“Last summer while most of us had our minds on vacations the Woman’s League of the Church of the Ascension in Silver Spring were deep in the plans for a cookbook,” read an article in the women’s pages of the Washington, DC Evening Star in December, 1953. “In those three months they worked like beavers…
As Lady Baltimore cake ascended in popularity in the late 19th century, it was quickly joined by a lesser-known counterpart. A 1900 cookbook, “Miss Olive Allen’s tested recipes : 200 selected from many hundreds gathered from all over the world,” touted alongside its Lady Baltimore Cake recipe that the cake is “Delicious! Not expensive when…
In 1948, three recipes of the wife of one Robert Valliant appeared in the now-legendary community cookbook, one that has seen many reprints over the years: “A Cook’s Tour of the Eastern Shore.” The Valliant family lineage is so enmeshed into Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore that it was hard to determine which Robert Valliant I…
A few decades after Lillian Lottier, Marylee Felton was taking the same path: serving the city and community through a career in education.
“Some one has said that every big man has a hobby,” according to an article in the Baltimore Sun in 1915. “Willoughby M. McCormick is no exception to the rule… He has two hobbies that go together. One is food quality in connection with food purity, and the other is domestic science, or the science…