I prepared these for New Years brunch. Totally a perfect wintery-celebration side dish.
(Presented in my favorite green ceramic serving dish, photo c/o Abby.)
Maryland’s Way: The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book
(Waste not want not)
1906 postcard c/o Southern Heritage cookbook
According to culinary historian Michael Twitty, cymlings “have a special place in early African American history as they were one of the few squash commonly grown and consumed by the enslaved community.” And certainly this recipe hails from a plantation where that fact is relevant. “The Plains” (also known as Ophan’s Gift, demolished in 1958)…
Depending on how you look at it, the legend of the origin of the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail has been uncovered over the years – or just sured up to incorporate the available facts.
When I saw all the bountiful berry offerings from Reid’s Orchard at the Waverly Farmers Market, I had to take action. Nearly all of my Maryland cookbooks contain recipes for currant jelly. It was popular with meats, especially game such as venison. It is also a frequent ingredient in more complicated sauces containing onions and…
I imagine that Anna D. Cannon had some stories. After graduating high school in 1942, she became the first female school bus driver in Montgomery County, and worked the job for 30 years. Unfortunately, Anna is another person whose stories I may never know. I know only that she was born in 1924 in Garrett…
Outside of the German peach cake, or the Indian chutney that made its way into Mrs. B.C. Howard’s recipe collection, non-English and African influences aren’t always obvious in the recipes I work from. A lot of cooking traditions were passed down orally in immigrant communities, or else handwritten recipe manuscripts of everyday citizens didn’t make…
I’ve come across a fair share of librarians in my cookbooks. Librarians might be next behind home economists as far as professions of recipe-contributors goes. Unfortunately, I could find scarce information about Ruth Wood, who contributed this “good luncheon dish” to “Once Upon A Thyme in Charles Village” in 1972. Her name is too common…