Cakes
Cakes — batter, pancakes, something sweet made by hand — mark in the old books affections well placed and a home secured. The dream tends to touch the warm domestic pleasures we make for those we love, and to ask where our affection is rightly given, and what comfort and belonging is being prepared for us.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cakes, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be bequeathed to him or her.
To dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable opportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper.
Pound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business. For a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake in the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them or eating them.
Fontaine, 1862
If a housewife dreams of making round cakes, it predicts that her husband will have a good store of luck and will make her a present. To dream of eating cakes, is also a favorable dream.