It may be impossible to know how many lesser-known Maryland cookbooks have been published and lost to time. I’ve spent many hours obsessively searching the internet, library catalogs, bibliographies, and bookstores for titles to add to my list – especially anything from the 19th century or close to it. A search of digitized newspapers once…
NOTE: For a better at-home Baltimore Peach Cake recipe click here Baltimore Peach Cake seems to be the bane of local recipe writers. By 1966, Evening Sun food columnist Virginia Roeder was exasperatedly telling readers “as for peach cake, I have published the recipe several times.” In 1958, she wrote about how she was bombarded…
Of all the casualties of the car-centric highway age of Baltimore, perhaps the reduction in neighborhood snowball stands looms the largest on sweaty summer strolls through town. The ice cream trucks are great but… just not the same. When in 1977 the Baltimore Sun ran one of their many annual celebrations of the beloved summer…
Now and then I encounter an unfamiliar recipe enough times that I just have to give it a try. Such is the case with “Bisque” Ice Cream, a recipe that has popped up in various forms in 19th-century manuscripts, later transforming into a jello pudding dish before disappearing altogether. 1940s and 50s recipes such as…
In his 1951 history of Baltimore, “The Amiable Baltimoreans,” F. F. Beirne admitted that “in spite of all the enthusiastic praise of chicken á la Maryland, the scandal is that few persons even in Baltimore actually know what it is.”