Shepherd’s Pie, Sally Ann Mickel
A few weeks later I found myself in her house, flipping through a recipe scrapbook that had belonged to her mother-in-law.
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Beef A La Mode, Mary Ann Buchanan Coale
Beef a la Mode dates to the 1600s, but persisted long enough to make an appearance in volume one of Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”
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Chicken Casserole, Mrs. Corneal J. Mack
The Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC has an oddly long Wikipedia page. It’s almost as long as the page about the Watergate Complex. It mentions trysts of Presidents Kennedy and Clinton. Presidential inaugural balls. A Nazi plot to sabotage the US that ended in betrayal. J. Edgar Hoover eating the same lunch every day: “chicken…
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Chicken Shortcake Eileen, Mrs. Lillian Weisberg
The National Chicken Cooking Contest may have been “National,” but the celebrated ingredient at its center was “Delmarva Chicken,” and the press on the peninsula didn’t forget it. As usual, the Salisbury Maryland Daily Times reported heavily on the contest in 1957. Entrants came from 12 states to compete in the crown jewel event at…
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Mrs. B. C. Howard’s “Binderloo” Curry
Benjamin Chew Howard wrote genuinely loving letters to his wife, the former Jane Grant Gilmor. In one he quoted a poem, telling Mrs. Howard “time has not ‘dimmed your eye.’” It was 1835 and Jane Howard was 34, hardly an old matron. Still, the sentiment was sweet. The letters between Mr. and Mrs. B. C….
