CARDBOARD WEDDING CAKE, 1943During the Second World War sugar was rationed. Wedding cakes topped withicing were hard to come by so imitation cakes were often used. 'The biggest surprise at our wedding reception was this beautiful cake which had beenmade by a member of of our church who was a baker. But of course theastounding thing was that when it came to cutting the cake he just liftedoff the the whole of the outside. The whole thing was cardboard. It lookedlike a nice cake but it wasn't.' Joan Matthews
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