Certain styles are always in vogue. The doctor’s bag is timelessly evocative, conjuring up images of a bygone Norman Rockwell-tinted era, when physicians had close relationships with their patients and house calls were a common occurrence. My grandfather, who was a GP, once had a baby left on his doorstep (!) and he promptly gave him to the kindest couple he knew to adopt.
When I was asked to make a cake for a medical school graduate, I immediately thought of the traditional battered, cracked leather case, which opens from the top with a split-handle design. The leather effect is actually quite simple to produce. After rolling out the fondant, scrunch up a piece of aluminum foil, then unfold it and imprint onto the fondant.
The pills scattered around the bag were the easiest element – simply buy a few packs of Mike and Ike jelly beans, slice them in half and form colourful mismatched pairs.
Fun femme facts: Despite the assumption that doctor’s bags were a man’s accessory, the original Wonder Woman comic book character carried a medical bag (as a Lt. Nurse) in which she carried her costume and accessories; in the television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, Granny Clampett is a backwoods doctor who has a medical bag.
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