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The icing’s gone brown and there’s a big crack in the side, but this wedding cake is in pretty good nick – considering it was baked 113 years ago.

Made in 1898, this is the oldest complete wedding cake in the world.

Incredibly, it has survived a Second World War bomb blast. And despite its vintage, the rich fruit cake inside the ornate icing is still moist.

It was originally on display in the window of a family bakery, in Basingstoke, Hants. When the shop closed in 1964, the cake was stored in the family’s loft for almost a century, until it was donated to the town’s Willis Museum.

Curator Sue Tapliss said: “The baker’s daughter, who was unmarried, donated the cake towards the end of her life, due to fears someone might discover it in her attic and think she had been jilted at the altar.

“It has been stored in unfavourable conditions, giving it a darker colour. A large crack in the icing, the result of wartime bombing vibration, was in a precarious state. But the cake was found to be very moist.”

Sue added: “Pieces of Queen Victoria’s wedding cake were auctioned off, but this is the world’s oldest complete one.

“We hope it can be enjoyed for a further 113 years.”

In 1974, scientists concluded that canned food found on a steamboat which sank in 1865 was still edible. And in 1938 a 100-year-old tin of veal was fed to a cat, with no ill effects.

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