美夫妇奇葩纪念日传统 1955年的婚礼蛋糕一吃60年_BEC初级作文

美夫妇奇葩纪念日传统 1955年的婚礼蛋糕一吃60年

Back in the ’50s, it was rather fashionable to have a fruitcake as a wedding cake. Ann’s grandmother used the fruit that Ann’s grandfather brought home from the docks in New York to bake a three-layer dark fruitcake for the wedding. It was baked a couple of months in advance, so it would have enough time to age and settle. A local bakery even covered it with a hard shell, to stop the fruit from bleeding through. A layer of buttercream frosting was added on the day of the wedding.

时间先拨回50年代，那时很流行用水果蛋糕做婚礼蛋糕。安的奶奶用她爷爷从纽约码头带回家的水果为她的婚礼烤了一个三层的黑色水果蛋糕。这个蛋糕还是提前了几个月烤制的，为的就是能有时间好好熟化。当地一家烘焙店还专门用硬壳将蛋糕包裹起来，以防止水果渗出。在婚礼那天，他们又在蛋糕上面加了一层奶油糖霜。

“When you looked at it, it looked like a three-layer white wedding cake,” Ann recalled. After the wedding, the couple saved whatever was left of the cake, and have savoured it every year since.

“当时它看起来就像个三层的白色婚礼蛋糕，”安回忆道。婚礼宴会过后，这对夫妇将剩下的蛋糕全部保存了下来，从那以后每年都要拿出来“品味”几口。

Ann and Ken met as students at Syracuse University, and they lived in New York during the first few years of their marriage. But in 1968, they decided to follow Ken’s parents to Florida. “Even though we were both from the Northeast, neither one of us liked the cold,” Ann said. “So after those two visits to the in-laws, we said we were going to move to Florida. And we never regretted it.”