Chocolate Things and Great Aunt Mary
Mary Bess Bailey, my grandmother's sister, was a seamstress before she married Leslie Howard Marshall in 1923. They lived in Ohio, and later had a winter home in Ft Myer. She grew up in Tennessee and Mississippi, but moved to Washington DC when her sister Bernice married Roger Calvert in 1918. Mary loved to read and collect poems- especially about nature. She made clothes, and crocheted beautiful white coverlets and quilted bedspreads. In our house growing up, Aunt Mary was most famous for her hot fudge sauce, her tea brownies, and her chocolate muffins which were always part of Christmas brunch. Here is the hot fudge sauce recipe written in my mother's handwriting. Click on the recipes to make the image larger. And the chocolate muffins. And here's the recipe for tea brownies which cured my homesick blues on a visit to Aunt Mary's in 1970 when I was 11 years old. Aunt Mary's Tea Brownies Brownie Recipe 4 oz Baking Chocolate 1 c butter ( 2 stick...
