Marietta Gibson dedicated an entire section to “Ices” in her irritatingly repetitive 1894 cookbook, “Mrs. Charles H. Gibson’s Maryland And Virginia Cookbook.” In it, you will find recipes for grape sherbet; coffee ice cream; a ‘bisque’ ice cream filled with crushed meringues; several recipes for chocolate ice cream; a frozen punch spiked with champagne, rum,…
“I suppose they gave it that name because it isn’t real, good, genuine ice-cream—just sort of a sham. You know, a ‘hocus-pocus’ is another word for a ‘hoax,’ or trick. So hokey-pokey ice-cream is a cheat. It’s cold and tastes sweet, but it isn’t good, clean wholesome food.” – Modern Physiology Hygiene and Health primer,…
Eliza Leslie’s “Strawberry Ice” isn’t exactly a Maryland recipe. I made this dessert to partake in the Dundurn Recipe Challenge. Since I didn’t get to a dedicated blog recipe, here it is. Dundurn Castle is a historic site operating as a civic museum in Hamilton Ontario. The mansion was built in 1835, on the site…
Of all the casualties of the car-centric highway age of Baltimore, perhaps the reduction in neighborhood snowball stands looms the largest on sweaty summer strolls through town. The ice cream trucks are great but… just not the same. When in 1977 the Baltimore Sun ran one of their many annual celebrations of the beloved summer…
Now and then I encounter an unfamiliar recipe enough times that I just have to give it a try. Such is the case with “Bisque” Ice Cream, a recipe that has popped up in various forms in 19th-century manuscripts, later transforming into a jello pudding dish before disappearing altogether. 1940s and 50s recipes such as…