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    Lemon Ice Box Pie, Mrs. Harry C. Michael

    ByKara June 18, 2023April 5, 2026

    Next time you drop a few ice cubes into a cold beverage think of this: many early-20th-century consumers would be wary of your “artificial” ice. Unless of course, your ice happens to be harvested from a lake or a mountain somewhere. The technology to create ice from water was first developed in the mid-1800s, but…

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    Snowball Flavorings 1912 & a History of Baltimore Sno-Balls

    ByKara August 26, 2018April 5, 2026

    Of all the casualties of the car-centric highway age of Baltimore, perhaps the reduction in neighborhood snowball stands looms the largest on sweaty summer strolls through town. The ice cream trucks are great but… just not the same. When in 1977 the Baltimore Sun ran one of their many annual celebrations of the beloved summer…

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