CAKE 25 YEARS OLD.
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 25 years ago, thq lid' of which I had soldered up. Except for a slightly rancid taste and odour, it was in wondlerful preservation, an 3 still contained the ordinary flavour of such cake. Cuuriously enough, no part of the tin’s contents were recognisable as sugar icing or almond.
“I had added that the Listqr institute wQs good enough to report on it before we tasted it. It was bacteriologjcally 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 intention is to keep it in ease 'of a golden wedding a,nniver,sary being rqaehed.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5355, 23 November 1928, Page 4
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170CAKE 25 YEARS OLD. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5355, 23 November 1928, Page 4
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