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  • Two mason jars of homemade Queen of Oude Sauce labeled 9/24/23 on wooden surface
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    Queen of Oude Sauce, Merganthaler Recipe Scrapbook

    ByKara October 27, 2023April 5, 2026

    “At the funeral of the Queen of Oude, a diadem was placed on her brow,” read a story in the Baltimore Daily Exchange in 1858. The short report, filed under “Foreign Miscellany,” focused on jewels, describing “a necklace of lapiz lazuli round her neck, and circlets of amber round her arms and legs. A number…

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  • Homemade beet relish sandwich with shredded beets, cabbage, beef, and sliced onions on toasted bun
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    Beet Relish, Miss Helen Palen

    ByKara August 3, 2017March 12, 2026

    I thought we’d take things back into the 20th century this week. Among the “treasures” acquired in 1960 by the Maryland Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (”Maryland Room Acquires ‘Treasures’”, Baltimore Sun, November 1960) is a copy of a cookbook put out in 1948 by the Maryland Home Economics Association. Much like the…

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