Mrs. Snapp’s Peach Cake
It took me several years to attempt this recipe, but the results were indeed excellent.
It took me several years to attempt this recipe, but the results were indeed excellent.
I’ve been a fan of the cheddar-apple pie combination for many years now and I often make my apple pies with a cheddar cheese crust. Somehow, I’d never considered doing the same for peach pies. I made this simple pie for a Labor Day crab feast and my family raved about it – despite the…
NOTE: For a better at-home Baltimore Peach Cake recipe click here Baltimore Peach Cake seems to be the bane of local recipe writers. By 1966, Evening Sun food columnist Virginia Roeder was exasperatedly telling readers “as for peach cake, I have published the recipe several times.” In 1958, she wrote about how she was bombarded…
This recipe for an alternate version of Baltimore Peach Cake** comes from “Black-Eyed Susan Country,” another popular Maryland fund-raising cookbook. This particular book, first printed in 1987, raised money for St. Agnes Hospital. Onetime St. Agnes Auxiliary president Mary Parga was a volunteer at the White House, and used her connections to compile the book’s notable “VIP”…