Wedding Cake Use
Eating a sweet dish to celebrate a happy occasion is a custom that goes back before recorded history. The Romans were the first to bake cakes exclusively for weddings, but their manner of serving was very different from outs. After a lavish Roman wedding dinner, a large cake was brought out and shown to the wedding guests. Then after everyone had seen and admired it, the father of the bride would pick it up and bang it down over the bride’s head, causing it to break into many pieces. The small bits of cake symbolized fruitfulness, and were then distributed to the guests.
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The early Anglo-Saxons served wedding cakes too, but the cakes were brought by the wedding guests, and not served by the host. It was customary for each wedding guest to bring a small cake to the feast. When the cakes were all piled one on top of each other, they formed a small mountain of cake. The bride and groom then kissed over this mound of sweetness, and were supposed to be assured happiness for life.
One day, a visiting French cook saw the mound of cakes at a wedding and conceived the idea of cementing the entire thing together with icing then cutting slices out of it. The next major culinary step was to bake cakes in large layers and frosting them together.
Wedding cakes are traditionally white; not only because white stands for purity in western cultures, but also because white traditionally symbolizes joy in ancient times. On the other hand, the flowers, or any kind of floral device used to decorate cakes are symbols of fruitfulness; a wish on the part of all present for the forthcoming union to be fruitful. A groom’s cake is popular at the wedding, too. It is usually either a chocolate cake or a fruit cake.
Traditionally, the bride cuts the first piece of cake. Anyone else doing so would supposedly be “cutting” into her future happiness.
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