First Lady Mamie Eisenhower is most famous to me as the woman who brought pink to American homes. She championed this feminine color and ushered in a new era of pink bathrooms, powder rooms, boudoirs, and clothing. But, for all her femininity she wasn’t much on cooking. In a newspaper article from 1955 the author recalls how she pointedly referred to her husband Dwight as the cook in the family and that she could only make 2 things when they first married: mayonnaise and fudge.
Today we’re making her fudge recipe, first published in a Women’s Press Corp cookbook entitled Who Says We Can’t Cook! From there it was printed in newspapers across the country.
