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.
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Lord Baltimore Cake, Grace E. J. Hanson
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…
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Mayonnaise Cake, Marylee Felton
A few decades after Lillian Lottier, Marylee Felton was taking the same path: serving the city and community through a career in education.
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Ritz Dessert, Maude Schell
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…
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Spring Salad & Taco Salad, Employees at Fort Detrick
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….
