Treats served at house parties

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NM – Neil MacCannell

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

NM There was lunch served always by the hostess. Just good old-fashioned home-baked bread, and biscuits and jam and that sort of stuff. And sweets, too many sweets those days. They liked to make lots of rich sweets.

KP Like cakes and...

NM Like cakes and squares, date squares, and brownies and so on, cookies