Grandma (Lavenia Hargett Marsh) was born on the 27th of December in 1914, on the family farm adjoining Feagaville. Feagaville is a small farming community located on Rt. 180 west of Frederick City, prior to Mt. Zion Road.

Grandma rose at 5:00 am, 7 days a week, to help milk cows on their 90-acre dairy farm. She attended a 2-room schoolhouse in Feagaville that was heated by a wood-burning stove. The so-called “little room” in this school was for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders and the “big room” housed the 4th through 7th grades. Grandma remembers everyone going outside to take turns pumping the well, so they could have water to wash their hands and water to drink. This building is still actively used today as the Feagaville Community Center.

She learned to cook on a wood burning, kitchen stove. Lavenia graduated from Frederick High School in 1932 and Hood College in 1936 (tuition then was $250 if you lived off campus and $500 per year if you lived on campus). She was a Dietician at the Frederick Memorial Hospital and then taught Home Economics in the Frederick County School System for 21 years.

This month’s recipe: