As a wise person once said: “Green corn, we believe, is essentially a Maryland herb, for here only is it found in full perfection. Go south but a hundred leagues, and the best hotels will serve you corn that leaves a lingering feeling of imitation and inauthenticity. It is, as it were, a bit lousy….
Note: there is some further important background on this book found in this post. A lot of my recent recipes have come from “Maryland’s Way”, the Hammond-Harwood House cookbook, and that is because I am having a bit of a rekindled romance with this book. When I originally started an “Old Line Plate” blog in…
There comes a time in the life of every seasonal fruit, when having been consumed to excess and then lent to some other assortment of creative uses, finally what is left of the fruit must be preserved. In modern times we have some options here. We have freezers and dehydrators, in addition to those methods…
On a recent hike I noticed that the bushes around me were teeming with the fuzzy red buds of soon-to-be wineberries. I came back and gathered as much as I had the patience for in humid Maryland July weather. I love to blather on about my childhood days spent gathering, preserving and baking blackberries but…
I’m making a quick post before the holiday weekend to share this recipe which we make frequently in the summer with our CSA radishes. So that makes it a Maryland recipe. Burgersub has been making this for years but was uncertain of its origin although he knew it was possibly based on something his Polish…