The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-23
LADIES ARE PLATED OVER b|G SUCCESS 0F COOKING SCHOOL Making of the Alabama Cake"Was Feature of Mrs.
 Wilson's Dem0nstra-
 tOn Yesterday

Mrs. Betty Lyles Wilson's cookingt school given by The Age-Herald to the ladies of Birmingham closed yesterday, having had an average attendance of 600 each day during the week
 This was the most remarkable school of It's kind ever given in Birmingham. but 1t could hardly have been otherwise with Mrs. Wilson as demonstrator, with tho excellent cooperation of the best mer-, chants of the city. and with the besr' products manufactured to select from
 Mrs. Wilson said yesterday that sha. loved Birmingham. and was really very sorry that the time here had passed sol quickly, and that she sincerely wished she was to be here another week Every one in the building was delighted when W. H. Jefrries of The Age Herald an- nounced that Mrs. Wilson would be i'm Birmingham again next year.
 Sweet things of all kinds were dis cussed yesterday. Newsomes furnishing all material for desserts. The most beau- tiful dishes that Mrs. Wilson has made during the week were the ice cream sandwiches and croquetts, Newsome's fur nishing brick ice cream for the sand wiches. and nut cream for the others. Mrs. Wilson introduced Mir. Karaunaul, the candy maker of Newsomes by say ing that she was certainly not ''the only pebble on the beach," when 1t came to being artistic in the candy line as she considers this man can make candy and flowers just as beautiful and good as her own
 Still stressing the economical side or the question, Mrs. Wilson gave the fol- lowing recipe to her class yesterday, 1t
 being what she considers the best cake
 that can be made for the labor and cost of material: Four-egg white cake. whites of four eggs. one cup sugar, half cup sweet milk. half cup butter. two cups Roller Champion flour, two tea spoonful Royal baking powder. She also gave to everyone the icing recipe which SO many had thought she was going to keep secret.
 The Alabama cake was beautiful. The cake itself was large and square. Iced In white and decorated with cotton blos- soms. The flowers showed the bloom in each stage. white. cream and pink. These blooms covered the sides and top of the
 cake and in the middle of the cake was a pile of picked cotton in which sat .
 miniature pickaninny. Across the cor ner of the cake was written Alabama. but this was superflous. for the cake
 was typically Alabama that 1t never could have been mistaken. After every one in tho hall had seen the AlabamA cake. Mrs. Wilson announced that with her compliments and the compliments ocl all the Birmingham merchants and ladics she wished to present it to The Age eraid. It Is every Alabama residents right to sec the cake designed especially for them, but as this Is impossible Tho Age H Herald has arranged for a picture of this cake to be in Sundays paper. The Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company gave away a handsome vesta range yesterday to the person hold ing the lucky number Little Perry Ed mundson drew the ticket from a box. the firht one being Miss NJ. Rooney. 438 Berry ! street, but as she did not 1.-Two on a street where there were gaa connections she was not eligible, so the little fellow drew again tho last time designating Mrs. NJ. Franklin. t39O Twentieth street, 10 whom the stove was given.
 | Those desiring Mrs Wilson's cook books may get them in two weeks at the Mer- chants Permanent Exhibit hall.