Cheese Cake (aka Smearcase), Carolyn Yingling
Sources for this regional delicacy are getting fewer and fewer as the years go by.
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Helen Tawes’ Seven Layer Cake
Helen Avalynne Gibson and John Millard Tawes didn’t have a decadent wedding. The newspapers ran no reports about Helen’s dress, or the flowers she carried, or the people who attended. In fact, the union didn’t appear in the paper at all until nearly two months later, when the Baltimore Sun ran a small article entitled,…
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Hoffman Cook Book (smear case) Cheas Cakes
The Manuscript Cookbooks Survey describes the handwriting in the “Hoffman Cook Book” as having an “unvarying mood.” That is one way to put it. The text is dense. Impenetrable. To my eyes: a nightmare. The exhausting handwriting likely belonged to Lydia A. Hoffman Smyser, who was born in Maryland in 1837 and ended up in…
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Orange Carrot Cake, Anna D. Cannon
I imagine that Anna D. Cannon had some stories. After graduating high school in 1942, she became the first female school bus driver in Montgomery County, and worked the job for 30 years. Unfortunately, Anna is another person whose stories I may never know. I know only that she was born in 1924 in Garrett…
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Bernice Watson’s Coconut Cake
In the Pratt Library’s African-American Department, within a special collection, “African American Funeral Programs,” are the funeral programs for both Bernice and Edward Watson.
