Sugar-Top Apple Cake, Lucretia Harris
“She is one of the best cooks who ever walked.”
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Milk Punch, Cookery Notebook of George Dobbin Brown
The twenty-five recipes for Milk Punch in my database all contain similar ingredients: milk, rum or brandy, nutmeg, sugar. For years now I’ve been intending to make one of these recipes for eggnog’s cousin (or rival, depending on who you ask). It was only this year that I noticed that these punch recipes, with their…
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Kapusta And Kilbash (and Sauerkraut for Thanksgiving)
Sauerkraut came to Baltimore with German (and later, Eastern European) immigrants, but it made the leap to the dinner tables of Baltimore’s other citizens, in particular alongside the Thanksgiving turkey.
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Broiled Chicken Deluxe, Edna Karlik
Mrs. Ronie Venables made honorable-mention in the first annual “National Chicken Cooking Contest” at the Delmarva Chicken Festival in 1949. Were she able to prepare her fried chicken on a wood-burning stove, she told a Universal Press reporter, she could have beaten out Mrs. A.L. Karlik for first place. The Press reporter contrasted the two…
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“Hoppin’ John -for New Year’s Eve” – Louise Kelly
The 1958 cookbook by the National Council of Negro Women, the “Historical Cookbook of the American Negro,” opens with a photograph of Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln, opposite recipes for the first of January: “Emancipation Proclamation Breakfast Cake” and “Western Beef Steak” from Denver. “The Emancipation Proclamation New Years’ Day, 1863, is celebrated in all…
