On a recent hike I noticed that the bushes around me were teeming with the fuzzy red buds of soon-to-be wineberries. I came back and gathered as much as I had the patience for in humid Maryland July weather. I love to blather on about my childhood days spent gathering, preserving and baking blackberries but…
I’m making a quick post before the holiday weekend to share this recipe which we make frequently in the summer with our CSA radishes. So that makes it a Maryland recipe. Burgersub has been making this for years but was uncertain of its origin although he knew it was possibly based on something his Polish…
“The disservice done the public by commercially fried chicken is perpetuating the fallacy that Southern fried, by definition, is crisp, crunchy, and deep fried. There is more to it than that, for there are other ways to fry a chicken. So how does a Southerner fry chicken at home? He coats the disjointed chicken with…
Old Maryland cookbooks such as “Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland” tend to have a good amount of space dedicated to alcoholic beverages, whether their purpose is social, medicinal, or for further use in the kitchen. Edwin Tunis Illustration, “Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland” For typical servants and housewives, brewing and alcoholic…
This is another recipe from B.C. Howard’s “Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen.” Although separated by half a century, I think of her book as the Maryland version of Mary Randolph’s “The Virginia Housewife,” and refer to the latter as a useful cross-reference for some of the recipes (such as this one). Both books entail…