“Every year in the 50s, my mother, my grandmother and I went downtown to do our Christmas shopping,” A. Zoland Leishear fondly recalled in the Baltimore Sun in 1989. The store had been closed all of two months and the nostalgia was stirred. Leishear recalled a picturesque scene of streetcar wire sparks lighting up the…
“Canned vegetables are not only a great convenience to the housewife, but when fresh, young products are used and canned under careful supervision by modern methods; they retain more of their food value and vitamine content than most freshly cooked vegetables. This has been recently proved by investigations carried on in nutrition laboratories. Therefore, the…
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…
This recipe comes from the “Maryland’s Way” cookbook via a “Mrs. Frederick W. Brune’s Book, 1860.” The source is likely the Brune Family Papers residing at the Maryland Historical Society. Other than delicious cornmeal waffles, the recipe led only to dead ends, with no real resolution or intrigue. There, I said it. The Brune family…
November is upon us, and although the autumnal comforts of the past few posts (biscuits, pies, and cornbread) have been pleasant, I thought I’d better branch out, lest I lose my *edge*. For this week’s installment, I turned to the news for inspiration. The fate of the building once occupied by the famed Haussner’s restaurant…