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Last Dinner on RMS Titanic: April 14, 1912

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On that last night before the “unsinkable” Titanic hit an iceberg, its second-class passengers were served a traditional full Edwardian meal. A menu card from this meal, saved by Mrs J. Bertha Marshall (née Watt), is in the collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK.

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Suffrage Angel Cake à la Kennedy

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Eliza Kennedy Smith

Eliza Kennedy Smith (1889-1964) was a suffragette, a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to The Suffrage Cook Book, published by the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania in 1915. Here, her recipe for Suffrage Angel Cake is followed by a modern explanation of the vintage cooking terms and methods, so you can recreate [...]

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7 Recipes for Peach Melba

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When the celebrated French chef August Escoffier invented Pêche Melba — a rich but light dessert of peaches, raspberries, and ice cream, named for the “Australian Nightingale” Nellie Melba — surely he could never have predicted how his original recipe would change over the next few years! Here are six different versions of Pêche Melba [...]

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