Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 7 · column 3 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
Her bagels and muffins, cupcakes or cookies, her breads or pies can be found as far away as West Virginia or Maryland and as close as at Parkway Gifts in Sperryville.
“It’s a lot of work,” she said with a smile.
A cook at heart, Mrs. Wyant said “someone could never do this without loving it.”
It takes several hours to prepare one item. After preparing the dough, baked with two added preservatives, she dries the artwork, preferably outside. Though she does use the oven when conditions don’t permit outdoor drying, she prefers the three-day drying outdoors.
With her creations lining baking shelves and perched on TV trays, she said, often she spends much of her day dashing outside between raindrops to retrieve her drying goods only to carry all the trays out again when the cloud passes.
All items—even the icing and ice creamtoppings—are made from doughs -" "
“This is something" ERattakes time because you have to let it dry before you can go to the next step,” she said.
Besides time for preparing each piece— each apple slice is cut by hand, each blueberry rolled by hand, each drop of icing or ice cream dropped with care—perfecting the color is a tedious and time consuming ordeal.
“For instances, this syrup,” said the cook pointing to a strawberry shortcake, “took forever to get the right shade of red.”
While most of her art forms are available at shops around the county, Mrs. Wyant takes direct orders.
Items range in price from $1 for cookies, rolls or biscuits to $4 for gingerbread people to the most expensive $15 for layered cakes, large pies and loaf breads.
89.8%