I first saw this cookbook in the Maryland Room of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Initially, I was distracted by the many ads throughout the book for long-defunct Baltimore businesses. I photographed many of the ads and came home to realize I had not documented the recipes. When I made Hallie A. Shinnamon’s Christmas Cookie…
There has probably been no greater force for the dissemination of recipes developed by home cooks than recipe contests. State and county fairs in the 19th century hosted many cooking contests as a part of their “ladies” programming. These fairs were an opportunity for women gather and to show off their “domestic arts”, from needlework…
The 725 recipes in “Maryland’s Way” were gathered from a variety of manuscripts and old cookbooks as well as from personal recipe collections of friends and colleagues of Mrs. Frances Kelly and Mrs. Hope Andrews (which is why they are concentrated in Anne Arundel County). Many of the recipes were adapted and adjusted by Alice…
Hopefully the first of several recipe maps on Old Line Plate, I’ve put the 512 recipes in “Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland” on a map. A lot are just pinned to counties, but if you zoom in you can also view recipes connected to specific locations like hotels, steamship ports, and manors. The Maryland Historical…