CAKES. 137 
dough into strips of three fingers width, roll up these strips from 
one end to the other, and place the rolls on end in a buttered, 
high-rimmed form; cover it up with a warm cloth, and let it 
rise again; bake in a moderately hot oven for three-quarters 
of an hour. It takes a large form to bake the present quantity. 
This is a Cake of so rich a quality that the lines of good George 
Herbert, the Divine (1630), in The Church will not be out of 
place as associated therewith :— 
** What though some have a fraught 
Of cloves and nutmegs, and in cinnamon fail ? 
To be in both worlds full 
[s more than God was, who was hungry here. 
Would’st thou his laws of fasting disannul ? 
Enact good cheer ? 
Lay out thy joy, yet hope to save it ? 
Would st thou both eat thy cake, and have it ? 
In Jane Austen’s Emma (1816), old Mr. Woodhouse, the 
Malade Imaginaire, was sadly put out because of the rich 
wedding Cake, encrusted with sugar, and surmounted with 
luscious almond paste, finding high favour at, and after, the 
wedding of Miss Taylor to Mr. Weston. “ He earnestly tried 
to dissuade them from having any wedding Cake at all; and 
when that proved vain, he as earnestly tried to prevent anyone’s 
eating it. He had been at the pains of consulting Mr. Perry, 
the Apothecary, on the subject; who, when applied to, could 
not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias 
of his inclination) that wedding Cake might certainly disagree 
with many, perhaps with most people, unless taken moderately.” 
There was, nevertheless, a strange rumour in Highbury that all 
the little Perrys had been seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston’s 
wedding Cake in their hands, but Mr. Woodhouse would never 
believe it. : 
Calverley, when at the school of a Doctor Crabb, -with his 
playmate Tommy, had the following experience (Gemini et 
Virgo) :— 
‘* We did much as we chose to do; 
We'd never heard of Mrs. Grundy. 
All the theology we knew 
Was that we might’nt play on Sunday ; 
And all the general truths,—that cakes 
Were to be bought at four a penny, 
And that excruciating aches 
Resulted if we ate too many.” 
