[Sca-cooks] St. Agatha cakes

[Christiane]

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:50:37 -0500 (EST)
From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
A friend of mine did a semi-mundane subtlety for someone whose arms
include St. Agatha, who is generally depicted carrying her breasts on a
plate.

The subtlety consisted of two dome-shaped red velvet cakes over  flat
circular red velvet cakes, both filled with vanilla pudding and iced in
white and pink.

The first wasn't so shocking, apparently-- but several people came late to
the party and didn't see the two cakes together, thus failing to
recognize the iconography. When they cut into the second cake and the
pudding came squirting out, they were _very_ disconcerted. :)

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"I am in a corner without being back[ed?] there and often come out
fighting." -- James Thurber, 1960 interview with Life

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What an appropriate subtlety, because St. Agatha was the patron saint of bakers in the Middle Ages in Italy. Because her breasts on a plate looked like, well, cakes.

Her feast day is the main one in Catania in Sicily. Nuns there have made marzipan-covered cakes called minne de vergine. A good picture of them can be found here. 

http://britius.stblogs.org/archives/012516.html

Love those cherry "nipples!"

Gianotta