part Of the tin’s contents were recognisable as sugar icing or almond. ’ "I had added that the Lister Institute was good e sough to report on it before we lasted it. It was bacteriologically sterile, apparently. Not one of us was upset by the small portions we consumed. I possess another tin with a piece of the same original cake. The intentions to keep it _ in case a golden wedding anniversary is over reached."
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 15
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172OLD WEDDING CAKE Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 15
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