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    Orange Layer Cake, Beverly Guy

    ByKara November 10, 2025April 5, 2026

    When Maryland started enforcing car registration laws on Smith Island in 1973, Beverly Guy took it in stride, despite the hassle. Her 1966 Falcon had never been issued the proper inspection certificate. Dealers just didn’t bother when the cars they sold were headed for Smith Island. Between July and August of that year, Guy got…

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    Sugar-Top Apple Cake, Lucretia Harris

    ByKara October 29, 2025April 5, 2026

    “She is one of the best cooks who ever walked.”

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    Harvey Salad Dressing, Miss Lulie P. Hooper

    ByKara October 13, 2025April 5, 2026

    The 1936 “Lovely Lane Cook Book” produced by the historic Lovely Lane Methodist Church contains a lot of “dainty” recipes. There’s Date and Nut Bread; cakes and cookies; ice box rolls; Frozen Banana Salad. There’s luncheon dishes and cheese fondue and “Fruit Punch to Serve Ten.” Like many church cookbooks, “Lovely Lane Cook Book” was…

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    Mrs. Snapp’s Peach Cake

    ByKara August 26, 2025April 5, 2026

    It took me several years to attempt this recipe, but the results were indeed excellent.

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    Jello Pretzel Salad, Grace Peterman Cowger

    ByKara August 12, 2025April 5, 2026

    In the summer of 1963, Grace Peterman Cowger and her three siblings organized an anniversary party for her parents. Clifford and Marian Peterman had wed on July 30th, 1913 in Princess Anne on the Eastern Shore where, like themselves, generations of Grace’s family had lived and farmed. The Salisbury Daily Times ran a photo of…

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