Sarah Tyson Rorer

A Maryland paper in 1894 described the thing as black as only his satanic majesty can be, which is the sort of sentence newspapers used to permit themselves.

And in 1902, Sarah Tyson Rorer published what is generally credited as the first recipe under that full name, and then called her cake Fit for Angels.

By the early teens, it was everywhere.

And one cookbook of 1913 included it 23 times.

But Wyman, your cooking is something awful." "I am quite of your opinion," said I to lead him on, for I read jesting in his eyes.

"Now," he went on, "Miss Nelly, on the other hand, is another Mrs. Rorer.

Her pies are just the sort that mother used to make.

And for dinner, think of it, she promises a raspberry dumpling.