Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 134
CONJURING TRICKS. 117 A CAKE BAKED IN A HAT. This old trick always amuses the spectators. Some eggs are broken into aporcelain vessel, some flour is added thereto, and there is even incorporatedwith the paste the eggsliells and a few drops of wax or stearine from a near-bycandle. The whole having… … FIGS. . 1 :i. — A CAKE BAKED IX A HAT. passed through a state of great apprehension, he finds with evident satisfaction(at least in most cases) that his head gear has preserved no traces of the mix-ture that was poured into it. Fig. 2 shows the apparatus employed by prestidigitateurs to bake a cake…
Magic tricks
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