Marriage ceremonial

Useful details about the etiquette of both civil and religious marriages in the 1880s (none of which I'm actually using, at the moment anyway):
Le contrat / Le mariage religieux


( the signing of the contract )

The invitations to the religious ceremony are sent out the day after the signing of the contract.

( the bridal Mass )

Steamed chocolate cake

While trying to eke out my bag of sugar, I experimented with a wartime economy cake, made with '1 breakfast cup' (I used an ordinary mug) of flour and of milk, 1½ tablespoons of sugar, and two ounces of fat melted with two tablespoons of golden syrup (presumably cheaper than refined white sugar, plus a substitute for the missing egg). The raising agent is bicarb and vinegar, but it didn't rise all that much -- I don't know if that was my failure to compensate for a lack of self-raising flour, or a design feature. My one-egg sponge cake from the same book didn't rise all that well either. [Edit: although apparently that was actually due to using the wrong size cake tin!]



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