Rose Geranium Cake, Mary B. Shellman
Mary was a suffragette, also championing suffrage’s companion cause, temperance. Stereotypes aside, she seemed to have some fun.
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Brown Stone Front, Mrs. Byron S. Dorsey
Mrs. Brown, the first-nameless protagonist of playwright Chandos Fulton’s 1873 novelette, responds witheringly to the news that a friend’s daughter has wed a man of modest means. “It was a love-match, I suppose,” her friend Mrs. Campbell told her, and Mrs. Brown “did not deign a reply.” As the plot of Fulton’s novel unfolds, Mrs….
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Shoofly Pie, Elizabeth Birnie
Lest we forget the Pennsylvania Dutch contribution to the Maryland culinary tapestry, it was high time I tackled that old classic: Shoofly Pie. This crumb-topped molasses pie most likely gained its folksy name from a brand of molasses, according to historian William Woys Weaver. He wrote about the pie in his 1993 book “Pennsylvania Dutch…
