Cakes Collection (page 9)

Salmon Fish Cakes
Salmon fish cakes or cutlets, presented here with paper plates and cups, perfect perhaps for a summer party or picnic or even for supper in an air raid shelter. Date: 1940s

Selling Cakes from Boat
Cooking and selling cakes from a canal-boat in a Dutch town Date: 1904

Wholesome - nutritious foods from corn. Poster showing corn products, including corn oil, cornstarch and baked goods. Date 1918?

Optical illusion disc with two men throwing and catching cakes and stars. Date 1833

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Date 1940 Oct

Pams Bakers shop staff, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Pictured inside their High Street bakers shop are the staff of Pams Bakers at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1953

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex

VE Day street party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
To celebrate Victory in Europe Day, the children of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, were given a street party with food and cakes which had been in very short supply during the war years

Cafe decorated for George VI Coronation, Walton, Essex
A cafe on the High Street, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, decorated to celebrate the Coronation of King George VI. There are advertisements for Cooked Meats, Breakfasts, Luncheons, Teas

King alfred burns the cakes
" From " Historical Events", a series of postcards. " Date: 1905

Royal Wedding 1934 - the wedding cake
A most decorative wedding cake for Princess Marina of Greece and the Duke of Kent who were married at Westminster Abbey on 29 November 1934

Royal wedding 1863 - a cake of colossal proportions
One of the royal bridal cakes prepared by Mr. Bolland of Chester, which stood at nearly five feet high. All three tiers were ornately decorated

Making cakes 1952
Making a Baumkuche -- tree cake, Landskrona, Sweden, 1952. Date: 1952

Dreyfus Guilty Verdict
Dreyfus is found guilty by the Rennes court-martial, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment : newspapers sell like hot cakes on the boulevards. Date: September 1899

Tea for two
A boy and girl sitting at a table with tea and cakes. 1926

Petits Fours
A tempting plate of petits fours cakes. Date: 1980

Afternoon Tea 1981
What could be nicer than family tea and cakes (and cheese) with mum and dad? Date: 1981

Cakes with Dad
Children scoffing a large chocolate cake with their Dad on a hideous chocolate coloured sofa! Date: 1981

Mrs Beetons rich bride or christening cake, 1891
Recipe for a rich bride or christening cake, 1891. Date: 1891

Cake stand for wedding of Duke and Duchess of Kent
A girl admires her reflection in the mirror like surface of a huge silver cake stand for one of th ecakes at the marriage of the Duke of Kent

Cake and cake maker, 1898
Advertisement for Robert McGhies icing powder, as produced by the British Malt Products Co, London. Used by all the icing experts and leading confectioners of the world. Date: 1898

Coronation Tea Party (advertisement)
As part of an advertisement for Bowater Paper Corporation Limited, artist Illingworth previews the typical scene in British villages during Coronation week. Date: 1953

Woman and children picnicking
A woman and children picnicking by a tree outside a town. 1923

Royal Baking Powder
The boy in bed smells the griddle cakes made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER - and he ll be down to breakfast in a jiffy ! Date: 1920

Party Cakes, 1937
A selection of party cakes: Three Bears cake, Butterfly cake, and Dickory Dock cake (complete with mouse). Date: 1937

Twelfth Cake
Serving the traditional Twelfth Cake Date: 1913

French Confiserie
A French CONFISERIE selling cakes, sweets, and other nice things Date: circa 1870

Slab Cake Selection 1937
A range of handsome and high class slab cakes are offered, including the Waverley, Oxford, Melbourne, Dundee and West End. Date: 1937

Buffalo Puppy Cakes Ad
Two puppies climb over a packet of Clarks Buffalo puppy cakes Date: 1890s

Royal Wedding 1874 - distribution of bridal cake
Distribution of wedding cake in Edinburgh after the marriage of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (second son of Queen Victoria) to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia in January 1874

Royal Wedding Cake, 1923
A full page advertisement in the April issue of The Sphere covering the royal wedding of the Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, placed by McVitie and Price of Edinburgh, who strangely

The birthday surprise
A small girl stands on a cushion in order to savour the sight and aroma of a plate full of cakes, presumably made for her birthday

Cookery by Millicent Sowerby
A group of girl guides busy in a kitchen making pastry and cakes

Biskra - Southern Algeria - Cake and Date Seller
A Cake and Date seller in Biskra, Southern Algeria

Shanghai - porters resting by the roadside
Porters with large wooden barrels and baskets attached to their yolks, rest at the side of the road, some taking refreshment. Further down the street is a vendor of cakes or biscuits

Presenting a woman with milk and cakes
An Illustration accompanying an extract from Lily Watsons book A Child of Genius showing Katharine giving Miss Percival, the drawing mistress, cake and milk

Education, girls, cookery
A well equipped cookery class. One girl slices, some use mixing bowls, some are at the sink washing and drying. A selection of cakes cool on baking racks in the foreground

Christmas food, 1954
A whimsical and rather kitsch selection of festive foods including Christmas cakes, a gingerbread house and jellies

Dog Knocks over Cakes
No longer hungry, Towser knocks over the cake stand

Dog Fights Tiger Rug
After eating so many cakes, Towser feels strong enough to fight the tiger rug

Epiphany Charity
In the Franche Comte, at Epiphany, one of the family is chosen King, special cakes are baked and part given to the poor who come hopefully to the door

Blowing out Candles
Two boys around a birthday cake, one of them about to blow out the candles

Christmas Buffet Spread
Wonderful assorted Christmas foods on a table, including bean stew, peas pudding, roast duck, rabbit jelly mould, rock cakes, meringues, trifle, souffle, Christmas cake, etc

Selling Gingerbread
Selling HOT SPICED GINGERBREAD outside the Pantheon in Oxford Street, London. This was a favourite fast food of the period

Birthday Picnic
A group of very well-behaved children as well as an obedient cat and dog sit down to a birthday picnic in the country. A cake with candles takes centre stage

Desserts & Savouries 20C
An enticing array of desserts and savouries

Genoese Iced Cakes
Iced Genoese cakes

Fruit and Fancy Cakes
Dundee cake of the first quality is available for 2/8, whilst an exceptionally rich fruit cake " of handsome proportions" is yours for just 11/. Date: 1937

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