Show A FAMOUS BAKERY bow the collands Bol Dol landa lands became cabi for the royal koyal family in one of tho the old buildings which bear tho the architectural imprint of queen annes time in chester england is a bakeshop not an ordinary bakeshop for the royal arms jut jat out from the secand story and immediately above is a sign eign bearing the name bollands and the proximity of the sign to the royal arms is no idle commercial myth to new customers in the abo annals of tho the of chester there never was a greater man than richard bolland the original owner of the bakeshop in 1836 the duchess of kent and her young daughter the princess victoria visited the city for the purpose of officially ope opening a new bridge that was to bring all kinds of importance and prosperity to the town of course it was an imme immense anso event for chester and every one did something to make the visit of the great gnat folks memorable richard bolland was ambitious but bat poor poo r and he churned his brains mightily to devise some attractive method of showing his bis loyal appreciation of the visit in a happy moment ho he decided to make majko some small cakes of transcendent excellence put them in a fatic fancy box bos and present them to the young princess happy thought potent cakes 1 great Bal ballands landl the next year the little princess whose palate had bad been enchanted by the flavor oi 01 the chester cakes became queen of england and one of the first nets acts after her accession in 1837 was the appointment of bolland as ono one of the queens warrant holders so much for the power of a box of small email cakes how long the flavor of those cakes lingered in the royal memory is shown by the fact that 25 years later when the prince of wales was to be married victoria gave a commission to bolland to prepare the wedding cake for that great event it was no ordinary wedding cake that mr bolland produced either and its exhibition earned him such tremendous fame that every english bride of wealth and prominence who has married since then has had the chester baker prepare her wedding sake ake descendants of the original bolland now conduct the shop but they use tho tha same game recipe that proved so successful in the daya of victorias childhood and still bake cakes for the royal family philadelphia press |