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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1984)
J Wednesday,January 25, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Colorful cakes a specialty MSC baker a hot item or ore !w Me\- WtliC ' in 191)’| refud retuill By ED CASSAVOY Reporter 1 Deanna Hemmestad can create beautiful rainbows us- th e fjj ingonly sugar, flour, shorten- Ml0 ing, and a little imagination. 1 0 f J Isthe Memorial Student Cen- t( | ni ,, ter’s cake baker and decora- ( () | (1| l tor, Hemmestad finds her pot ol gold in a satisfied custom- interojl ei s Mnik '- t| Hemmestad, baker II in Food Services, is responsible fpr creating beautiful cakes of all types for university func tions, for students and faculty and for residents of the com- Jnmity. • . | The cake decorating oper- ( lanon began as a catering ser- ( vice to MSC functions such as * 1 iweddings or banquets, Hem- as[ mcstad says. But in the last two V 1 years her staff has expanded tpa part-time worker and vsne I student worker, and the de- ’h^Biand for her original crea- e *ffl ons kas * ncrease( f to to 60 U l ciikes a week at peak periods. I The days around Com mencement, Mother’s Day, and Christmas and during the University football season are the busiest times of the year for her staff, Hemmestad j savs. | Hemmestad is proud that I 111 of her cakes are made from ■match. It lakes half an hour to bake the cakes and another ■5 to 20 minutes to decorate them, Hemmestad says. On a ■ood day, up to 13 cakes can o or to! T decorated. 7imnJ Customers can choose .(for,,,; from white, chocolate, carrot, |r German chocolate cake and then decide on what decora- uons they wish to add. I Customers usually have an itlea in mind for the design of their cakes, Hemmestad says. They will bring in paper nap kins with drawings on them, ncsnii wllich Hemmestad or Judy fro^Biodwin, her part-time work- j'ier, will reproduce on the cake. jj cn] 1 Brandishing a small illuslra- iendji® 00 Ra 8B et ly Ann, Hem- hileor, ootinti j lishablt liy of I fine of so graj lis dint I red wo j eats, .aforar St. Lra edicalit ; wifed mestad said it costs extra for a reproduction of this type, but it’s so cute that it’s worth it. Food Service’s most popu lar cake is a standard 8 by 10 inch single-layer, 24-serving cake, with assorted lace, fancy border, flowers and ribbons costing $7.45, Hemmestad says. Larger cakes can be made to serve up to 100 peo ple and wedding cakes can be baked much larger than that, she said. Three dimensional cakes shaped into footballs, cartoon characters, and other figures are where the real fun comes in, Hemmestad says. She says that she has no favorite de sign, preferring cakes that de mand color and are challeng ing, finding each cake is a little different than the last. With Godwin serving as an assistant, Hemmestad pro duces such popular cakes as Garfield, Odie, The Care Bears, and even KITT, the car from the television show Knight Rider. But they do get some pretty different ideas for cakes, Godwin says. 3-D beer cans, soda cans, and com puter terminals for example. Some cake requests cannot be accepted, because of their questionable taste, Hemmes tad says, blushing, because Food Services must keep the cakes tasteful. Dark colors are avoided whenever possible, Hemmes tad says. The higher color concentrations cause the icing to be bitter, she says. One way of getting around that prob lem, in tne case of the very popular maroon, is to pro duce a much lighter shade. Hemmestad learned cake decoration through an adult education course she attended 12 years ago. Originally from Iowa, Hemmestad began her own cake decoration business be fore leaving for Texas two years ago. Texas A&M hired her as a cake decorator, re- Petroleum reserve may ease foreign oil needs United Press International WASHINGTON — The t rategic Petroleum Reserve ^ t >w contains 384 million barrels oil and could ease significant- the impact of a disruption of [ofeign oil supplies, Energy Sec- ’ ^ t a r y Donald H o d e 1 said Lpesday. y Hodel said the reserve, de nned to hold a maximum 750 ^‘jllion barrels, now contains * ( ,ough oil to offset disrupted oil Sports for 90 days. “Yesterday we put the 384 jjllionth barrel in the Strategic ^troleum Reserve,” Hodel told ’ 5 enale subcommittee hearing ‘'jj the management of the De triment of Energy’s programs tficerning energy security. . ,p P r . million barrels of crude oil in storage, we have the capability to offset significantly shortages in a severe petroleum supply inter ruption,” Hodel said. “To the extent that an actual shortage develops, which is not offset by existing excess oil pro duction capacity, an early draw down of the SPR may be approp riate,” he said. The reserve was approved by Congress to prevent the recurr ence of long lines at gas stations and soaring fuel and home heat ing oil prices caused by the 1973 Arab oil embargo and other dis ruptions of oil shipments due to conflicts in the Middle East. Hodel said the agency con ducted tests in 1983 to assure that the oil actually could be re moved from the reserves in case of emergency need and had “im plemented actions to improve fire protection systems, security, maintenance, and business man agement practices.” Last July, oil stored in salt domes at Bayou Choctaw, La., was pumped to the St. James ter minal “at a rate in excess of the design level of 240,000 barrels per day,” Hodel said. In November, more than T million barrels were pumped from underground caverns at the Bryan Mound, Texas, re serve site to above ground facili ties within a 24 hour period, he said. Photo by JOHN MAKELY Deanna Hemmestad placing Godwin, who later re turned as a part-time assistant to Hemmestad. Both woman laugh and joke constantly in their small corner work area, the location chosen because, Hemmestad says,“too many kitchen em ployees were watching us work.” Though this early in the semester orders are trickling in, orders soon will pick up to the point where Hemmestad will have to work Saturdays. One major reason is that most weddings occur on the weekend, and cakes are some times completed only hours before they are picked up, Hemmestad says. Many customers learn of the MSC cake service through word of mouth, and are shocked to learn that anyone can buy the cakes, Hemmes tad said. One way to alleviate the advertising problem has been through the use of two display windows located at the entrance of the MSC Cafeteria containing a number of dis play cakes, Hemmestad says. IlC seeking data on Texaco-Getty merger eal esffi ind oflil iome,k uld shoal United Press International I WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission, ^ checking for antitrust violations, Tuesday requested additional information on Texaco Inc.’s lable l proposed $10.1 billion takeover compau of Getty oil. ell, wl® The FTC said in a statement , saidfjthe action “is not indicative of 5 abo«i|the comrnision’s views on the merits of the acquisition,” only ponsijdeal. If consummated, the avetheitakeover would be the largest that it wants more data on the wn. Tli re corporate merger ever. The request came just hours before a 15-day limit for action by the FTC expired. If the com mission did not ask for more in formation or issue a ruling, the two oil giants would have been free to merge. There is no time limit for Texaco and Getty to provide the additional information, but once it does the FTC will have 10 days to rule if the acquisition would violate federal antitrust statutes. Texaco Monday increased its offer for Getty to $10.1 billion, or $128 a share, from a record $9.9 billion, or $ 125 a share. The new price was part of a move to end a legal challenge by heirs to the vast J. Paul Getty fortune. Pennzoil Corp., which had bid $112.50 a share for 43 per cent of Getty, is still challenging the acquisition. It has suits pend ing in Wilmington, Del., and Tulsa, Okla. Getty and Texaco struck their original deal to merge after a preliminary merger agree ment was reached between Get ty and Pennzoil. Getty maintains the agree ment with Pennzoil was invalid because it was not signed. Penn zoil contends it is valid because it was approved by the Getty board and announced to the public. 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