Not only did this recipe give me a chance to utilize a corn-stick pan, it also involved one of my favorite (non-Maryland) historical topics – spite houses! I got this recipe from Maryland’s Way. There it is listed as the receipt of a “Miss Fanny,” of “Atholl” in Anne Arundel County. I couldn’t determine who this…
As a wise person once said: “Green corn, we believe, is essentially a Maryland herb, for here only is it found in full perfection. Go south but a hundred leagues, and the best hotels will serve you corn that leaves a lingering feeling of imitation and inauthenticity. It is, as it were, a bit lousy….
Note: there is some further important background on this book found in this post. A lot of my recent recipes have come from “Maryland’s Way”, the Hammond-Harwood House cookbook, and that is because I am having a bit of a rekindled romance with this book. When I originally started an “Old Line Plate” blog in…
There comes a time in the life of every seasonal fruit, when having been consumed to excess and then lent to some other assortment of creative uses, finally what is left of the fruit must be preserved. In modern times we have some options here. We have freezers and dehydrators, in addition to those methods…
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…