Bangor Brownies (1908); Maine Sardines (1902)

[Ruth Barton]

You tease,  after reading through all that and not one recipe for all those
goodies!!!!!  SHAME!! Ruth






At 7:29 PM -0400 4/30/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>"Bangor, ME?  Why, I don't even know her!"
>--joke as old as the hills, but the "ME" is fairly recent with postal codes
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>BANGOR BROWNIES
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>LOWNEY'S COOK BOOK
>prepared and revised by
>Maria Willett Howard
>Revised Edition
>The Walter M. Lowney Co., Boston
>1908
>
>INDEX
>Brownies, Bangor, 261
>   Lowney's, 278.
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>
>    I went to the Library of Congress to look through the BANGOR DAILY NEWS,
>starting 1902, but did NOT find "Bangor Brownies."  The above "revised" book
>is 1908, but should be at least 1907.  I read the BDN through 1905.
>   DARE doesn't provide any help at all.
>   The web has various hits for Mildred "Brownie" Schrumpf, and she possibly
>will have a bio in the OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD.  She was born in
>1903, graduated from the University of Maine in 1925 with a B.S. in home
>economics, and wrote a weekly column in the BANGOR DAILY NEWS from 1951-1993.
> She authored THE FLAVOR OF MAINE (1976) and MEMORIES FROM BROWNIE'S KITCHEN
>(1989).  However, she did not coin "brownie" as a toddler.
>
>15 February 1902, BANGOR DAILY NEWS, pg. 11, cols. 1-2:
>NICE THINGS MADE FROM CHOCOLATE. (...)
>CONVALESCENTS' DRINK...
>PIERRE BOLT'S CHOCOLATE...
>EGG CHOCOLATE...
>CHOCOLATE CUSTARDS...
>BAVARIAN CHOCOLATE CREAM...
>CHOCOLATE CANDIES...
>CHOCOLATE CAKE...
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Ruth Barton
mrgjb at sover.net
Westminster, VT