THE WEDDING CAKE
ORIGINATED IN ROMAN TIMES. The cake has always been a great feature of wedding festivities. Today it is t.n accepted one. However, few people could tell you how Ihe wedding cake came about. It is said to have originated in old Roman times, when the custom was for lhe bride and bridegroom to eat of a special bread together. In later times buns and cakes took the place of this bread, they were piled in a big heap, over which simple rites were performed to test whether happiness was in store. The large cake is recorded to have come about owing to a French cook conceiving lhe idea of making the mound of cakes into one large one, the simple customs probably by then having become somewhat meaningless.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 8
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131THE WEDDING CAKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 8
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