Even the British wedding cake is following the general trend towards growing a tough hide. A young 1942 bride, Mary Johnson, told Macdonald Hastings (who does the 8.8. C. spoken "London Letter” to North America) of an unusual substitute for the icing of her war time bridal cake. Enough of the right kind of sugar being unobtainable, the ornamental “icing” was made out of cardboard. “You just lift off the ‘icing’ to got at the cake,” she said in a matter-of-fact tone.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 3
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