Baking Wife Cakes
July 3rd 2009 Once upon a time, a married woman sold herself (I assume as a servant or slave, but who knows?) to pay for medical care for her father-in-law (would any of you do that for an in-law?). Her husband was so lonely without her that he developed the recipe for a special kind of cake, which he sold in order to buy her back.
The recipe was for the traditional Chinese pastry known as Wife Cakes.
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