FETING THE CRESCENT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3807, 11 September 1936, Page 3

FETING THE CRESCENT

BAKERS’ FESTIVAL IN HUNGARY. The Hungarian bakers are preparing to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the bread crescent, or Viennese “Kipfel,” known In Hungary as “kifli,” writes the Budapest correspondent of the London Observer. In September a memorial to the crescent will be unveiled by the International Bakers’ Association, and three thousand foreign bakers are expected to take part in the festival. At the same time a bakers’ congress will take place, and a bakers’ and confectioners’ exhibition will be opened, while the Hungarian Bakers’ As sociation will fete its thirtieth anni versary. One of the attractions of the festival will be a crescent of bread weighing a hundredweight, which will be dragged though the streets of Budapest on a car pulled by six horses, end accompanied by white capped baker boys and girls in Hungarian costume, who will throw crescents to the children in the crowd. After the procession the giant crescent will be presented to the lord mayor, who will distribute it among the poor who feed at the people’s kitchens.