OLD WEDDING CAKE
KEPT FOR TWENTY-FINE YEARS
A d<n tor writing in the British .Medical Journal, coutri luites an m-i.ei\-siiug Id ter w hich iMust rules I lie keeping properties of Wedding cake.
ile .-.ays : - 1 recently celebrated mv silver w< liding. My wife and lamily and 1 partook of small portions from a slice of the- original wedding cake, which I had put 111 a tin go years ago tlie lid in which I sol-h-red up. Except for a slight ly murid taste and odour, it was in wonderful preservation. and sr.ill retained the ordinary llavoiir of such cake. Curiously enutiL.h. no part of Hie tin's contents wen* recognisable as sugar icing or almond.
l- i add that tin* Lister ! m.'-Li-tiiti: iva.s eood 4>uoiinr|i In report on it .before we tasted it. It was; baeteriolooically sterile, apparently. Not one of us was upset by the small portions r,e consumed. I possess another tin villi ;; i jet e of 11 1 - “ same original cake. The intmdioii is to keep, it in case a •' •■eddino anniversary is ever reached.” ■ ■ •
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 3
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178OLD WEDDING CAKE Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 3
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