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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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  • Baked apple dessert with nut filling in red bowl on slate napkin with spoon and wine bottle
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    Apples En Surprise, L. Gertrude MacKay

    ByKara October 17, 2018April 5, 2026

    “The fame of the Maryland apple is perhaps less known at home than in distant markets. The Maryland apple has never figured to any great extent in the lobster palaces in the Broadway section in New York at $1 per apple. It is a good apple, nevertheless.” – The Baltimore Sun, 1911 A Baltimore fruit…

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  • Homemade apple butter in mason jar with fresh apples and buttered toast slices on blue cloth
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    Apple Butter

    ByKara October 18, 2016March 6, 2026

    “Being at the house of a good old German friend in Pennsylvania, in September last, we noticed upon the table what was called apple butter; and finding it an agreeable article, we inquired into the modus operandi in making it, which we give for the gratification of such in New England as may wish to…

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