ABSTRACT
The first recipe linked explicitly to a wedding was published in 1655. It is a development of Markham’s cake of forty years before, doubled in size and made more special by being enclosed like a modern Scots black bun in a pastry case. It was made for the wedding of the daughter of one of the greatest families in the land, the Manners of Belvoir, and, since the bridegroom was born only in 1635, the wedding must have taken place not long before the recipe’s publication.
