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WEDDING CAKES The cake has always been a great feature of wedding festivities. Today it is an accepted one. However, few people could tell you how the wedding cake came about. It is said to have originated in old Roman times, when the custom was for the bride and bridegroom to eat of a special bread together. In later time 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 the 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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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)
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129Do You Know? Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)
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