The morning times., 1896-04-05
Hugh Mass Of Sweet Already
Prepared for the Wedding
Soon to Occur.

Tue little bird that flies over the steeples,
chirpiug tidings down the fireplaces, tells
with loud notes or the marvellous WEDDING
cake ordered for the Harrison Duptials, TO
take place tomorrow 10 church. There will
bc gathering or friends, lev and great
before or after, and there will figure the
wedding cake that is causing the bird or
gossip so much noisy comment
This cake. runs the tale, was made last
autumn II was part OF the fan baking
which wecding-cake makers keep always
on hand Af.er being made, it was
wrapped up and put away to wait for the
order of a coed customer. 1t takes several
months 10 season a good cake afteT II Is
bak aked, hence it is that the baking OF the
autumn is prime now.
THIS CAKE Is made into a pyramid. The
pyramid is accomplished by piling one cake
on top of another until the top layer is
little cake the size of dinner plate. The
bottom Cne in this case is as big as cart
wheel. Icing is then put over the pyramid
until it looks like a large white round
mound OF snow driftcd TO the top or
hillock.
The cost OF a cake like this is either
sixty or seventy cents pound. III you want
to pay the latter price you can. Nothing
is made any better than the best wedding
cake, and though you be king or queen
ex-President, or alderman. you can get
no better. There are ratsiBs, currants,
flour and spices, and plenty OF cItron
and phlrns, and further than that il is
Impossible to go. If you put other things
into a CAKE ii ceases to be wedding cake.
IL NAV De offset With angel food, or served
With nut and cream cakes Thanking II, but
a Wedd ing cake is tue same the world over
The bird that does the talking about the
Harrison wedding cake says il cost about
$3.50. and that it is suTmounted with a
wedding bell and is profusely trimmed
with scrolls and flowers done in paste. The
flowers are not TO eat, but the scrollwOTk
is, and the good caterer who places the
cake in the box, after the bride has stuck
a carving kuife into it, knows that each box
must have a corner OF tue sugared rim r
scroll TO be complete
The wedding cake industry is one that
wages unnaggIngiy all the year 1t Is ap-
parently busiest in the autumn when the
cakes are baked Then great pans, rang
| ing "a size from n cart wheel down TO
dishpan aud size smaller, arc filled with
| the dough and slid into big ovens to bake
and bake until the traditional straw that is
run into them comes up as hot and as dry
as burnt bruomcOru. Then the cakes are
done.
| They are taken out Of the oven, wrapped
| up in tissue nd cloth, and set away by men
! and maids 10 get spicy. This is when the
| spices get all through the flour and fruit,
| so that all tastes alike, whether it be
bit or dough or the choicest mOTsel OF
citron in the mixture. All is richness and
! spiciness.
| When a cakeis ordered the bride or groom
| selects the size. TIE commOnest one is
| four-pound cake. This is as large as
| dinner plate. IL doesn't sound very large
| for wedding cake: but this is the avera ge
! cake, and the average bride can az
| ford no more. The cost is about
! so cents a pound or $3.50 for the
! cake, and then comes the icing and trim
| ming The icing costs dollar or so, and
| ma keS the cake look twice as big and the
| trimming actually sTelIs it into grandeur
| The ornament ON top, which is part Of the
| wedding cake OF today, II a matter of Sc
| lection. For $40 you can get very fine
| little Cupid, with au anvil in his hands.
! He pounds upon q sugar weddinG-bell, with
[ the result that musical instrument hidden
| in its sugared depths begins to play the
| Loheugrin march. and follows it up with
| the popular airs of the day. One OF these
was just made for New York wedding
As a wedding cake, like the bicycle of
| DAISY Bell 1dlIle, is Dulft Tor Two, I0e Cfud-
| ments have dual consideration You see
/ a bride aud bride groom in front OF Cupid
| parS0n. The bride wears real silk and
| tulle, but the bridegroom is Of black sugar
/ paste. Again, you see a very beautiful
| pair OF hearts. Joined by an arrow shot
| from the bow of smiling Cupid. who hangs
| himself up nearby to watch results.
| The cost Of very small OrGa Tnentis $3.50.
| And this is not so tiny either. It will tower
| above the cake six inches and spread out
| in most attractive array.
| Ornaments ordered by people with a lit
| tie money to spend stands three feet high.
! The most popular is bell with Marriage
| upon it and fire sugar clapper. The bell
| is gorgeously trimmed with sugar flowers,
| and from all directions come Cupids and
birds OF sugar to attend the first chimes.
| A cake two feet high, with all this upon
| it, can be found for $25, with each sugar
| plum warranted real. And this price is
| low when you consider that a few years
| ago tue Ornament was the heaviest cost
| of the marriage feast, and the obstacle
| over which the brides father hung with per-
| sistent reluctance.
| Many OF the fashionable weddings Of
| Easter, notably Of Washington aud New
| York. will have a cake decorated with
wedding c0lors. Suppose this to be pink.
| The cake is baked and iced and placed