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...Epicurean published elaborate engravings and full directions for making Roman helmets of strawberry ice cream and pistachios, spun-sugar rabbits stuffed with puddings or parfaits, wheelbarrows of pastry filled with sugar roses. The tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece. The Roosevelt Inaugural Cake weighed 110 Ib. and was the product of Mme Blanche (Blanche LeRallec), famed cake baker to all U. S. Presidents since the first Roosevelt. A crustularian purist. Mme Blanche disdains such devices as building her mammoth cakes around steel or wooden scaffolding. She has built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: De Crustulariis | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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