A quick internet search reveals that most of the popular recipes these days have brief, memorable names. The exceptions are generally branded like “Cheesecake Factory Beef Wellington” or things that list their contents ala “Cheese, Potato, Sausage, Black Pepper, and Pimento Casserole.” I do a lot of examination of the ways in which recipes get…
If there were definitive proof that fudge was invented in Baltimore, we’d never hear the end of it.
“While recipes may differ slightly, at least one thing remains the same: the only way to eat a coddie is with yellow mustard!” – Gilbert Sandler, Glimpses of Jewish Baltimore In the rush to canonize crabcakes, a lot of other regional foods have been pushed to the fray. That’s basically what this blog is about….
I’ve never really been a “cake person.” For baking and eating, my memories tend to reside in the pie zone. Then last year, when I graduated from reading the published canon of Maryland cookbooks on to the special collections at Maryland Historical Society, I began to notice a high ratio of cake recipes in personal…
Aside from the delicious and intoxicating experiment with Cherry Bounce, I’ve neglected to incorporate cherry desserts into this blog. The reason is pretty obvious – cherries rarely outlast the snacking phase. The 1921 “Report of the Maryland Agricultural Society” made note that “Cherries have never been considered as one of the money makers for Maryland,” and…