10/27/2026
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At Field's in Pauls Valley, demand for pecan pie and red-devil cake grew so great in 1953 that the restaurant added a bakery, the company's history says.
The history says Hazelle and Zora trained women to keep the baking going. Hazelle was married to Julian, and Zora to his brother Lee, the brothers who ran the restaurant. TravelOK says the business began when the brothers' wives cooked pastries for the restaurant's customers.
The 1953 line puts red-devil cake beside pecan pie as the reason for the new room, which makes Zora's baking part of the demand, not a footnote. It also lands nearly three decades after the 1925 opening of Field's Tavern, so the bakery was a response to years of customers coming back, not to a first rush.
By 1967, the company's history counts five trucks carrying the pies out.
Whose recipe does your family argue over, a grandmother's pie or a grandmother's cake?
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Sources:
- Field's Pies
- TravelOK
