bridescake

It's one thing to omit sending a man a piece of your bridescake, and quite another to knock off his hat in the street.

Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 1893

You know that nice smooth white sugar on the top of bridescake?

Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story 1887

This is a custom still practised, but what is now the bridescake is not a cake broken over the bride's head, but a larger and more elaborately-prepared article, which is cut up and distributed immediately after the marriage ceremony.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847