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    Mapping the 1936 “Lovely Lane Cook Book”

    ByKara July 23, 2021April 5, 2026

    I first saw this cookbook in the Maryland Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Initially, I was distracted by the many ads throughout the book for long-defunct Baltimore businesses. I photographed many of the ads and came home to realize I had not documented the recipes. When I made Hallie A. Shinnamon’s Christmas Cookie…

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    Christmas Cookies, Hallie A. Shinnamon

    ByKara December 28, 2019April 5, 2026

    This belated Christmas Cookie recipe from the Lovely Lane Methodist Church in Old Goucher is inadvertently my third post in a row related to places I’ve lived. Lovely Lane has produced at least two cookbooks that I’m aware of – one from the 1990s and one from 1936. Both are called “Lovely Lane Cook Book.”…

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