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  • Homemade chocolate fudge pieces dusted with cocoa powder on white plate with decorative napkin
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    “Fudge-It,” Mary Pat Clarke

    ByKara June 15, 2022April 5, 2026

    If constituent services is any measure of a councilperson’s effectiveness then there is little debating that Mary Pat Clarke had a long and successful career. I once spoke to Mary Pat Clarke and mentioned that I had seen this recipe, for “Fudge-It,” in “Good things are Cooking in Greater Homewood,” a cookbook produced in 1973 by the GHCC. She professed to not be much of a cook. I have to admit this fudge recipe isn’t the most magical, fudgey candy around, but hey – its in the name.

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  • Homemade chow chow relish in glass jars with metal lids, vintage canning recipe from 1880s Maryland
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    Chow Chow, Mrs. Anna Humes

    ByKara January 30, 2022April 5, 2026

    I think a lot about the impact of digital documents on interpretation of history. Which items are and are not easily available to online inevitably steer the course of my research and my writing. For example: at some point someone in the New York Public Library decided to scan “Tested Maryland Recipes.” The public domain…

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    Mapping the 1911 Baltimore Sun Recipe Contest & “Crabs And Bacon,” Miss H. A. Blogg

    ByKara June 28, 2021April 5, 2026

    There has probably been no greater force for the dissemination of recipes developed by home cooks than recipe contests. State and county fairs in the 19th century hosted many cooking contests as a part of their “ladies” programming. These fairs were an opportunity for women gather and to show off their “domestic arts”, from needlework…

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    Christmas Cookies, Hallie A. Shinnamon

    ByKara December 28, 2019April 5, 2026

    This belated Christmas Cookie recipe from the Lovely Lane Methodist Church in Old Goucher is inadvertently my third post in a row related to places I’ve lived. Lovely Lane has produced at least two cookbooks that I’m aware of – one from the 1990s and one from 1936. Both are called “Lovely Lane Cook Book.”…

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    Interview: Laurie Boucher, “Baltimore home cook”

    ByKara May 7, 2019April 5, 2026

    Laurie Boucher told me that she always knew she wanted to study law. The vocation brought her from Pennsylvania to Baltimore, where she now resides. When Boucher needed more time to take care of family, she scaled back on lawyering, enrolled in culinary school, and began to master the art of pasta-making. As she shared…

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