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Updated: June 26, 2025
I went over all his haunts two years ago, and have commemorated them in the book you will see by and by, the book that is to be, and there I have put on record the bride-cake, and the finding by you on my table your own edition of Motherwell. You are not angry, are you?
It comes from the Germans, who drank mead, or metheglin a beverage made of honey for thirty days after the wedding. The bride-cake is no longer cut and served at weddings; the present of cake in boxes has superseded that. At the wedding breakfast the ices are now packed in fancy boxes, which bear nuptial mottoes and orange-blossoms and violets on their surfaces.
'Tis Canon Keppel, brother to Lord Albemarle; and mark you, Kitty the Honourable Mrs Keppel has the right to be presented where Miss Laura might knock at the door in vain! We come up in the world, child; but the Walpoles had always that secret. 'Twill set the other charming daughters dreaming of bride-cake. All the world talks of Maria, a shining beauty indeed.
He was confused by the circumstance that the right forefinger of the One old man seemed to dip itself in one of the threads of fire, light itself, and make a fiery start in the air, as it pointed somewhere. Having pointed somewhere, it went out. 'You know she was a Bride, said the old man. 'I know they still send up Bride-cake, Mr. Goodchild faltered. 'This is a very oppressive air.
Then, in presence of her father or guardian and proper witnesses, the pair went through a formula of words as given them by the officiating priest. On the completion of this part of the ceremony, the company partook of a cake made of flour, salt, and water. This was the original "bride-cake."
The settlement of the question of The One old man and The Two old men was thus presently complicated, and soon made quite impracticable. Mr. Idle said it was all Bride-cake, and fragments, newly arranged, of things seen and thought about in the day. Mr. Goodchild said how could that be, when he hadn't been asleep, and what right could Mr. Idle have to say so, who had been asleep? Mr.
Fawley's aunt being a baker she made him a bride-cake, saying bitterly that it was the last thing she could do for him, poor silly fellow; and that it would have been far better if, instead of his living to trouble her, he had gone underground years before with his father and mother.
Equal gayety reigned within doors, where a large party of friends were entertained. Every one laughed at his own pleasantry, without attending to that of his neighbours. Loads of bride-cake were distributed.
'She's such a con-founded Idiot, muttered Tackleton, 'that I was afraid she'd never comprehend me. Ah, Bertha! Married! Church, parson, clerk, beadle, glass-coach, bells, breakfast, bride-cake, favours, marrow-bones, cleavers, and all the rest of the tomfoolery. A wedding, you know; a wedding. Don't you know what a wedding is? 'I know, replied the Blind Girl, in a gentle tone. 'I understand!
We admonished her that she had not seen the whole of slavery. A very interesting coincidence happened to us the next day. We took tea at Rev. Mr. 's. A splendid bride-cake adorned the table. As Hattie was admiring the ornaments on the cake, the lady of the clergyman smiled and said, "This is from a colored wedding."
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