Article published in The Dispatch Lexington NC Sept. 2004.
After cooking hot lunches for 400 students and staff five days a week for several years, cooking to please two judges is no problem for Lexington's Walaska Cable.
Working in a tiny kitchen, she gets big results with her powerfully delicious baked goods, like her award-winning peanut butter cookies. Moist and chewy inside with just the right amount of crunch on the bottom, the judges for the Davidson County Agricultural Fair adult baking competition declared her Peanut Butter Cookies the best of all the kinds of cookies that were entered. The cookies won first place for pressed cookies, as well.
In fact, everything she entered this year received first-place ribbons.
"That was a first," she said, noting she has entered baked goods and canned goods in the fair's contest since 1990. Cable won blue ribbons with her Chocolate Mississippi Fudge Cake in the sheet cake category, her Peanut Butter Delight in the any other type of candy category and her biscuits. Her first-place biscuits unseated an eight-year reigning champion who had always received first place for her biscuits.
"I didn't know that until you told me," she said while being interviewed in her home. "I had never entered my biscuits before."
Judges Gay Harold, a retired home economics teacher, and Arianna Lester, a cake artist who owns her own business, took bites of the biscuit entries and tore them open to study the texture. In the end, Cable's biscuits won the judges' favor because of their light and airy texture.
Cable cannot remember why she and her sister, Marie Wishon, began entering the fair's baked goods contest. But both are hooked on the competitive atmosphere. Cable has always had fans of her cooking with her three sons and her husband, Jimmy Wayne. But it is nice to see others appreciate the care she takes in creating her baked goods, she said.
Overall, Cable has won more than 30 ribbons from the fair contests. Most of them are for first and second place.
"I just like to cook," she said.
Her love of the culinary arts made her a natural in the kitchens at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools. She began working at Pilot Elementary so she could earn some extra money but also be at home when her sons were. She retired in 1996. Cable has also cooked in the Lexington Memorial Hospital cafeteria on the night shift. She cooked suppers for the patients.
Asked what he loves his wife to make the most, Jimmy responded quickly, "Anything she cooks is my favorite."
From Halloween to Christmas, Cable and her sister are baking demons, he added. They prepare dozens of cakes and candies for family get-togethers.
Cable is like most great home cooks in Davidson County. She learned by trial and error after she married. For most of her married life, she made homemade biscuits every day, which explains her winning entries at the fair. She is so proficient with most of her recipes that she doesn't have to measure anything. She knows what a cup of flour looks like in her hand.
That's why she was thrown a little when the county fair contest organizers told her and other competitors they had to write down their recipes to be attached to each entry.
"I had to think about what I thought I put in it," she said. Cable also appreciates other people's cooking, and she is not shy about asking for a recipe.
Walaska Jane Walker Cable, 63, of Lee Smith Road, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
A funeral service will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Carmel Freewill Baptist Church, where she was a member. It will be led by the Rev. Darrell Cartrette. Interment will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Memorial Park.
Mrs. Cable was born May 28, 1943, in Davidson County to the late John Daniel Walker and Eula Mae Hunt Walker. She was a former employee of the Davidson County Schools, having worked in the cafeteria at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools.
Surviving are her husband, Jimmy Wayne Cable of the home; three sons, Clark Wayne Cable of Tyro, Jimmy Allen Cable and his wife, Deborah, of Silver Valley, and the Rev. Jason Daniel Cable, pastor of High Point Freewill Baptist Church, and his wife, Cassandra, of Thomasville; two sisters, Marie Anne Wishon and her husband, Edward Jr., and Sheila Vanessa Kidd and her husband, William, all of Lexington; a brother, Kenneth Walker of Winston-Salem; eight grandchildren, Allen Wayne Cable and his wife, Wendy, Joshua Adam Cable, Matthew Cable, Jeremy Cable, Kaitlyn Marie Cable, Miranda Cable, DJ Goodson and Kayla Perras; and one great-grandson, Zachary Allen Cable.
After cooking hot lunches for 400 students and staff five days a week for several years, cooking to please two judges is no problem for Lexington's Walaska Cable.
Working in a tiny kitchen, she gets big results with her powerfully delicious baked goods, like her award-winning peanut butter cookies. Moist and chewy inside with just the right amount of crunch on the bottom, the judges for the Davidson County Agricultural Fair adult baking competition declared her Peanut Butter Cookies the best of all the kinds of cookies that were entered. The cookies won first place for pressed cookies, as well.
In fact, everything she entered this year received first-place ribbons.
"That was a first," she said, noting she has entered baked goods and canned goods in the fair's contest since 1990. Cable won blue ribbons with her Chocolate Mississippi Fudge Cake in the sheet cake category, her Peanut Butter Delight in the any other type of candy category and her biscuits. Her first-place biscuits unseated an eight-year reigning champion who had always received first place for her biscuits.
"I didn't know that until you told me," she said while being interviewed in her home. "I had never entered my biscuits before."
Judges Gay Harold, a retired home economics teacher, and Arianna Lester, a cake artist who owns her own business, took bites of the biscuit entries and tore them open to study the texture. In the end, Cable's biscuits won the judges' favor because of their light and airy texture.
Cable cannot remember why she and her sister, Marie Wishon, began entering the fair's baked goods contest. But both are hooked on the competitive atmosphere. Cable has always had fans of her cooking with her three sons and her husband, Jimmy Wayne. But it is nice to see others appreciate the care she takes in creating her baked goods, she said.
Overall, Cable has won more than 30 ribbons from the fair contests. Most of them are for first and second place.
"I just like to cook," she said.
Her love of the culinary arts made her a natural in the kitchens at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools. She began working at Pilot Elementary so she could earn some extra money but also be at home when her sons were. She retired in 1996. Cable has also cooked in the Lexington Memorial Hospital cafeteria on the night shift. She cooked suppers for the patients.
Asked what he loves his wife to make the most, Jimmy responded quickly, "Anything she cooks is my favorite."
From Halloween to Christmas, Cable and her sister are baking demons, he added. They prepare dozens of cakes and candies for family get-togethers.
Cable is like most great home cooks in Davidson County. She learned by trial and error after she married. For most of her married life, she made homemade biscuits every day, which explains her winning entries at the fair. She is so proficient with most of her recipes that she doesn't have to measure anything. She knows what a cup of flour looks like in her hand.
That's why she was thrown a little when the county fair contest organizers told her and other competitors they had to write down their recipes to be attached to each entry.
"I had to think about what I thought I put in it," she said. Cable also appreciates other people's cooking, and she is not shy about asking for a recipe.
Walaska Jane Walker Cable, 63, of Lee Smith Road, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
A funeral service will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Carmel Freewill Baptist Church, where she was a member. It will be led by the Rev. Darrell Cartrette. Interment will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Memorial Park.
Mrs. Cable was born May 28, 1943, in Davidson County to the late John Daniel Walker and Eula Mae Hunt Walker. She was a former employee of the Davidson County Schools, having worked in the cafeteria at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools.
Surviving are her husband, Jimmy Wayne Cable of the home; three sons, Clark Wayne Cable of Tyro, Jimmy Allen Cable and his wife, Deborah, of Silver Valley, and the Rev. Jason Daniel Cable, pastor of High Point Freewill Baptist Church, and his wife, Cassandra, of Thomasville; two sisters, Marie Anne Wishon and her husband, Edward Jr., and Sheila Vanessa Kidd and her husband, William, all of Lexington; a brother, Kenneth Walker of Winston-Salem; eight grandchildren, Allen Wayne Cable and his wife, Wendy, Joshua Adam Cable, Matthew Cable, Jeremy Cable, Kaitlyn Marie Cable, Miranda Cable, DJ Goodson and Kayla Perras; and one great-grandson, Zachary Allen Cable.
Article published in The Dispatch Lexington NC Sept. 2004.
After cooking hot lunches for 400 students and staff five days a week for several years, cooking to please two judges is no problem for Lexington's Walaska Cable.
Working in a tiny kitchen, she gets big results with her powerfully delicious baked goods, like her award-winning peanut butter cookies. Moist and chewy inside with just the right amount of crunch on the bottom, the judges for the Davidson County Agricultural Fair adult baking competition declared her Peanut Butter Cookies the best of all the kinds of cookies that were entered. The cookies won first place for pressed cookies, as well.
In fact, everything she entered this year received first-place ribbons.
"That was a first," she said, noting she has entered baked goods and canned goods in the fair's contest since 1990. Cable won blue ribbons with her Chocolate Mississippi Fudge Cake in the sheet cake category, her Peanut Butter Delight in the any other type of candy category and her biscuits. Her first-place biscuits unseated an eight-year reigning champion who had always received first place for her biscuits.
"I didn't know that until you told me," she said while being interviewed in her home. "I had never entered my biscuits before."
Judges Gay Harold, a retired home economics teacher, and Arianna Lester, a cake artist who owns her own business, took bites of the biscuit entries and tore them open to study the texture. In the end, Cable's biscuits won the judges' favor because of their light and airy texture.
Cable cannot remember why she and her sister, Marie Wishon, began entering the fair's baked goods contest. But both are hooked on the competitive atmosphere. Cable has always had fans of her cooking with her three sons and her husband, Jimmy Wayne. But it is nice to see others appreciate the care she takes in creating her baked goods, she said.
Overall, Cable has won more than 30 ribbons from the fair contests. Most of them are for first and second place.
"I just like to cook," she said.
Her love of the culinary arts made her a natural in the kitchens at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools. She began working at Pilot Elementary so she could earn some extra money but also be at home when her sons were. She retired in 1996. Cable has also cooked in the Lexington Memorial Hospital cafeteria on the night shift. She cooked suppers for the patients.
Asked what he loves his wife to make the most, Jimmy responded quickly, "Anything she cooks is my favorite."
From Halloween to Christmas, Cable and her sister are baking demons, he added. They prepare dozens of cakes and candies for family get-togethers.
Cable is like most great home cooks in Davidson County. She learned by trial and error after she married. For most of her married life, she made homemade biscuits every day, which explains her winning entries at the fair. She is so proficient with most of her recipes that she doesn't have to measure anything. She knows what a cup of flour looks like in her hand.
That's why she was thrown a little when the county fair contest organizers told her and other competitors they had to write down their recipes to be attached to each entry.
"I had to think about what I thought I put in it," she said. Cable also appreciates other people's cooking, and she is not shy about asking for a recipe.
Walaska Jane Walker Cable, 63, of Lee Smith Road, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
A funeral service will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Carmel Freewill Baptist Church, where she was a member. It will be led by the Rev. Darrell Cartrette. Interment will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Memorial Park.
Mrs. Cable was born May 28, 1943, in Davidson County to the late John Daniel Walker and Eula Mae Hunt Walker. She was a former employee of the Davidson County Schools, having worked in the cafeteria at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools.
Surviving are her husband, Jimmy Wayne Cable of the home; three sons, Clark Wayne Cable of Tyro, Jimmy Allen Cable and his wife, Deborah, of Silver Valley, and the Rev. Jason Daniel Cable, pastor of High Point Freewill Baptist Church, and his wife, Cassandra, of Thomasville; two sisters, Marie Anne Wishon and her husband, Edward Jr., and Sheila Vanessa Kidd and her husband, William, all of Lexington; a brother, Kenneth Walker of Winston-Salem; eight grandchildren, Allen Wayne Cable and his wife, Wendy, Joshua Adam Cable, Matthew Cable, Jeremy Cable, Kaitlyn Marie Cable, Miranda Cable, DJ Goodson and Kayla Perras; and one great-grandson, Zachary Allen Cable.
After cooking hot lunches for 400 students and staff five days a week for several years, cooking to please two judges is no problem for Lexington's Walaska Cable.
Working in a tiny kitchen, she gets big results with her powerfully delicious baked goods, like her award-winning peanut butter cookies. Moist and chewy inside with just the right amount of crunch on the bottom, the judges for the Davidson County Agricultural Fair adult baking competition declared her Peanut Butter Cookies the best of all the kinds of cookies that were entered. The cookies won first place for pressed cookies, as well.
In fact, everything she entered this year received first-place ribbons.
"That was a first," she said, noting she has entered baked goods and canned goods in the fair's contest since 1990. Cable won blue ribbons with her Chocolate Mississippi Fudge Cake in the sheet cake category, her Peanut Butter Delight in the any other type of candy category and her biscuits. Her first-place biscuits unseated an eight-year reigning champion who had always received first place for her biscuits.
"I didn't know that until you told me," she said while being interviewed in her home. "I had never entered my biscuits before."
Judges Gay Harold, a retired home economics teacher, and Arianna Lester, a cake artist who owns her own business, took bites of the biscuit entries and tore them open to study the texture. In the end, Cable's biscuits won the judges' favor because of their light and airy texture.
Cable cannot remember why she and her sister, Marie Wishon, began entering the fair's baked goods contest. But both are hooked on the competitive atmosphere. Cable has always had fans of her cooking with her three sons and her husband, Jimmy Wayne. But it is nice to see others appreciate the care she takes in creating her baked goods, she said.
Overall, Cable has won more than 30 ribbons from the fair contests. Most of them are for first and second place.
"I just like to cook," she said.
Her love of the culinary arts made her a natural in the kitchens at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools. She began working at Pilot Elementary so she could earn some extra money but also be at home when her sons were. She retired in 1996. Cable has also cooked in the Lexington Memorial Hospital cafeteria on the night shift. She cooked suppers for the patients.
Asked what he loves his wife to make the most, Jimmy responded quickly, "Anything she cooks is my favorite."
From Halloween to Christmas, Cable and her sister are baking demons, he added. They prepare dozens of cakes and candies for family get-togethers.
Cable is like most great home cooks in Davidson County. She learned by trial and error after she married. For most of her married life, she made homemade biscuits every day, which explains her winning entries at the fair. She is so proficient with most of her recipes that she doesn't have to measure anything. She knows what a cup of flour looks like in her hand.
That's why she was thrown a little when the county fair contest organizers told her and other competitors they had to write down their recipes to be attached to each entry.
"I had to think about what I thought I put in it," she said. Cable also appreciates other people's cooking, and she is not shy about asking for a recipe.
Walaska Jane Walker Cable, 63, of Lee Smith Road, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
A funeral service will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Carmel Freewill Baptist Church, where she was a member. It will be led by the Rev. Darrell Cartrette. Interment will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Forest Hill Memorial Park.
Mrs. Cable was born May 28, 1943, in Davidson County to the late John Daniel Walker and Eula Mae Hunt Walker. She was a former employee of the Davidson County Schools, having worked in the cafeteria at Pilot and Churchland Elementary schools.
Surviving are her husband, Jimmy Wayne Cable of the home; three sons, Clark Wayne Cable of Tyro, Jimmy Allen Cable and his wife, Deborah, of Silver Valley, and the Rev. Jason Daniel Cable, pastor of High Point Freewill Baptist Church, and his wife, Cassandra, of Thomasville; two sisters, Marie Anne Wishon and her husband, Edward Jr., and Sheila Vanessa Kidd and her husband, William, all of Lexington; a brother, Kenneth Walker of Winston-Salem; eight grandchildren, Allen Wayne Cable and his wife, Wendy, Joshua Adam Cable, Matthew Cable, Jeremy Cable, Kaitlyn Marie Cable, Miranda Cable, DJ Goodson and Kayla Perras; and one great-grandson, Zachary Allen Cable.
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