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There's electricity in the air at all the Bake-Off® Contests--but at the first event that simply wasn't enough. Mere hours before Pillsbury's first Bake-Off® Contest in 1949, known then as the Grand National Recipe and Baking Contest, organizers were dismayed to find that baking in the world's largest kitchen would be impossible! The 100 brand-new electric ranges that had been carefully set up in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel needed alternating current to run, but the generator that supplied the hotel provided only direct current. In the quiet of the night, Pillsbury had electricians break a hole in the wall and drop a cable down into the city's subway system, to tap into the alternating current cable there. (A more colorful version of this tale holds that the power was tapped from the subway's third rail. Although this isn't true, it's a great story to impress young electricians with.)

From "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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* Introduction - Bake-Off® Contest
__Marilou Robinson
__Nancy Hindenach
__Reta Smith
_ Don't Mind Her. She's a Cook
__Wayne Hu
__Karen Durrett
__Marilyn Belschner
_ Changing the Tools of the Trade
__Del Tinsley
__Gilda Lester
_ Celebrities
__Linda Wood
__Ellen Burr
__Nina Reyes
__Gilbert (Gil) Soucy
__Roberta Mintz Levine
_ Hardware: It's Not Just for Carpenters Anymore
__David Schmitt
__Teresa Hannan Smith
_ More Celebrity Notes
__Norma Eckhoff
_ Former First Lady and Prominent First Bake-Off® Celebrity
__Barbara Benton
__Margaret Hatheway
__Karen Casillas
__Ellen Nishimura
__Alda Menoni
__Annette Erbeck
__Birdie Casement
__Gladys Randall
__Karen Kwan
__Julia Hauber
__Kevin Koors
__Lisa Keys
__Susan Cox
__Leona Schnuelle
_ Original Autographs
_ Recipe Swapping
__Lois Ann Groves
__Susan Porubcan
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__Linda Rahman
_ Delivering the News
__Janis Chudleigh
__Edna (Holmgren) Walker
__Margaret Kramer
__Beatrice Harlib
__Betty Chromzack
__Elizabeth Zemelko
__Ella Schulz
__Kathryn Blackburn
__Kathy (Gardner) Herdman
__Kitty Cahill
_ The Technical Side of Judging
_ The Personal Side of Judging
__Mary Anne Tyndall
__Christie Henson
__Christine Vidra
__Dale Grant
__Debbie Russell
__Ella Rita Helfrich
_ Fate
__Janice Weinrick
__Lily Wuebel
_ Tricks of Memory
_ Baking Power
__Kristina Vanni
__Kurt Wait
__Dorothy Wagoner
__Harriet Warkentin
__Mary McClain
__Phelles Friedenauer
__Vesta Frizzel
_ Mishaps with the Press
__Leonard (Len) Thompson
__Marion L. Maire
__Bobbie Sonefeld
__Dorothy DeVault
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__Rosemary Sport
__Denise Joanne Yennie
__Stella Riley Bender
_ Cheesecake
__Gina DeRoma
__Maria Baldwin
__Pat Harmon
__Paula Blevllis-Russell
__Sandy Bradley

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