Decorated Cake Center-Piece

Ingredients

• the lower cake was made by the recipe No. 836
• the upper was a white citron cake
• a long and slender vine of Virginia creeper
• sugar icing

Method

1. 1

   The lower cake is made according to recipe No.

2. 2

   836, and the upper cake is a white citron cake.

3. 3

   Decorate the top with a vine of Virginia creeper and sugar icing.

4. 4

   Assemble the cakes without breaking the ornamentation.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 345. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

The lower cake was made by the recipe No. 836, the upper was a white citron cake. Over the top of the pyramid, which was all pure white and lace-like, was thrown a long and slender vine of Virginia creeper, much handsomer than smilax because of the finely tapering grada- tions of the leaf sizes, and these were just turned to vivid colors by the touch of the first October frost.*) This is a pic- ture of the cake that was made and ornamented in haste and under difficul- ties for the wedding of the banker's daugh- ter, as hurriedly sketched at No. 941. It took about four hours of a summer night to put up ^lj>^ those ornaments C}),ti in su£far icing". There were, of course, more people concerned in that wedding than it was business of mine to men- tion at such a hard-working time, and among them was the young lady's father, the banker himself; and when the table was set and the time was right to bring along the wedding presents he walked up and * [That was perhaps the happiest period of General Grant's life. He was spending a week with his family and officers of his staff and their wives at the Manitou House, Manitou Sprint^s, Colorado. He loved that locality, this was his third visit to it; it was in the third year of his first term as President, an office of which he was w ary and he deliijhted the people of Manitou villag-e by declaring^ his intention of returning- and making- his home there when his term was ended. He went around the world after that and after all he visited Manitou once more, though only for u day, when on his way to Leadville, where he had thought of investing in the mines.] COOKING FOR PROFIT. 195 Decorated Cake Center- Piec

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.