Show X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Z X XO Trace race Wedding Cake to Old Roman Custom The Tile wedding cake cage is ib believed helleved to bethe hethe he be hethe the survival of or an ol old Roman Roulan practice when the bride und and groom glOom not only ate together to r as a sign of or their kinship and mutual love lo but feasted the guests as os well At this flits time It was good etiquette to bieak breal the cake over o the brides bride's head as fiS a sign of plead plent- In the marriage e ceremonies of the tile early curly Anglo Saxons Anglo hll tinge huge C basl has bas l ts of dry crackers cracker's were were employed eel After the feast each guest took a n cracker home wit with h him and the clue remainder re re- remainder was distributed to the poor Tater Later it became the custom for the guests themselves to tu bring to the wedding wedding wed wed- ding small richly spiced buns huns which were piled plied In one huge c mound on the I table tallie It U a Lt common occurrence I for the bride and und groom to attempt to tn kiss each other over this mound and I If It the they succeeded they were ere ns assured lifelong prosperity It Is Is said sold the wed wedding cake cuke of tO today Is due to the genius of a n French cook who while traveling In England observed the Inconvenience In convenience of stacking hundreds ds of or these small cakes cales In a n mound anti and conceived conceived con con- the Idea of at cementing the mound Into u a single huge cake cuke with Icing A At t the wedding ing feast It was the dut duty of the newl newly red married man finn manto to 0 wait on his bride at ut the table whence heme canine came the name bridegroom bridegroom- 1 signifying one who serves cs the bride |