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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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  • Wrapped caramel candies on wooden surface, golden brown hard candy sweets with clear cellophane packaging
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    Vinegar Candy, The Oriole Cookbook

    ByKara October 31, 2018April 8, 2026

    Vinegar is one of those culinary facts of life that existed for thousands of years before being truly understood. (Some probiotics enthusiasts might say that we still don’t truly understand vinegar.) With the ability to sterilize, preserve, and add flavor, vinegar has been made all over the world with as many source ingredients as can…

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  • Two dark chocolate fudge squares on parchment paper, homemade Baltimore caramels with crackled surface texture
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    Baltimore Caramels (a.k.a. Fudge)

    ByKara January 29, 2018April 5, 2026

    If there were definitive proof that fudge was invented in Baltimore, we’d never hear the end of it.

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    Grape Fruit Candy, Harriet Caperton Shaw

    ByKara October 18, 2017March 5, 2026

    Warning:  This is a pretty macabre story to go with a candy recipe post. It’s October, so if you want you could come up with some intrigue about ghosts in Greenmount Cemetery. If you are more the spiritual type you can think of the connections between food and communion with the dead. A recent run-in…

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  • Smooth homemade chocolate fudge squares on parchment paper with crumbs
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    One Hundred Dollar Fudge

    ByKara November 13, 2016April 5, 2026

    In 1971, a woman in Fruitland, MD, recovering from an illness, took out an ad in the Salisbury Daily Times to express gratitude towards the “many friends who contributed in any way” towards her recovery. She thanked friends, neighbors, ambulance drivers, doctors, her Pastor, and she praised the Lord. She also thanked “Bill Phillips and…

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