This recipe for “Moonshines” is fairly mysterious. Outside of the Hammond-Harwood House cookbook, I couldn’t find an origin for it. What is most mysterious of all is why anyone would make their own crackers. Even the recipe in Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen (1873) entitled “Crackers for Tea or Lunch” goes like this: See that?…
Sometime in the early 1900s, Mabel Roberts took a vacation to the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. She returned with recipes from a memorable meal she had enjoyed: fried Sea Bass with Remoulade sauce. She jotted them down into her “Housekeeper’s Casket and Cook’s Delight,” a blank recipe notebook printed by the…
The preface for the Melwood Cookbook gives a lofty -if somewhat bewildering- purpose for the book: “This book is compiled and published as a means of raising money with which to build a club house, in order that the aims and purposes of [the Woman’s Club of Melwood District] shall be the more fully realized……
“The Baltimore Sun rises to remark that its idea of a ‘sane Fourth [of July]’ is ‘oodles of fried chicken, deviled eggs and chocolate ice cream. It may be all right for the Fourth, but it does not argue well for a comfortable fifth.” – Racine Journal, WI, July 4, 1911 For a while now…
“Boxes of confectionery, cake, etc., sent to students, so far from being the kindness intended, are a positive source of evil. Their contents, eaten, as is generally the case, irregularly and late at night, produce sickness and impair scholarship, perhaps more than any other single cause. Unless parents and friends heed this remark, we shall…