Cake was shored up
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) CARDIFF (Wales) Dec. 29. An engineer was called into to help cook Josephine Doherty’s wedding cake. She wanted a 20-tier cake, 16 feet high, and weighing 5041 b.
The baker, Don Job, was worried about subsidence, so he asked an engineer, John Ellis, for help. The cake was finally supported with wooden plugs and held in place with ribbons.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33112, 30 December 1972, Page 6
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