Cooking for profit

The engraving on the preceding page shows the design of cake decorated in the Grecian style that once came under the powerful protection of no less a person than General Grant, whose interference prolonged its existence at least two days. The hand that was extended to make a breach in the upper works was Mrs. Grant's. That serene lady would have broken off one of the white birds which were hovering in the act of sipping the crimson jelly in the glasses. The general put his hand on hers and pushed it aside saying: "Don't break that." " I want to try the confectionery,"said the lady. " There is plenty without — don't break it — ," said he again ; and it was saved to appear again next day with sections cut out of both the lower cake and the upper one on two sides, the cake sliced and part of the slices replaced, and all was done without breaking the ornamentation, which requires but a small foundation to stand upon. The lower cake was made by the recipe No. 836, the upper was a white citron cake. Over the top of the pyramid, which was all pure white and lace-like, was thrown a long and slender vine of Virginia creeper, much handsomer than smilax because of the finely tapering gradations of the leaf sizes, and these were just turned to vivid colors by the touch of the first October frost.*) This is a picture of the cake that was made and ornamented in haste and under difficulties for the wedding of the banker's daughter, as hurriedly sketched at No. 941. It took about four hours of a summer night to put up those ornaments in sugar icing". There were, of course, more people concerned in that wedding than it was business of mine to mention at such a hard-working time, and among them was the young lady's father, the banker himself; and when the table was set and the time was right to bring along the wedding presents he walked up and * [That was perhaps the happiest period of General Grant's life. He was spending a week with his family and officers of his staff and their wives at the Manitou House, Manitou Springs, Colorado. He loved that locality, this was his third visit to it; it was in the third year of his first term as President, an office of which he was w ary and he delighted the people of Manitou villag-e by declaring^ his intention of returning- and making- his home there when his term was ended. He went around the world after that and after all he visited Manitou once more, though only for u day, when on his way to Leadville, where he had thought of investing in the mines.] Decorated Cake Center- Piece on a Silver Dish. Height about sYift. Served at a private supper tendered to General U. S. Grant by Governor Tabor at Leadville, Colo. The baskets and spaces filled up with a various assortment of the lightest Italian cakes, macaroons, meringues, and bon-bons and the whole festooned with smilax. took out of his breast pocket the title deed to a forty-thousand-dollar house and lot in Lakeport, made out in his daughter's name; he rolled up the document and placed it under the lid of the basket and left it there. The hostess put into the basket on top a silver thimble and the host put in a gold pencil case, then the children climbed on chairs and filled the basket and all the spaces with white flowers