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Show "' J T ' y't'- " " " . o.-.. J 1 i i i....- Goliath cf AH Pies Spread r.s a Fe:.st T:r Party, cf BrccLiyn 7altzers. , .BROOKLYN, N. T., Jan. 26. In his weirdest dreams, the most enthusiastic ple-lover on record never saw such a construction as was served and eaten at the annual ball of the' Consumers Pie Baking company. It was a pie," but it defies classification. It weighed 110 pounds, was three feet wide, two feet deep and seven feet long, and these things were in it:, f Two hundred eggs; 15 pounds of cocoanut, 6 pounds of cranberries, S pounds of mince meat, pounds of pineapple, pounds of plums, 11 pounds of lemons, 6 pounds of peaches and 60 pounds of sugar. . ' ' ' It took six me'n fifteen hours to make this pie. Each one had a section and he had enough to do to keep him busy all of one day. A half ton of coal was used to do it to a beautiful brown and the pie was in a huge oven for an hour and a half. A special steel plate had to be made to bake it and this alone cost $18. Until midnight, this delicious pie was on exhibitlonOn Saengerbund hall, with a special guard to protect it from the hungry. When the signal was given more than 200 pie-lovers attacked It In a body and it was all gone in the course of a couple of hour - ' It was the biggest pie ever made and those who ate it say It was also the best. , ' . - '.' ' |