MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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Cakes
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Wood
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Gold
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Flowers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vasilopita is a traditional Greek cake served at midnight on New Year’s Eve to celebrate the life of Saint Basil. After baking the cake, a coin is inserted through the base and when cut the person who finds the coin is said to be granted luck for the rest of the year!
Detailed explanation-2: -Essentially, a money cake is a layer cake which is stuffed with foil-wrapped coins. They are washed, wrapped, and inserted into the cake pan prior to baking. The cake is then assembled normally, and iced completely, and when you cut into the cake you never know how much money will be in your slice, if any at all.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Money Cake concept was started in the 1980s in Santa Cruz, New Mexico by Auntie MaryAnn who had incredible creativity and a Ms. Betty Crocker. She wanted an inventive way to present her daughter with money for her 15th birthday.
Detailed explanation-4: -The woman in the poem has been shown as highly stingy, miserly, greedy, and mean by nature. Whenever she took out the cake from the hearth, they appeared to be larger than the original size. Hence, she baked a very small cake for Saint Peter.