How did the tradition of decorating the cake with roses appear?
Nowadays, the cake can be, any form and absolutely any shape. It can consist of several tiers or be decorated with fresh flowers, mastic or various fruits. It all depends on your taste preferences and financial capabilities. However, the cake is still the most popular, which is decorated with cream elements. As practice shows, most often it is roses.
- This delicacy was not always the way we used to see him now. Many, many years ago it was completely different-earlier the analogue of the cake was bread.
- According to scientists' research, this sweet tradition originates since ancient times. Then the cake was made only on a special occasion - for the wedding.
- The rite of cutting one common piece from the entire wedding cake by young and feeding each other has an ancient story. But bread was used as a cake, which was manufactured using special technologies and according to the ancient unique customs of our ancestors, which were passed down from generation to generation. No wonder they say that bread is the head of everything.
- Interesting rites gathered around the ancestor of the cake in ancient Rome. The groom's family baked bread from wheat flour. Sometimes - from the barley base, depending on what flour was at home. After the finished bread, the groom broke over his head with his future wife and handed out pieces of those present.
- Thus, he shared with all his happiness, luck, good thoughts and intentions, and the crumbs that remained on the bride’s head, young ate himself. Thus, showing that from now on the wife left the family, and now he is under his wing and obeys only him.
- And our great -grandfathers and great -grandmothers with special trepidation and respect were attributed to the process of baking the wedding karavay, while observing many rites, each of which has sacred meaning.
- The manufacture of bread, kneading the dough, should only be engaged in married women. It was believed that in this way they convey their experience, favorably affecting future life. During the entire process, starting from the kneading of ingredients for the test and to baking in the stove, women sang special songs - “Caravemy”. And these women were popularly called "Caravems."
- This was done because of the thoughts that the dough is very sensitive and, like a sponge, absorbs the emotions and mood of the one who does it and who are next to him. Thus, the cake was “charged” only with good energy. The same function was in various decorations of Karavay - patterns, twigs and many other elements had their own special symbol that came to us since the time of paganism.
- About 2000 thousand flying back, already more similar cakes appeared to modern analogues. It is difficult to name the exact country of origin, since there is no accurate confirmation of a single version.
- Some connect the name of the cake with Italy (although the cake is translated from the Italian cake, as a “cake”), and someone considers France a parent not only fashion, but also the desserts. But he can say for sure that she made a cake sweet India, where the first reed sugar appeared. And he has already improved the addition of spices and various fragrant seasonings of the Far East.
- It is also interesting that some analogues of the current cake were also found in Greece. True, they were in the form of a pies, which was decorated with various mosaics, divorces and applications.
- In general, each cake has its own fascinating story. But they all come down to decorating a cake, cakes or a cake for a solemn event.
