Somewhere in the history of nearly every church, there was a cookbook. The authors usually intended to raise money for their church or auxiliary group, but from my vantage point, their efforts would amount to more than just the funds they generated. Church cookbooks are documents of social networks and culinary trends. Sometimes they even…
Yet another quick recipe and quick post… I have some fun stuff in the works behind-the-scenes so please bear with me. I picked up the 1994 “Brentwood Foursquare Gospel Church” cookbook because I don’t do very many recipes from P.G. County even though I grew up there. The recipe was contributed by Marjorie Elton Orewiler….
Warning: This is a pretty macabre story to go with a candy recipe post. It’s October, so if you want you could come up with some intrigue about ghosts in Greenmount Cemetery. If you are more the spiritual type you can think of the connections between food and communion with the dead. A recent run-in…
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…
Cole Slaw or Cold Slaw? I think I’ve personally always called it coleslaw, but I’m not even sure. And we are talking about a food that I love. Cole/d slaw, it turns out, is one of those words that has been adapted to its meaning ala “scrapple” or “gingerbread”. In Dutch ‘koolsla’ means cabbage…