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Description: | From the 1930s cakes became much more important to the business of Huntley & Palmers. In addition to their standard cakes, such as the New Era slab cake, Huntley & Palmers produced wedding cakes for many famous people and royalty. The employees who iced the cakes were highly skilled craftsmen and many spent their whole working lives icing cakes at Huntley & Palmers. It was also standard practice for employees of the company to be given a wedding cake on the occasion of their marriage. This booklet includes the Savoy wedding cake that weighed 9lb and cost 9 guineas down to the Langham cake that weighed 7lb and cost one pound and 5 shillings. The company loaned electro-plated stands and knives for a small charge to customers. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | cake social history trade royalty advertising George V domestic | Temporal: | start=1930-01-01; end=1940-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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