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.
New blog posts have been rolling in very slowly since I’ve been busy promoting “Festive Maryland Recipes.” Sometimes I get nervous about letting my research fall by the wayside. But I’ve been tending to an aspect of Old Line Plate that has become every bit as important to me: connecting with people. The pandemic made…
Like most things in Frederick County, Fort Detrick was built on farmland. The military installation started as a small, privately owned airport established in 1929 and later named after World War I squadron flight surgeon Major Frederick L. Detrick. The site was used as an airfield up until the United States entered World War II….
It’s interesting to ponder the ways in which different political impulses and movements have had an effect on recipes. For instance, did the “Women’s Club Movement” and the Progressive Era result in cookbooks that would otherwise have not been produced, and recipes that may not have otherwise been documented? Or would community cookbooks have been…