Elizabeth Staats (1852-1933, Kent County) collected recipes – hundreds of them. The collection started with a scrapbook Staats inherited from her mother Mary Griffith (1829-1892), whose original book contains handwritten recipes for food as well as things like soap and a “cure for cholera.” Staats finished that book before compiling the second book of over…
Once again I turned to The Park School Cookbook for some low-stress dinner ideas. I’m getting a surprising amount of mileage out of this little book. The recipe comes from Victoria Frank Albert, who was actually a grand-daughter of the school’s founder, Eli Frank, Sr. In my decades of living in Baltimore, I’ve noticed the…
“Every year in the 50s, my mother, my grandmother and I went downtown to do our Christmas shopping,” A. Zoland Leishear fondly recalled in the Baltimore Sun in 1989. The store had been closed all of two months and the nostalgia was stirred. Leishear recalled a picturesque scene of streetcar wire sparks lighting up the…
“Canned vegetables are not only a great convenience to the housewife, but when fresh, young products are used and canned under careful supervision by modern methods; they retain more of their food value and vitamine content than most freshly cooked vegetables. This has been recently proved by investigations carried on in nutrition laboratories. Therefore, the…
When Mercedes V. Rankin shared her recipe for “Portuguese Sweet Bread” in the “Bethel Cookbook”, assembled by the parish of the historic Bethel A.M.E. in 1979, she probably hoped to do her part to raise money for her church. What she surely did not know is that some random weirdo would bake this bread 36…