WEDDING CAKE LORE
The origin of the wedding cake goes back hundreds of years. In ancient Rome marriage was effected by the simple proeess of the bride and bridegromm breaking a piece of cake and eating it together. This, in time, developed dnto the bride cake. The bride cut it because it was the duty of the woman to prepare food for the man. Everybody knows the superstition about sleeping on wedding cake. Country girls in England, even in this age of cynicism, look forward to the weddings of their friends, so that they may get a piece of wedding cake, which, if placed under the pillow, has the power to produce in dreams the vision of a prospective husband.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 586, 18 July 1933, Page 7
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120WEDDING CAKE LORE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 586, 18 July 1933, Page 7
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