ERSATZ ICING

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 17

ERSATZ ICING

MASKED WEDDING CAKES

In spite of the icing sugar ban which has just come into force in Britain, wartime brides will still have wedding cakes which appear to.be covered in sugar-icing, writes an overseas correspondent. When London confectioners have sold out their iced wedding cakes in stock, "substitute" cakes will be available. These "substitutes" are to take the form of sugar or white cardboard "masks," to be made in a number of sizes and to fit over ordinary fruit, cakes. Different confectioners will' make different kinds of "masks," which will be loaned free of charge to a bride who orders a cake. FALSE FRONT. The first wedding cake made under the new regulations by one of the

[famous London confectioners looked j uncommonly like the real thing. It I was built up in tiers supported by the traditional white pillars. These were j not made of sugar, but I was assured that the cake's ingredients are as rich and as full of almond paste as ever. Snow white tissue paper covered the cake, which was decorated with wreaths of silver orange blossoms, for-get-me-nots,' pink daisies, Easter lilies, and maidenhair fern. What more could a bride wish for? The chef responsible for this work of art was fairly confident of her answer. And he and his predecessors have been specialising in ceremonial confectionery for 150 years.

The monthly meeting of the committee of , the District Nursing Guild of St. John, presided over by Mrs. E. Osborn, was held recently in .the guild rooms. Much routine business was disposed of. Sister Collins's report was received and adopted. The committee's thanks were extended to many generous donors of gifts in kind and money., . . ,