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• Ancient Egypt was home to the world’s first large-scale bakeries, which were the first to use yeast to make cakes rise before baking them on hot stones. To the ancient Romans, cake meant a small bread, as there was no sugar, and honey was an expensive commodity.

• Cake-baking underwent a dramatic change in the mid-1800s. Previously, yeast was used as a leavening agent, but yeast was replaced with the introduction of baking soda and baking powder, both of which are greater raising agents.

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CAKE (continued): • Order up tiramisu for dessert, and you’ll receive layers of ladyfingers soaked in espresso liqueur and layered with a custard mixture, topped with chocolate shavings. Ladyfingers, light sweet sponge cakes about four inches long, have been around since the late 1400s, when they were created to celebrate a visit of the King of France to Italy. They are also used in trifles, a layered dessert that incorporates cake, jam, custard, fruit and whipped cream. The trifle is served in a clear glass bowl so that all the beautiful layers can be seen.

• Bundt cakes have been around since 1950, when the fluted tubular pan was created by the founder of the kitchenware manufacturer Nordic. A group of Jewish women in Minneapolis approached David Dahlquist, asking him to design a pan based on an old European kugelhopf mold brought from the old country. The name “Bundt” was derived from the German word bund, which translates “community” or “gathering of people.”

• German chocolate cake, that rich chocolate layer cake with coconut pecan filling topped with chocolate frosting and more coconut, has nothing to do with Germany or its inhabitants.

Back in 1852, an employee of the Walter Baker chocolate company developed a milder, sweeter baking chocolate than the bittersweet chocolate that was commonly used. That employee, an Englishman, was named Sam German, and the Baker company named the invention after him.

• Do you know where the pound cake gets its name? Developed in England during the 1700s, the recipe called for a pound each of butter, eggs, flour and sugar. Maybe it could also mean how much you’ll gain from eating this delicious confection!

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• A dome-shaped cake filled with mousse and/or custard is known as a bombe, from the French word meaning domed or rounded. The cake is flipped from its dome-shaped mold onto a plate, then covered with a layer of chocolate or meringue.

• What’s full of spices, frequently “re-gifted” and the subject of comedians’ jokes? That’s right, a fruitcake! Although this dense cake dates back to Roman times, its popularity increased greatly in the 1800s, when it became the preferred choice at Christmas gatherings and weddings.

Loaded with glazed dried fruit, raisins and nuts, fruitcakes are often soaked in brandy, whiskey or liqueur.

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• When Charles and Diana wed in 1981, they had 27 wedding cakes. Their official wedding cake was prepared by the head baker of the Naval Armed Forces, a process that took 14 weeks.

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CAKE (continued):

• A roulade is what most of us know as a jelly roll, a sponge cake that is filled with buttercream, fruit, lemon curd, whipped cream or ganache, then rolled up. At Christmas, you might see a Buche de Noel, or Yule Log, a roulade filled with chocolate buttercream and frosted with yet more chocolate, then decorated with chocolate branches to resemble a tree log.

• In 1832, Prince Metternich of Austria was expecting important guests for dinner and gave his head chef the task of creating something new and sumptuous for dessert. The only trouble was that the chef was sick, leaving a 16-year-old apprentice in charge.

Young Franz Sacher set to work inventing a chocolate sponge cake cut into three layers, filled with apricot jam and frosted with a rich icing. The dessert became known as Sachertorte and endures today as Vienna’s most famous specialty, with its recipe a safely guarded secret.

• A 1906 romance novel was the source of the name of the lady Baltimore cake. The story, set in postCivil War Charleston, mentioned the title character serving the dessert, a creation of tall white cake layers with a filling of chopped nuts and candied fruits, frosted with boiled white icing. The actual recipe was developed by two Baltimore women who opened a tea room after the success of the novel.

These days, this cake is a popular one for Southern weddings.

• Another Southern custom is the Groom’s Cake, a separate wedding cake traditionally served to unmarried women attending the wedding. This confection, much smaller than the regular wedding cake, is taken home and placed under the lady’s pillow, with the hope that she’ll dream of her future husband.

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• The idea of an undersea tunnel between England and France was conceived as early as 1802. A French mining engineer envisioned a passageway lit by oil lamps and serviced by horse-drawn coaches. The proposal included an artificial island midway as a stop for changing horses. Several plans were presented over the next several decades, but it wasn’t until 1988 that the actual excavation began.

• Construction commenced in 1988 and concluded in 1994. Three of those years were devoted to the actual boring of the chalky earth beneath the sea. The boring machines spanned the length of two football fields and could bore 250 feet a day. There are actually three tunnels, two of which are full-sized, large enough to accommodate rail traffic. Between these two train tunnels is a service tunnel, a smaller tube that is an emergency escape route. During the peak of construction, 15,000 workers were employed.

• The Chunnel bridges a distance of 31.4 miles between Folkestone in the United Kingdom and Coquelles, France, near Calais. The tunnel actually runs under water for 23 of those miles. Boring machines worked from both the English side and the French side in a race to the middle, a contest won by the British. The tunnel’s average depth is 148 feet below the seabed, with its deepest point at 250 feet .

• On the day of the official dedication ceremony, England’s Queen Elizabeth traveled through the Chunnel on a Eurostar train, while French President Mitterrand traveled from Paris.

Their trains stopped nose to nose as part of the festivities. Over the next six years, 12 million passengers utilized the new rail service. Last year, close to 10 million people rode the rails under the English Channel.

• The Chunnel certainly couldn’t be considered an economical venture. It was one of history’s most expensive construction projects, carrying a price tag of $21 billion, (about 700 times the cost of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge!), 80 percent above the forecasted budget, and taking over a year past the estimated completion date. The project claimed the lives of 10 workers, eight Brits and two Frenchmen.

• Since its opening, there have been three major fires in the tunnel, producing serious damage.

One year into operation, 31 people were trapped in a fire, but the service tunnel proved its worth, as all passengers were able to escape. In addition, there have been other incidents when passengers have become trapped by electrical failures. One such failure kept passengers stranded for six hours, while another incident trapped 20,000 under the sea overnight.

• The average ticket price on a Eurostar passenger train from London to Paris is about $200 for a trip that takes two hours and 20 minutes. About 30,000 people ride the train daily.

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• Author Washington Irving is credited with the first written use of the term “dough-nut” in his 1809 publication “History of New York.” He described them as “balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat.” An American named Hansen Gregory maintained that he invented the ringshaped treat in 1849 while aboard a trading ship, when he punched a hole in the center of a ball of dough in an attempt to get rid of the raw center of the pastry.

• Quincy, Massachusetts, was home to the very first Dunkin’ Donuts shop, opened by founder Bill Rosenberg in 1950. Five years later, he was selling franchises for his new business. Today, the company is the world’s leading baked goods and coffee chain, with close to 9,800 outlets around the globe and $6 billion in annual sales.

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