Cakes and Characters
Subtitle: An English Christmas Tradition
Publisher: Prospect Books
Published: November 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780907325215
Subjects: Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft; Customs; England; Manners And Customs
Description: Describes the development, flowering, and decline of celebrations at Twelfth Day that involved an elaborately decorated cake and a lighthearted game of chance. This lost English custom flourished in the first part of the nineteenth century and was chronicled by Dickens, Thackeray, and others. Includes recipes.