"Wedding cake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... convention has prescribed as the cake for weddings; at any rate, swift, sudden delicacy of feeling prevented her explaining any more to him, for she saw how it was: his means were too humble for the approved kind of wedding cake! She was too young, too unskilled yet in the world's ways, to rise above her embarrassment; and so she stood blushing at him behind the counter, while he stood blushing at her in front ...
— Lady Baltimore • Owen Wister
... hope th' won't nobody think it's wicked t' mention r'ligion in connection with a cake); the bottom cake was baked in a milk-pan, an' it's a bride's cake, being made with the whites of fourteen perfec'ly fresh eggs; the next layer is fruit and spice, as rich as wedding cake ought to be; the top cake is best of all; and can be lifted right off and given to Rever'nd an' Mrs. Wesley Elliot.... I guess they'll like to keep the wedding couple for ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... her, if she tried to run away from him. At last it was told in Mousetown that Dick and Nan were to be married, and every body said, "What a grand pair they'll make." Judge Mouse, who married them, put on his best gold spectacles, and they were married on a big wedding cake, which some folks called a "cheese." Every one in Mousetown had a bit of it, and declared it to be the best wedding cake they had ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various
... from the Queen's ample wardrobe. A great deal of interesting fitting and altering was done, and in the end Madame had an ample trousseau. The Queen, with the help of Smith, made an immense and splendid wedding cake. ...
— The Island Mystery • George A. Birmingham
... Eclairs Chocolate Layer Cake Chocolate Torte Cinnamon Cake (Baking-Powder) Cocoanut Layer Cake Coffee Cake, German Coffee Cake, Quick Covered Cheese Cake Cream Layer Cake Cream Puffs Cup Cake Date Torte Dobos Torte Dominoes Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Cake Fruit or Wedding Cake Gold Cake Grafton Layer Cake Grafton Small Cake Green-tree Layer Cake and Icing German Hazelnut Torte Huckleberry Cake Jelly Roll Koenig Kuchen Lady Fingers Lemon Cake Linzer Torte Little French Cakes Loaf Cocoanut Cake Marble Cake Mocha Torte Nut Cake Nut Honey Cake One ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
... centre, and the spaces filled up with the smaller dishes, fruit, and flowers, taking care that the flavours and colours contrast nicely, and that no two dishes of a sort come together. This bill of fare may be made to answer three or four purposes, placing a wedding cake or christening cake in the centre on a high stand, if required for either of these occasions. A few dishes of fowls, lobster salads, &c. &c., should be kept in reserve to replenish those that are most likely to be eaten first. A joint of cold roast and boiled beef should be placed on the buffet, ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... like a wedding cake!" said she and laughed—but then, suddenly, there flooded back on her remembrance of the secret she must tell him before she left the tenement that afternoon. It sobered her. How would he take the news that she had not been content to wait ...
— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... dishes at the feast were served in a huge way, as befitted the table of giants: great beeves roasted whole, on platters as wide across as a ship's deck; plum puddings as fat as feather beds, with plums as big as footballs; and a wedding cake like a snow-capped hay mow. The giants ate enormously. But to Thor, because they thought him a dainty maiden, they served small bits of everything on a tiny gold dish. Now Thor's long journey had made him very hungry, and through ...
— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various
... start for the station, and had admired his silk hat and white gloves as the hack called for him before the rest of the family were ready. She had promised Katy and Gertie to bring them a lot of wedding cake and to remember every single thing to tell them, but especially to find out whether Marian was dressed properly as a bride should be in "something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue." Katy had discovered that this was absolutely necessary ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... the bridal party left the reception room, and retired to their private parlor, when the company soon after dispersed. Upon leaving the hotel the guests were supplied with wedding cake, over two thousand boxes being thus distributed. In a parlor adjoining that used for the reception ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton
... crinkly line drawn round the marriages to attract attention to that spot, and one was marked by a black frame with a large hand pointing at it from the margin. Thorny sent that; but the next week came a parcel for Mrs. Moss, and in it was discovered a box of wedding cake for every member of the family, including Sancho, who ate his at one gulp, and chewed up the lace paper which covered it. This was the third week; and, as if there could not be happiness enough crowded into it for Ben, the letter ...
— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott |
