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
When Maryland started enforcing car registration laws on Smith Island in 1973, Beverly Guy took it in stride, despite the hassle. Her 1966 Falcon had never been issued the proper inspection certificate. Dealers just didn’t bother when the cars they sold were headed for Smith Island. Between July and August of that year, Guy got…
Fried Green Tomatoes are far from a Maryland-specific food but they fit nicely among Maryland fare for a few reasons. The Southern-ness of Fried Green Tomatoes, mistakenly taken for granted since the 1992 film, is now being exposed as questionable. Maryland, though perhaps not Marylanders, can relate to this questioned Southern identity. Recipes for fried…
When Mercedes V. Rankin shared her recipe for “Portuguese Sweet Bread” in the “Bethel Cookbook”, assembled by the parish of the historic Bethel A.M.E. in 1979, she probably hoped to do her part to raise money for her church. What she surely did not know is that some random weirdo would bake this bread 36…
According to Wikipedia, the word for punch comes from the sanskrit word for “five.” The drink was once made up of five components: water, citrus, alcohol, sugar, and “spice”. According to punch historian David Wondrich, the spice in question could be anything from “nutmeg or tea to ambergris.” (Hey that rhymes!) The flavors of this…
“Eat, Drink and Be Merry in Maryland” again. This bread pudding comes care of Mrs. William D. Poultney. According to the Maryland Historical Society: “The Poultney family were descendants of Ellen North, said to be the first Anglo-American child born in the area that is now Baltimore. Thomas Poultney, Sr. (1826-1887) was a writer under…
“At the funeral of the Queen of Oude, a diadem was placed on her brow,” read a story in the Baltimore Daily Exchange in 1858. The short report, filed under “Foreign Miscellany,” focused on jewels, describing “a necklace of lapiz lazuli round her neck, and circlets of amber round her arms and legs. A number…