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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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  • Slice of rose geranium cake with white frosting on gray plate, wooden table setting
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    Rose Geranium Cake, Mary B. Shellman

    ByKara April 10, 2022April 5, 2026

    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

    ByKara December 11, 2021April 5, 2026

    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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  • Slice of cinnamon pie with meringue topping on blue plate, vintage recipe by Mrs. B. F. Selby
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    Cinnamon Pie, Mrs. B. F. Selby

    ByKara June 14, 2020April 5, 2026

    I made this pie weeks ago. Maybe months now? At the time, I was living in a lot of fear of exposing myself or others to the virus. Those fears are still there, but we’ve since adapted a little better. As weeks went by without grocery shopping, I felt a more personal perspective on some…

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  • Lemon cheese cakes from Ann Cadwalader Ringgold Schley recipe with tea and fork on wooden table
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    “Lemon Cheese Cakes,” Ann Cadwalader Ringgold Schley

    ByKara February 25, 2020April 5, 2026

    The Wikipedia entry for “Chess pie” offers up several possible explanations for the name – the pie is named for a piece of furniture called a pie chest, or for the town of Chester, England. Some theories are just silly. “It’s jes’ pie.” Okay… whatever. The likely explanation is that “chess pie” evolved from recipes…

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