The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-08
THE ART OF THE eAkER-
an Improvement I'm the Methods of Max
ing cakes-The Latest Novelties.

Improvement In the Methods of Mall.
ing oakes-The Latest Novelties.
fine .cake-making is not secret. but
us manifestly an art. The regulation
oia,time pound-cake, and jumbles are
SUI TO be seen, but they no longer hold
sne palm. Even the delicious sponoe
CAKE SO delightful in childhood's men,
Dry now takes modest back seat no
fore the appearance of the multitude Of
other light, feathery loaves and LAYER
cakes.
we sell on an average about 5000
worth OF cake each MONTH" said =
young lady behind the small counter 81
place where genuine domestic com
pouhus IN The way of bread, cake. nre-
serves etc, are offered for sale. .!Tbe
oenand IS about equal for delicate loaf |
cakes ana layer cakes. We have Some |
can Tor old-fashioDed fruit cake hnt |
.here are several fruit cakes made now
n'ueh iighter and less indigestible that
reaiiy Taste nicer. too, and thew scenic
DC preferred. We keep that oldetimo
standby, pound cake, on hand al,vays :
.'oo.s.sIayer cakes are filed with every
tning.Jeilies, chocolate, nuts. creams
ana. frult. A favorite cake is the ono
MADE with English walnuts. A now
cake Is called walnut cream tbe tlaunr
= IA the hlllng. Another new cake
= pineapple. The canned fruit is used.
oos chopped line and mixed with
lrosting for the filing. 'Pinafore' cake
; made with alternate layers of mink
ma white icing. the pink being given |
Is Unit by using few drops of the frnit | :
'oionng that can be bought at any GRO. I
=. s. Dolly Warden cake is the same s
nihg except that instead of pure white A
ing chocolate is mixed with it. The /
ghter ana more delicate cake can he $
lade the better it is liked. Conse. +
uentiy the greasy leaves, heavy with
ood butter, which our mothers wero h
night to consider the proper temnta. II
on 70 place before company. no lonoer h
ave an existence. The cake msdo D
DIV IS mostly harmless to the most del.
ately organized stomachs. but it's aw. :,
liy expensive to make. =;
Out lew ornamented cakes are used (,
Americans except on some nro- =,
'nnced festal occasion like wedding o ~
"a not always then. The yermans ~ ~
axe the most use of ornamental caLas W. ~
: lle cake Is very light. Some of the he
nanients designed to make the tops di,
cakes glorious are indeed of fearful M;
wonderful construction. / saw = ba
1he other day-four or five hundred. m;
ere were those not more than an to-
n hlgh, and some queer construc. en-,
as at least three feet tall. One had W.,
io.in OF the trunk of palm tree dis
en- IL, with an immense, busby head
nposed OF trailing rose vines, with sill.
leaves and orange buds. Beneath Jua
STOOD winged figure arrayed TTiy
cloak-a La Hamlet-and ENGAGED rol I
ne act of hurting forth crown Of rn'
rms; 1t was touching matrimonial AZ
IDOL. Then there were hands clasn- INN
hands, some tinted flesh color. with sun
most miraculous cuffs and frills ous
IT. the wrists. OF course there were Ple'
riage-bells and horse-shoes without ulss
DER and of considerable price T R.i'
'e were brides whose candy heads liz
sugar features were shaded bv IittIe eIeu
/! Butmora $685. sSanuIng on rhuh
9 were tbe ra,.s = nan Tue oriae that
, and brideoroans. I IL or the lied
- ny 'oOuli ne was clothed 4
e prescribed full dress black suit
gloves, and shirt-front as immacu.
as the confeetioner's art could -,
i1acture for him from sweet stuffs ''n'
ne German people sometimes use
ed flowers on cakes for special oc- rr'
u.s. but not for weddings. MANY infer
leans. however, consider cakes misse
nented in any way suggestive of prefe
a thing to gaze upon and not to novel
very bad taste, and seldom use -. -
1t is generally understood, even 's Vi
buyers of these decorated loayes. is triI
'elng for ornamentation thew are crown
error quality. Chicago people buy over ,
e quantity of nice cake, and we of buf
sell far more than we do if we straw
ores In different sections of the erase
lSiu Oh enterprise open to dressy
ily, andlm sure don Z know whv in sTa
10 not venture upon 'it.'-Chk | side Is
Guy ~ the ex
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