As Lady Baltimore cake ascended in popularity in the late 19th century, it was quickly joined by a lesser-known counterpart. A 1900 cookbook, “Miss Olive Allen’s tested recipes : 200 selected from many hundreds gathered from all over the world,” touted alongside its Lady Baltimore Cake recipe that the cake is “Delicious! Not expensive when…
A few decades after Lillian Lottier, Marylee Felton was taking the same path: serving the city and community through a career in education.
“Some one has said that every big man has a hobby,” according to an article in the Baltimore Sun in 1915. “Willoughby M. McCormick is no exception to the rule… He has two hobbies that go together. One is food quality in connection with food purity, and the other is domestic science, or the science…
My Great Grandmother was born in Hancock in 1915. I guess that’s what drew me to pick up the 1970s or 80s era “Hancock Elementary School Cookbook.” Hancock is a small town with one main road (Main Street), but it’s an important way stop in Western Maryland and has been for centuries. In the 1730s,…
Georgia L. Cannon of Delmar seems like she would have been a good one to have on your side. In 1983, when Delmar councilman Ed Feeney was asked to resign, Cannon penned a passionate letter to the Salisbury Daily Times. “Thank the Lord for someone who will stand firm in his beliefs,” she wrote. “I…