The Infar-cake or Dreaming-bread

In early times the bride’s cake of rural Scotland was a richly shortened oatcake, which was used as infar-cake. The breaking of the infar-cake over the head of the bride on the threshold of her new home is a very ancient custom, having its origin in the Roman rite of conferratio, in which the eating of a consecrated cake by the contracting parties constituted marriage. (Scots law, althou