Olney Inn Sweet Potatoes
I need a scanner
Recipe from the historic Olney Inn via Maryland’s Way (yet again).
Here’s a really great link about the Olney Inn with recipes, including the apparently more famous “Olney Inn Sweet Potato Souflee”. Came across that one all over the web. I’ll have to try it sometime.
“It was a wonderful place to dine and had been a staple of success in Olney since 1926 when Clara May Downey opened the restaurant with 3 tables. Dignitaries, Congressman, and Presidents and their families dined in the beautiful Olney Inn.”
A few more Olney pictures here.
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The dish:
I’m probably too biased to rate this recipe because this alone looks delicious to me.
And this.
I will say however that I’m enjoying Sherry as a flavor in food.
It was awesome and I had it as breakfast and lunch for several days.
Caramel Carrots
Alexander Randall (1803-1881) was a prominent lawyer and businessman in Annapolis. He was a U.S. Congressman (Whig Party) from 1841 through 1843 representing Anne Arundel and part of Howard County as well as sections of Baltimore City. As a strong Unionist, he served from 1864 through 1868 during the Civil War and Reconstruction era as Attorney General of Maryland.Alexander Randall and Elizabeth Blanchard Randall (1827-1896) had seven children, Blanchard, Burton, Elizabeth, Henry, Daniel, Wyatt and Adelaide. Their son Blanchard Randall(1857-1942) was a prominent businessmen in the firm of Bill and Fiske in Baltimore and a philanthropist who served on the City-Wide Congress held in 1911 to establish the Baltimore Museum of Art….Susan Katherine Brune (1860-1937), wife of Blanchard Randall, was the great-granddaughter of Ambrose Clark, a prominent Baltimore merchant who traded with the West Indies and Europe in the late 18th and early 19th Century.“ – Maryland Historical Society
Oh hi. Just imagine if I had the time to go to the MD Historical Society and read all these letters to Blanchard Randall. They’re all there:
4 folders
Incoming Correspondence, 1891-1936
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1915
Reminiscences, undated
Passport, 1892
..at the historical society. Maybe he ‘reminiscences’ about his wife’s carrots.
They were good. I like carrots.
Yes the ice is for show.
When I took this photo there was steam rising from the carrots. I thought about drawing little steam lines to demonstrate but that seems too absurd for this dignified venture.
When I was peppering this with my peppermill from Sav-A-Lot, the peppermill broke open and I had to pick all these peppercorns out of here before bringing it to brunch.
As is often the case when drippings are called for I cooked a few slices of bacon first.
I don’t have any fresh parsley right now but good ole vapid dry parsley worked in a kind of aesthetically pleasing way.
Aromatic Broiled Chicken
smoked paprika again. always
Well this chicken turned out pretty great. I got the chicken that was already cut up so.. no fiasco.
old line plate photographer Abby Logsdon makes raw chicken look less repulsive than in my photos
sherry and spices
I added some carrots and onions to make it a meal.
ew I hate the berry creams!
Hot Slaw , Governor Lloyd Lowndes family
This sufficiently tasty but not outstandingly delicious recipe comes to us courtesy of the family of Governor Lloyd Lowndes, governor of Maryland from 1896 to 1900. Lowndes’ lineage can be traced back to an early Maryland merchant settler and beyond, but I can’t find much readily available about his governing. I’m sure that further research is possible but I don’t have a book deal or anything so…. you know.
Cabbage is a pretty ideal crop for Maryland
, and my books contain a variety of soups, slaws and meat dishes incorporating cabbage.
This one was a little different and exceptionally simple. I used red cabbage because it looks cool. The cabbage continued to cook itself too long and I may have ended up with more of a cooked cabbage dish than a ‘slaw,’ but as I said before it was palatable.
Sorry about the quality of the photos.
I’m as bad at photography as I am at cooking. At least I can sort of write?