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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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  • bowl of gumbo with chicken and parsley
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    Gumbo Filé, M. E. M’Ilhenny, Avery Island, Louisiana

    ByKara June 7, 2022April 5, 2026

    “Gumbo Filet Powder is made of the tender young leaves of the sassafras,” wrote Jane Gilmor Howard in her 1873 cookbook Fifty Years in A Maryland Kitchen, “picked in the Spring, and dried carefully in the shade as you do herbs; powdered fine, bottled and corked tight. It is much used in New Orleans.” This…

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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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  • a plate of crab in cream sauce served over brown rice with green beans
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    King Crab Au Gratin, Ruth S. Wood

    ByKara March 24, 2022April 5, 2026

    I’ve come across a fair share of librarians in my cookbooks. Librarians might be next behind home economists as far as professions of recipe-contributors goes. Unfortunately, I could find scarce information about Ruth Wood, who contributed this “good luncheon dish” to “Once Upon A Thyme in Charles Village” in 1972. Her name is too common…

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  • Slice of Harvey Wallbanger cake with orange frosting on white plate with fork, red napkin, whole cake in background
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    Harvey Wallbanger Cake, Elaine Burns

    ByKara February 26, 2022April 5, 2026

    Depending on how you look at it, the legend of the origin of the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail has been uncovered over the years – or just sured up to incorporate the available facts.

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