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A celebration of the anonymous women of the 1950's who showed off their skills at the first decade of the Pillsbury Bake-off.
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1949: Chocolate Crusted Pie (opens the original)
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Name on the Recipe Card is a blog series about the unsung heroes of bygone kitchens, who competed and won a place at the national Pillsbury Bake-Off. Who are they? What are their names and stories? For many, they are only known by their husband’s names. Let’s shine a light on who they are and how they lived.Dorothy Monroe’s story begins in Atlantic City in 1920, when she was born Dorothy Witzenfeld on March 7, the older of two girls. Her little sister Meriam—always called Teddy—came along later,
1949: Country Kitchen Donuts (opens the original)
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Marjorie Juanita Prouty—always called Juanita—was born in May 1917 in the tiny farming community of Cumberland, Ohio, the only child of Ernest and Alta Prouty. Her name reflected a national fashion of the era rather than any ethnic heritage: in the early twentieth century, white American families across the country were captivated by Spanish‑sounding names like Juanita, Anita, Inez, and Carmen, swept up in a cultural fascination with the Southwest and romanticized depictions of “Spanish” feminin
1949: Hattie's Garden Crescent Rolls (opens the original)
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Name on the Recipe Card is a blog series about the unsung heroes of bygone kitchens, who competed and won a place at the national Pillsbury Bake-Off. Who are they? What are their names and stories? For many, they are only known by their husband’s names. Let’s shine a light on who they are and how they lived.Hattie Maybell Chambers was born in 1883 in the small farming town of Oakfield, Maine, the second of seven children born to Thomas and Jennie Chambers. Thomas worked as a farmer, and Jennie k
1949: Caramel-Nut Meringue Cake (opens the original)
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Grace Cotton was born in Memphis in 1903, the first child of Arthur and Grace Cotton. When she was little, the family lived in a multigenerational household with Arthur’s parents, and young Grace grew up especially close to her grandmother. But her early childhood was far from calm. In 1907, when Grace was only three, her father filed for divorce, accusing her mother of neglecting her duties and leaving little Grace too often in the care of her grandmother. Yet the couple couldn’t bear the distr
1949: Strawberry Social Pie (opens the original)
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Name on the Recipe Card is a blog series about the unsung heroes of bygone kitchens, who competed and won a place at the national Pillsbury Bake-Off. Who are they? What are their names and stories? For many, they are only known by their husband’s names. Let’s shine a light on who they are and how they lived.T.O. Davis was a difficult man to research and I am deeply grateful for the helping hands of Linda Stufflebean, genealogist extraordinaire, and Sharon Cauley, a very kind librarian at the Way
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