Princess Louise
Posted on 04/16/2009 11:39:04 AM PDT by F15Eagle
LONDON – Would you pay 145 pounds ($215) for a slice of very stale cake?
That's what an antiques fair in Birmingham hopes to earn Thursday when people bid for the remnant from one of Britain's most controversial royal weddings.
The cake is thought to be the only surviving item from the 1871 wedding of Queen Victoria's fourth daughter, Princess Louise, to the Marquis of Lorne.
It went on sale for 145 pounds ($215) Thursday at the Antiques for Everyone fair in Birmingham. The seller is antiques dealer John Shepherd. He bought the slice from a private seller who is a descendant of a noble family from Kent.
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Some cake for Elaine?
Dont leave it around Elaine Benes.
Stale cake? really?? hahahahahahahahahahahaha
How Was something LIKE THIS preserved in 1871?
Princess Louise
You guys beat me to it.
> How Was something LIKE THIS preserved in 1871?
Rum. Lots and lots of rum. And sugar. And molasses. I dunno how you Yanks make wedding cakes, but in Britain and her former colonies wedding cakes were made out of fruit cake — usually dark fruit cake, like what Christmas cakes are made out of.
Sugar is a great preservative, as you can see from jams and jellies and the like. Candied fruit — such as you find in a wedding cake — is nothing more than lots and lots and lots of sugar added to fruit: it keeps forever.
Molasses too — what makes “dark” fruit cakes dark — is basically a crude form of sugar that is used in the manufacture of Rum. It, too, keeps forever.
My wife and I still have the top tier of our wedding cake. Current plan is to consume it on our fiftieth anniversary. My grandparents did the same on their fiftieth anniversary, and the cake was just fine.
It was kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnell’s porch since 11 a.m. that day .... (old Johnny Carson/Ed McMahon joke)
If she had a Twinkie...it would still be as fresh as the day it was made.
I used to think that ... had a couple boxes I bought in 1993 - like 12 packs each ‘cuz they were on sale.
First box was used the first month.
Next month I went to open the second box ...
... 12 little completely furry green packages ... all of them and all completely covered ... not a spot of yellow to be seen
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