Texas Pecan Cake

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:06 AM -0400 9/24/01, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
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>TEXAS PECAN CAKE
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>    This continues "pecan" coverage, for DARE, Barnhardt, whomever.
>    From the NYHT, 4 September 1951, pg. 22, col. 6:
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>_Canned Texas Pecan Cake Arrives This Week_
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>_Colorful Creation of Woman_
>    _Who's Made It a Career_
>    _Is Ideal as Quick Dessert_
>By Clementine Paddleford
>    Texas pecan cake is due this week in New York CIty stores, a cake
>from Sherman, Tex., Eunice King's Kitchen, this cake her career.
>...   We met the cake first in Dallas three years ago, where it was
>selling in the grocery department of the Nieman-Marcus Company...

...and probably for less than those $20,000 chocolate chip cookies
Neiman-Marcus has since become known for

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