Lovers Wedding Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 lb. flour of love
1 1/2 lb. buttered youth
1 1/2 lb. good looks
1 1/2 lb. sweet temper
1 1/2 lb. self forgetfulness
1 1/2 lb. powdered wits
1 1/2 lb. dry humor
2 Tbsp. sweet argument
1 1/2 pt. rippling laughter
1 1/2 wine glassfuls common sense

Preparation

Put the flour of love, good looks and sweet temper into a well furnished house.
Beat the butter to a cream.
Mix together blindness of faults, self forgetfulness, powdered wits, dry humor into sweet argument.
Add them to the ingredients.
Pour gently rippling laughter and common sense.
Work it together until all is well mixed; then bake it gently FOREVER.
(November, 1919)