Bride Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Make gum paste according to the directions provided.
Dust moulds with starch powder using a cloth.
Roll out the paste on a marble slab and press it into the moulds.
Cut off excess paste with a smooth sharp knife.
Remove borders for the bottom of the cake and place them on a board.
If borders stick, add a bit of gum paste to help release them.
Use a camel-hair pencil dipped in thin gum water to attach borders to the cake.
Repeat with different patterns for the top and sides of the cake.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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