Sugar-Top Apple Cake, Lucretia Harris
“She is one of the best cooks who ever walked.”
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Harvey Salad Dressing, Miss Lulie P. Hooper
The 1936 “Lovely Lane Cook Book” produced by the historic Lovely Lane Methodist Church contains a lot of “dainty” recipes. There’s Date and Nut Bread; cakes and cookies; ice box rolls; Frozen Banana Salad. There’s luncheon dishes and cheese fondue and “Fruit Punch to Serve Ten.” Like many church cookbooks, “Lovely Lane Cook Book” was…
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Mrs. Snapp’s Peach Cake
It took me several years to attempt this recipe, but the results were indeed excellent.
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Jello Pretzel Salad, Grace Peterman Cowger
In the summer of 1963, Grace Peterman Cowger and her three siblings organized an anniversary party for her parents. Clifford and Marian Peterman had wed on July 30th, 1913 in Princess Anne on the Eastern Shore where, like themselves, generations of Grace’s family had lived and farmed. The Salisbury Daily Times ran a photo of…
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Custard Cottage Cheese Pie, Mrs. Henry W Lenz
I recently had the privilege of giving a talk at the Homewood Museum on Johns Hopkins University’s campus. I focused on Baltimore’s culinary history, but or course there was plenty about Maryland in general. After the talk, someone asked a question about the influence of immigrants on Maryland cuisine. “Honestly,” I said, “if I had…
