The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-27
MRS. SAM W7LLETTS JELLY CAKE
Why Il Has Stirred Snugamon Co unity,
Illinois, to ITS Depths.

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| at tho SanGamon county. ILL.,. fair. There
were red. white. and blue ribbons to
| be awarded for pigs and COWS and corn
| and wheat and pumpkins and quilts and
| knit stockings. There was $500 piano
| for jelly cake. and for months before
| jelly cake had been tho one absorbing
| subject Of thought and speech among the good
women OF Sangamon county.
| In Sangamon county. as in all rural counties.
thcrc arc broad bakers and corn bread bakers
and putters up OF preserves and butter churn-
ers and mlkers-each woman claiming excel
lence beyond approach in her own line. But
when it comes to cakes-which nre counted as
an especial and grand luxury for Sundays. the
days the preacher comes and the like-when it
comes to cakes each woman claims that she
can beat the world. Each has her own recipes.
carefully guarded as to certain and fascinating
touches. And upon the cakes that result from
these recipes-they call them receipts-each
woman Is willing to stand or fall. It was.
therefore. a wicked and seditious person who
SHE'D piano into the ring for the cake bakers
to wrestle for. What goes to confirm tho I'M
favorable estimate of this PERSONS character
is the kind of cake he chose for competition.
1t was not a pound cake or fruit cake or Q
nut cake or a sponge cake 1t was jelly cake.
The malgnance OF this does not ut first ap-
pear. "A jelly cake?" the women Of Sanga-
mon said. well. CESS kin" And they set
to work. The hot days OF late August and
early September We're spent in beating eggs
and, sitting flour and measuring sugar and
ing noses and cheeks A $500 "pieanny" was
not 70 be shifted at.
cake as the world has never looked upon.
height, thickness OF layers. frosting. or any.
thing else. 1t was a go-as- you please. catch
Fundamental principles Of inl!y cake, They arc
me same the world oyer. But the "fxins an
wnSd Hsrs w srS nsnrs
goo to be Sv tasted and
hs er and pt
cake: 1t had u different taste from ali the
rs wST s sd h5 a ST sss
This cake Is not like any Jelly cake. either
tut nsy sd aaa il tbs
from pantry sfeli. THis IS the, world tea,sr.
Mrs. sam, Willett OF Springfield. you take the
IN, Nearly 600 women were made furious by
True. she had figured in certain church fcsti.
sona But Who evsr Heard hs Of hor
as a cake baker,
w SS. y Sns ssS to her s Sam we
Mrs. sam Willett was $50 SO pleased to pieces
on; her T i'm Of the piano that She lot tho
Angel eake?" said the other woman. Y
angel esR S 81 Jelly cake out OF
wo oSo; nor any aNny one else" shrleked the other
%G esn barrod I nt wasn't fair. You ought to
Al, And SO SO the row began; And IT has waxed
taken from the decision and the work Of 40
epHmhn INV a,,n evidence .in began. --,
n
Xhs M ana % be clear to IL
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tie frosting may differ Jelly y" roll i' may "b 10
made nc Win n srongs cake Jelly Diamonds may
layers are made Of n peculiar dougl-hcre they
call it layer cake doush-whch is not So rich as
varies within certain limits to produce whito-
h t,m, 10, or more sweetness or some such elect
making of it thus is revolutionary. Ill timed. Ill
Among the the Now York ' bakers none could hs
the thg, resalatiSn layor-caks dough, One baker
,n II never knew Of such thing being ,doqe.
and don't SEQ how it was done Angel cake
Is always made in n loaf of some sort. | don't
see how It could bs made successfully OF such
o smail n 1n,f fhs g. ay., requires cra,t
layers
Another baker said: II should think jelly
cake made of angel cake layers would be sick.
Si en- shouldn't care to put such thing
Angel cake is too rich and too sweet"
me legal adviser OF the objecting women In
sangamon county tclegraphed TO Delmonioo
Tor his opinion. HI, telcgraphed back that. 1t
MAS MAS not Customary 70 make Jelly cake aftcr the
nirs. sam ,Wlllett pattern. but that such n cake
was certainly Jelly cake. And al the bakers
Yesterday agreed that this was tho ease.
It p . ''''' ''N'' ""'' '"o 'N''''''' -
4, And 1t seems there is NJ law for Jelly cakes
fhnt Is arbitrary enough to bar Mrs. sam Will
iclt out. she was simply arGt" enough t. ring
IN new style Of oak" which MAS sur" t. at
traGt attention In even that splendid mon"tony.
A Am. the ludsrs gave her III prize. Ergrybpdy
VIII Try the Mrs. sam Wiilrtt recipe. II l. an
omen question whether IL VIII u" rorulur y
may bocomrso. Ii il does, Mrs. sam Willrt w.l
no the proud inventor of Il new aud deadly At
ttck upon the human stomach which, l"gln-
ming its assault in early childhood. Will nft"ra
lew contests. wreck and RUIN il beyond al hopo
81 restoration, Tho long established Jelly cak'
Is bad. Angel cake is worse. Tho two %;