Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Geology, Education, Gender

    Suggests making 'Twelthcakes' so that they 'illustrate the science of geology'. The cakes would be 'composed of strata resembling those of the earth except in their relation to the sense of taste'. Children would thus exchange cakes and geological concepts at the same time. Believes a 'geological' wedding cake would illustrate the union of husband and wife, 'the Intellectual and the Physical' respectively.