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Article: The wedding cake
- Article from:
- The Malay Mail
- Article date:
- June 27, 2006
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WHEN my son and daughter-in-law held a knife and cut the first
slice out of their all traditional, butter-cream frosted, lavish, and
very expensive wedding cake, I couldn't help smiling.
If we had been in the early Roman times, the wedding cake would
not be one huge, tasty, decorative creation, but many small, possibly
cupcake-sized, salty wheat cakes.
In addition, the guests wouldn't be eating the cakes but throwing
them at the bride or crumbling it over her head for fertility and
single women would try to catch the crumbs for the same reason they
catch the bridal bouquet today.
In olden times, when children didn't make it to adulthood due to
childhood illnesses, fertility was important, ...