I made this pie weeks ago. Maybe months now? At the time, I was living in a lot of fear of exposing myself or others to the virus. Those fears are still there, but we’ve since adapted a little better. As weeks went by without grocery shopping, I felt a more personal perspective on some…
Once again a second visit with a cookbook reveals a new dimension to it: this time its the 1973 “Rosemary Hills International Community Cookbook,” compiled by Gwendolyn Coffield and Juanita Hamby. The book is an early celebration of the DC suburbs’ growing diversity. In 2002, the Washington Post ran an article about the Lyttonsville neighborhood…
Here’s another recipe from a Western Maryland church cookbook. This time, St. Pauls Church Clear Spring Maryland. The contributor, Mrs. Fay Kahl-Winter, was originally from Georgia, born in 1933, full name Audrey Fay Attaway. When this cookbook was published, she was married to Herbert Kahl-Winter. In 1976 she married Robert Curtis Shaffer.
Sabillasville is a small town on the Pennsylvania border, north of Frederick. I forget where I got this cookbook but it seemed like a good one to learn about a new place and cover some more “Western” Maryland recipes. Alas, things did not pan out so well. The town of Sabillasville was officially founded in…
The Wikipedia entry for “Chess pie” offers up several possible explanations for the name – the pie is named for a piece of furniture called a pie chest, or for the town of Chester, England. Some theories are just silly. “It’s jes’ pie.” Okay… whatever. The likely explanation is that “chess pie” evolved from recipes…