The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-23
FIE.FO0T XMAS CAKE
|rbp ~Goodi8" Required Hundred
foos in Its Manufacture.
VAS MARKETED FOR $3.50

|r,e Product of the Culinary Skill OF
~ ~, Nellie WoodsOn Reese OF
ronsos. Who Is Very Proud OF
~. accomplishments as Cake
Instructor. A Church Will Get
the Money
enormous cake, five feet in cir
,foronce and tall enough to reach
49,, the table to the chandelier, is
s..ont product of the culinary skill
Mrs Nellie Woodson Reese, whose
40 is at Proctor station, on the In
,.aondonce electric line, short dis
H. from independence, Kan.
81 MIRO Reese truly may be styled
- champion cake baker of the
avid saws the Kansas City Star, as
otbing approaching the size and
,vtnre of her cakes has ever been
ooorded in this or any other period,
far as her acquaintance know.
oro might we'll open his eyes in won
H. IN hear of a cake in which Ice
.gos we're used, but in the first LOAF
. LAYER cake Mrs. Reese recently
,.tod that number of eggs had
lace In the second layer of tbs
anne cake fifty eggs were used, in
bo third loaf thirty eggs and in the
onrth twenty eggs. This layer cake
five loaves was tall enough -
oucb the chandelier.
md that is not the end c. :,
Mrs. Reese is planning to bake Il
AXE in which 300 eggs will be used.
me size of her oven is all that i,
he past has prevented her from un-
ertaking this ambitious feat. one
i the 1O0-egg cakes which she ra1yed
enough to supply 500 to 400 No.
hons each with an ordinary sic"
niece. Each slice from such a cake
makes six ordinary slices.
Mrs. Reese is a good type of the
kld-time southern society Won.a;.
khe is a member of one of the old
st and most prominent Missouri fam
lies and the daughter of the late
udge Simon H. Woodson of indie
endence She lives in the old Wood
On home, just north of the Proctor
tation, built thirty-fve years ago.
he is a member of the Colonial
pames and is a Daughter of the~Con-
ederacy Her father was on the
bench in Jackson county sixty years
Co. when the first court house was
uilt at Independence. Her husband,
Ernest Reese, died seven years
Co.
While she may be justly proud of
er family history and the esteem in
hich she is held in the community,
he also is very proud of her accom-
lShments as the champion cake
aker. While her cakes are very
luch in demand at weddings and
lurch festivals, and while frequent
she accepts commissions for such
ccaSlons, she does no baking for
81 own profit. 1t costs $3.50 to
Dtaln one OF the 100-egg cakes she
axes but the profits of the baking
10 the church of which Mrs. Reese
member. 1t matters not wheth-
inc cake is sold to be used at a
lufch festival or a wedding Mrs.
VeSe says she gives the profits of
u Oaklng to the church Just the
recently she baked a very large
Ct cake, in which 200 eggs were
Seu' fonltEieRds in Denver. It re-
u!Ieu fs Whto prepare the material
~ oneeditc to bake. On the third
plep"aed and applied the white
USraS' For this Gaze she received
hoV, 1t required a very large.
5Vlaliy made box in which to pack
GdKe for shipment to Denver.
"tIIved there safely and the Den
RaperS commented on it as be-
'He largest cake ever seen in the
w "ud probably the largest cake
me world.
oil, began baking cakes for church
1'is Ihree years ago." Mrs. Reese
anto u ner cake-baklng accomplish
kas - My friends praised my
Ondos 90 mighty it inspired me to do
"1t t'lul tnlngs in cake baking.
vo nGr death Mrs. Judge Sawyer
t -he nef very large baking range,
Ilv 'I Us enabled me to bake unus-
ecara large cakes. Soon my cakes
hoo s'7 very much in demand at we'd
P6 9p' al ana those who can afford it
n ,ng very large ones. I am MAX
icb "55aPaarations to bake one in
~ l oVV eggs will be used.
Is san three years ago by bak-
v.. If-,egg cake for the church.
ngq % or large cakes I bake for we'd
he an5 decorated with bridal roses,
aped I on qIoyes, while on top in a
upe '''H IS a miniature bridal
at VAL ", nave never heard of a cake
have y baq approach in size the ones
ucb n rtiheu' Mrs. Reese said with
pera Do ~, clippings from prominent
ateq III IL, all parts of the United
bout r ouu some in Canada telling
h tho > cakes, and all agree they
bring t IbaPsest ever heard about.