Sending Iced Cakes Overseas
Dear Aunt Daisy, About this wedding cake. to be iced to send to England. Well! Take the yolk of an egg, break with fingers and spread over cake thinly. Then cover cake with almond icing. Roll out plastic icing (which you can buy) like you would pastry. But sprinkle cornflour on the bench (not flour). Then lightly moisten the almond icing with cold water. Then put plastic icing on, cut off what isn’t required. Then put some cornflour in each hand, rub together;
then rub plastic icing all over. This smooths it, and mends any breaks. You rub untjl you have a lovely smooth shiny surface. The cake should then be standing on a silver board. Now you beat up stiffly the whites of two eggs. Sieve in to this enough icing sugar to make fairly stiff. Then, with an icing forcer, you can decorate your own cake very easily. I did my sister’s wedding cake. The top tier she kept in a tin for a christening cake. It was exactly two years before she used it and it was as good that day as the day I did it. , The plastic icing never. goes hard. The egg yolk sticks the almond icing to the cake; also the water sticks the plastic icing to the almond paste. It is better and cheaper to send the cake air freight, instead of air mail. ’ "Judy" (Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 27
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238Sending Iced Cakes Overseas New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 27
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