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Show BRIDE'S CAKE 18 ROMAN. It Used to Be Broken Over Her Head After the Ceremony. The custom of having a special cake-at cake-at weddings camo from tho Homans This cake, or rathor biscuit, signified frultfulncss, hospitality and prosperity. prosperi-ty. Tho rlco that was showered on a brldo had a similar meaning. For many 'centuries after tho ItO' mans lift England, tho custom was to break tho biscuit over the bride's head, and then tho fragments wero picked up and piled before her for dlstrlbu tlon to her friends, At tho restoration Charles II returned re-turned with a small army of French cooks, who speedily converted tho ancient an-cient biscuit Into a delicious piece of confectionery, iced It with sugar and gradually adorned It with cmbleuiatl' cal dovlccs, till It towered Into the amazing structuro which the luxury of later times has dovcloped. Stray Stories. |