Sabillasville is a small town on the Pennsylvania border, north of Frederick. I forget where I got this cookbook but it seemed like a good one to learn about a new place and cover some more “Western” Maryland recipes. Alas, things did not pan out so well.
The town of Sabillasville was officially founded in 1813, and named for Savilla Zollinger, a wife of one of the early Swiss settlers to the area. I can’t find anything about when the St. John’s Church opened there. The cookbook, “The Best in Cooking in Sabillasville,” appears to be from the 1960s. I would have suspected the 1950s, but there is an ad for the Shamrock Restaurant in Thurmont. The Shamrock opened in 1963 (and closed in 2019.)
