BREAD 3000 YEARS OLD

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 5

BREAD 3000 YEARS OLD

Eating of Ancient Fare :■ .. . '■ ■■■;. ■ A wedding cake 64 years old, tliat has 'outlived, by many years the bride for ‘whom it was made, is to find a resting place in the State Museum of Missouri. That is probably the best place for it, yet it might. have been eaten with relish if an American precedent of some years ago had been followed. Ait a golden-wed-ding banquet at Hollywood, a cake 50 years old was eaten and enjoyed by a company that- included the couple for whose marriage it had been prepared. The record in the eating of ancient fare is ’ probably held by the Brussells antiquary who, some years before the war, invited several of his colleagues to a remarkable feast. The bread at this banquet was made from wheat found 1 in one of the Pyramids, and believed to be 3000 years old. It was spread with butter made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth —at least, so it is said in the “AlanChester Guardian.” The wine served was centuries old, and had been recovered fpom a vault in Corinth. Included in the bill of fare, too, were apples that had been found among the ruins of Pompeii. .Some members of the Zoological Society of Ireland once had the temerity to sample eggs that had been brought from China 50 years previously, and iwere found to be quite good and of a delicate flavour —in parts. There is the instance, too, of the members of the Leeds municipal museum who ate with satisfaction a quantity of tinned food that had been taken out by Sir John Franklin on his first expedition in 1845 in search of the North-West Passage, and recovered by one of the unsuccessful rescue parties.