Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-11-12
.EP|CUREAN SPASM
INDUCED BY CAKES
ALSO BY PIES AND DoUGHNUTS
AT THE FAIR.
Culinary Department Display Pleasing
to the Eye AS Well AS the Inner Man.

Speaking of coOkery-if you have
seen the culinary department of the
fair you haven't been speaking of
anything else since.
Shades of Epicurus, If the old Greek
philosopher were alive today he would
go right to the fair grounds and he
wouldn't stray away from that cookery,
not even to look at those twins with
the Yavapai county exhibit
Big cakes, little cakes, wheat cakes
and sweet cakes; Mothers cakes, Sis
ter's cakes, darn good-to-eat cakes. At
least they look good to eat and the
judges say they were. Say, what would
have you have given TO to have been
a judge in the culinary department?
Your bank account. probably, but he
who wouldn't mortgage his next years
income to to be turned loose in the
cakes is a piker with Indigestion and
stomach misery that Diapepsin won't
touch and puts Mona tablets in the
gumdrOp class.
There were cakes covered with chocO-
late; cakes fairly eXuding molasses;
cakes with fancy figures in candy on
their top: cakes with just enough
crumb TO hold together luciOus raisin
and citron combinations; cakes covered
with white frOsting and cake with jelly
between the layers. In fact there isn't
any kind of a cake that can't be found
in the culinary department of the
woman's building.
Then there are the pies. UNI haum,
pies! Pies that make the ordinary
garden varieties of pastry look like
poor limitations of base counterfeitS.
Lord only knows all the things that are
inside. but it's everything that's good.
Mince pies. lemon pies. custard pies.
pumpkin pies. fruit pies of all kinds,
not forgetting that perennial favorite,
apple pie. are there in all their pristine
glory. wing with each other for artis-
try and beauty of outward appearance
and for toothsomeness of inward deco
rations. Every pie looks like it would
taste better than the other one.
And doughnuts. Did somebody say
crullers? why will New England and
the elder generation persist in calling
them crullers? Anyway. they're there,
far too good to be under glass In
them the pinnacle of dOughnut perfec-
ton has been reached.
The same can be said of the cookies.
Ginger cookies. raisin cookies. molasses
cookies and all the various other kinds
are there in profusion. They are cruel
ly tantalizing, especially to the small
boy with big pockets. Coat pockets
were made for no reason under the sun
except as cookie carriers and the
youngsters whose mothers made those
cookies at the fair are favored children
of fortune.
What goes with cakes. pies, dougnuts
and cookies? Why, preserved fruit, of
course Anybody knows that. Well, it's
there with the pastry at the fair-a ton
of it, more or less. Every kind of fruit
grown in Arizona is included. and ev-
ery combination of fruit known to the
inventive housewife. Fruit buffers.
iellies. jams and straight preserves
present a riotous combination of col
ors that delight the eye. There are
some who say that they would rather
look at the colors in the preserve jars
than the tints and tones in the pictures
on the opposite side of the building.
There isn't a thing in the culinary
department that doesn't look like it de-
serves half a dozen first prizes, all to
itself. A profusion of blue and red
ribbons is distributed through the de-
partment. but there weren't half
enough, even at that.