Today is Comestibles’ first anniversary, so what better corner of food history to explore than that of the birthday cake. People have been celebrating holidays with special baked goods for thousands of years, but the white fluffy birthday cake with sweet icing we associate with every child’s party is a fairly modern invention. It could [...]
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A Brief History of the Birthday Cake
Posted in Festival Cooking, Food History, recipes, Traditional Foodways, tagged birthday cake, blogoversary, Food History, history of the birthday cake, victorian birthday cake on August 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
