Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-13
CHRISTMAS CAKES.
ENGLISH rUDolNGs AND CAKES co
ALL OVER THE WORLD.


in the Manufactare Of Wedding Cakes.
A Glance at the Interior Of Big Cake
store--caises Of Many Kinds.
Christmas cakes, New Years cakes,
Twelfth cakes Christening cakes, birthday
cakes and wedding cskes all come OF the
tame wealthy family-that is to say, they
are as rich Is rich can be. A high althor-
ity upon the whole subject chatted a day or
two ago about them. 1t was a painfully
appetizing conversation. for it took place In
showroom OF palatial proportions in
which were to be seen specimens of every
kind OF cake which mankind has invented
Tor social consumption. A cake, it must be
| promised, cannot be eaten in strict seclu-
sion. 1t must be enjoyed in pleasant com
pany or it becomes indigestiblc, and with
out Il cake the Christmas board would be
| incomplete.
I'VE sell thousands of Christmas cakes. -
| Eaid the gentleman whose firm has prob
| ably produced more cakes of every variety
| than eny one house in the world. ..rhty
| closely resemble the wedding cake, which
| Is recognized institution. By the way, /
| think wedding cakes arc getting larger and
heavier, ard certainly the sugar work orna-
| mentation is more elaborate and artisticaliy
executed. Necessarily the decoration must
be in white and silver, but sometimes real
dollhouse flowers are used to adorn the
cake"
What il the largest size wedding cakcfp
we sell some weighing five hundred
weight or six hundrcdwoigbt, and the
| largcst--fcr royalties--has been aboat ten
Lundredweight. a saw edged knife is sup
f7Iifd fer If.o ,ro,,-r 81. +,
which is frequently done, however, in adj
vance, end silver trowel is used by the
bride to withdraw the segment easily.'
On all sides were wedding cakes on
| shelves, some of them with light deposit
| OF almond icing upon their tops They
were al ordered Tor forthcoming marriayes.
THE icing" remarked the guide, sis
done as required. A very large cake is
| baked in sections and aftcrwartl fitted t.
gether. That man there is busy cutting
smaller cakes in halves, fer you can never
tell from the outside appearance whether
the cake is thoroughly well baked inside.
| We therefore test every one"
Now what is tho real difference L tween
wedding cake and Christmas plum
cakeY''
sit is generally in the ornamentation
The top CT a Christmas cake is coated with
sugar icing end picEed cut with oolors-
say rink-and there is also IN Inscription.
A Father Christmas stands in the center,
and there arc snlalIfancy ornaments around
the figure. Some, too, have holly on the
top, Lut people row and then prefer sweet
/ meats instead
And you scy that there is n great de-
/ mand for thenf"
I'VE send them all over the world. We
occasionally export CAKES and puddings to
people abroad sufficient to last them the
whole year round. They go to India, AT
RIGA China, Egypt-in fact, everywhere. a
new Years cake is similar to a Christmas
cake, with fancy decoration and figures.''
! DO you Erd that Twelfth cakes are de.
clining in popularity"
! well, perhaps we do not sell quite so
many. They Gre u you know decorated
with figures, and i sheet OF characters and
ccnundrums accom- panics each cake, &C.
coroing to the old custom. They are drawn
for"
( rs the plan still followed of embedding
various articles in the cakesn
! Yes, that is still done. People bring US
rings, ccirs ard buttcrs to put in the cal.e.
In TACT, NC have inciosed in the cake gold
watches and diamond rings But it has
generally been arranged beforehand where
they should cut for such prize--a little
rosetto or cololCd ribbon in the decoration
would lie u sufficient guide"
/ Conversation then turned upon school
cakes, which are as full of currants and
sultanas as can be desired. But for peo-
pie OF naturer years the fashion in cakes,
except en- festival occasions when the rule
may lie broken through, runs upon a light
er and most digestible cake Here in the
neat cardboard boxes are piles of Dundee
cakes, made of lUtteT, flour and ef,gs, and
better than dough cake of the schoolboy
kind. A Dundee cake has its due proper
ton of sultanas and peel, and it is rather
richer in quality than the popular Scotch
Madeira. There a-e other varieties of light
pound cakes, such as seed and almond, and
if the taste inclines to q heavier article
curlant cake in various degrees of richness
can be had, and it IS remarkable how con-
sentative Successive generations are in
their liking for good substantial cake.
Before Clancing ct few OF the astonish-
ing array CT Gelic2eies in the way Of biscuits,
attention is attracted to huge store Of
plum buildings. Each pudding is in its own
neat white basin and securely tied up in its
cloth.
"N'c are making 1900 this year" saws
the gentlemen who is acting as guide
through this palace of daintics ~ great
many are sent abroad. They are dispatched
in tin lined cases, sometimes thirty to forty
in Il case
"Dut can you tell me who it is who buys
your puddings5n
Regular customers come year after year,
for twenty or more at Il time, to give away
as Christmas presents. Most army officers,
ari those OF the navy, too, want buildings.
The puddings which are sent abroad are
not packed in basins, but in cloths, for they
travel better. The pnddings in these basins
are for home consumption. They are ready
boiled"
And are Of all si2cs?"
The largest pudding costs, say, ten gum
eas, and it would lie sufficient for 500 or COO
men. "-LouGon Telegraph.
Virtue in n Uupchback.
Some two or three years ago Il bunch
hack wall known nS ssTNpSf.p - II sod IN