Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-06-21

he can concentrate his attention upon
one rather small downtown bakeshop
and learn there everything there is TO
! he learned on the subject
The proprietor of that shop is chock~
! FIJI of wedding cake lore. He divides;
his cakes into classes. first according
to nationality. This Is not hard 10 do.
FOR. while q wedding cake is i wedding
cake the world over, it is run off in
many different editions, and the archi-
lecture OF the more pretentious ones is
Frequently modelled after famous edi-
fees in the fatherlsnd and doctored up
with ingredients that give the whole
CONNECTION a decidedly national tang
For example. there are Russian towers
Turkish minarets and Gothic facades
and quadrangles done in sugar and
all favored with a.peculiar essense that
tells the initiated to what land TIE
brides family belongs.
The largest wedding cakes turned out
in that particular shop are those builf
in Russian style. The designs therein
employed call for generous proportions.
and by the time the various sections of
the cake have been joined together the
whole is thing at which TO marvel.
When YOU bake cakes of unusual
size and shape, who is responsible for
the designs" asked a visitor who had
baen admiring one such gigantic pro-
duct Of the bakers skill.
Sometimes / study them out for N.Y.
self, sometimes the wedding party Of
fers suggestions. prefer TO do AN the
planning myself however. for. If I do
say Ii. / know how to put up an artis-
tic cake. at least so far as external an
pearances go. On the other hand. my
customers ideas on the subject are Of
ten perfectly crazy. and If l try TO fol-
low their instructions | am sure To
turn out 4 real freak in confectionery
ana that Is always painful 10 profess
sional pride
1t IS At other peoples suggestions
TOO, that ! mix in all the sentimental
SincI cks with which | sometimes
spoil an otherwise good cake. Being
an o!G hand a the business, | know
what liberties can be properly taken
Wlih the internal arrangement OF
"cu'IhS cake, 50. of course. | always
attehd TO the rings and china dolls and
ne olher conventional supernuities:
put, II you ever get hold of a piece Of
cake baked at this shop and break your
teeth on an old coin or a queer charm
u.
res, assured that I am not responsible
for The accident. The customer order
ca the thing put IN. Those anuIa,s
and heirloom ar7r a part 81 his sune,
clifton. "
Just because man has emigrated
20 New York and settled down in tbis
inatter-of-fact city is no sign thar he
has left his fourteenth century sI,re,-
stitions in the old country. The chances
are that he did not. or even if he aid
mas wife is pretty sure to hold onto
taen' and as a number of these absurd
tanc!e' are centered in i wedding al
am bound TO humor their vbin,s
Wnen mixing the batter. Many of iii
cIass rave their queer beliefs So doc
~ in2rdined that they make their o,t.,
likes. However. il they have not the
iAollities FOR baking. they are Obliged
20 IhtsGst TO the slcrilegious hanGs of
:. mere baker. in which case they como
'I'"h mere in bunch 10 superintend I!
'he mixing process. They do that he !
"uHf AT a particular poin: i'm the nro-
: tc"iiiSS II Is desirable TO perform cor ]
,'ih curious iAcantations. Those out-
i%'hulSh signs and gibberish arc SIM
posed 10 bestow upon the cake certain
virtues that Will be impaired to all Who
eat Of it. and the bride would rather
i've an OLD maid to the end of the chan
ter than omit these queer Observance
Naturally / don't approve OF any sucb 3
and ii gets dreadfully on
the nerves of my men to have all those
outsiders dawdling around dronine
ana whining while they are at worL
d'i''S eggs and Dreaming butter and
-uE''i- nut since wedding cake is
quite an expensive luxury. / can AFFORD
70 grant a few concessions to the waat-
ness Of the purcbosare., - On
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