The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-07
MAMMOTH COMPOSITE PIE.
Oval, 7x3x2 Weight 11O Pounds, Baked
 on SIS Plate.

Oval, 7x3x2. Weight 11O Pounds, Baked
 on SIS Plate.
 A pie which weighed 110 pounds, said to have been the largest pie ever made, was served up to the guests of the Con- sumers Pie Baking Company at the an- nual ball held at Saengerbund Hall. Instead of having any delicate collation. the big pie was tackled at midnight and the several hundred guests ate all for which their appetite craved. They all ate out of one pie and at the same time they parttook of eight varieties.
 The pie was as delicious as any that was ever made, in spite of the fact that it was so large that 1t took several men to handle it. And it was tempting to look upon, with its icy top and delicate colorings.
 The pie was seven feet long and was egg-shaped It was a pie which battles description and should have been seen to have been appreciated. It did not look like the pies that most people have seen, although it was made of the same ingredients. It was three feet vide width meaning from side to side-and was two feet deep,
 The creation was divided up into sec tions and was a most remarkable eX- ample of modern pie architecture. | There were sections of plum. peach, cocoanut, lemon, cranberry, mince, ap- pie and pineapple. The sections were as clearly marked off as If it had been one little five cent pie such as are set up in shop windows to tempt the way farer all over the borough.
 | It took six men 16 hours to make this l pie. They had sections and each man 1 had enough to tend to for nearly the whole of one day to see that his part of | the operation went through successfully. A half ton of coal was consumed to | do it to a beautiful brown and the pie was in the oven for an hour and half l being done.
 i Two. hundred eggs went into the pie | There were also several other little items. including 15 pounds of cocoanut, six pounds of cramberres. six pounds of mince meat, six pounds of pine | apple, six pounds Of pums, twelve pounds of lemons, six pounds of patches and fifty pounds of sugar It made harrelful when the mixture had been concocted and not one could guess when it was all together how one pie was ever to come out of the mess. A special steel plate had to be made to order to bake the pie and it cost SIS to get the casting made. When it was i'll 1 the mold it was placed in a big furnace | in the consumers Pie Company ovens and then the best artists in the piemak- ing had their ability tested to tell when
 1t was done as it should be done and was ready for the ball.
 Something os the size of the pie may
 be imagined when it is related that it was as large as 50 of the ordinary 25 cent pies which are sold ill the market, or 200 of the 10 cent pies. or 400 of the five cents pies such as most people are acquainted with.
 | The creation was on exhibition dur ing all of the dance at the ball. and a special guard protected it. The people I who are in the pie business and who see hundreds of pies every day of their
 lives were astonished at the sight and
 could not believe that it was really in- | tended to eat.
 l And when the word was given at mid