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Herter Wild Rice Cake. Material: metal. Size: 2 3/4" H. x 7 1/8" diameter. Description: gray colored circular metal tin with lid - brown print on lid: "Herter's Authentic Ancient Wild Rice Minnesota Benedictine Provision Cake or Holiday or Fruit Cake First made in Minnesota in 1686 by Louis Perrot as a provision cake for winter use and for wilderness trips. Made as a provision cake and holiday cake in 1686 by Pierre Le Seur at his trading post on Isle Pelee on the Mississippi River between Hasting and Red Wing, Minnesota. The fame of this cake spread and every trading post had to have it. Men would travel hundreds of miles by canoe to get one. Sold for as high as $100.00 a cake in later days in the gambling halls of Deadwood, South Dakota. This cake is made in the Benedictine manner and contains native Minnesota wild nuts, fruits, lingonberries, wild rice, and is flavored and moistened with French bitters. It contains no orange peel, citron or such cheap fillers, as found in today's so-called fruit cakes, and is nothing like any fruit cake made today. Keep this cake in the metal container with the cover tightly closed when not removing slices to eat. This cake is not meant to be eaten in large bites. Take only very small bites and eat the cake slowly. The after taste and aroma in your mouth is just as delicious as eating the cake itself. Avoid smoking while eating this cake as smoking dulls your senses of taste and smell. The cake tastes at its best served with coffee, beer, hard liquor, and wine. It does not have the maximum flavor served with milk or tea. A precious ancient work of art. Treat it with the proper care and you will be rewarded with one of the finest taste and aroma sensations ever created. Ingredients: Dried grapes, dried currants, black walnuts, cherries, wheat flour, wild rice, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, honey, whole eggs, lingonberries, corn syrup, brandy-rum, flavors, cardamon, artifical and natural flavors. Herter's Waseca, Minnesota. Since 1893. United States of America Custom Officers Note: Container made in the United States of America. Cake entirely made in Minnesota, U.S.A." - around side of container: "This cake tastes at its best with coffee, beer, hard liquor and wine. Not to eaten with milk or tea." "Heter's Authentic Ancient Wild Rice Minnesota Benedictine Provision Cake or Holiday or Fruit Cake."Context
Waseca business: Herter's Inc. Herter; Herters; Herter's.Cataloged By
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Category 07: Distribution & Transportation ObjectsCreate Date
June 29, 2000Update Date
November 21, 2024