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…
“From 1896 to until 1954, they never really accepted the doctrine of “separate but equal” to which they now look back with so much longing.They embraced the “separate” all right, but with stubborn consistency rejected the “equal.”One gathers the impression that the only decision which has ever won their wholehearted approval was that of Chief…
Recently, en route to Chincoteague, we made a stop at the “Old Wye Mill” in Wye Mills. We arrived just as this historic mill was winding into production, producing the week’s run of corn meal, grits or flour. This mill has been “nearly continuously grinding grain since 1682,″ and nearly a century after that produced…