The cakes of when my mother was younger

The projects of cake of my mother, she used mathematics calculation, for the size of the pan, she measured the cakes pan with water, and after the graduated jar,

she used, mathematics to calculate the perfect shape like, a pentagon, or  a star, (calculation ruler, square, compass) she used to make the format of the cake in silk paper, writting with pencil, and after cutting and scarving and also jointing the pieces of the cake,

the plate of the cake she used to ordered the marceneiro woodworker a plate of the size of the cake, was a board squared or rectangular depending of the format of the cake and have four legs, once with the plate my mother used aluminum foil to covered all, and after the cake in the plate the alluminum foil could be covered with the cake icing, the normal for that kind of cake was a icing that came a sugar crust, and one of the ittention was to cover the cake plate also with the icing or also with laces, silk tapes fake pearls, real flowers, this one is bought in the day and put for last, my mother even had his florista, where bought with frequency. And she measured the cake for the decoration with the bag and tip be perfect, the usual is make marks with the normal pencil, very small that would be covered with the decoration, the mina of pencil don't do any damage for healthy. Rute Bezerra de Menezes Gondim