“The fame of the Maryland apple is perhaps less known at home than in distant markets. The Maryland apple has never figured to any great extent in the lobster palaces in the Broadway section in New York at $1 per apple. It is a good apple, nevertheless.” – The Baltimore Sun, 1911 A Baltimore fruit…
It’s pretty rare that I should have *too much information* about a person associated with a recipe. For years now I’ve sighed in frustration when all I can find on someone is a date of birth, a passing newspaper mention, a headstone. This week’s recipe comes from a woman who has been so scrutinized and…
There aren’t many recipes specifically for blackberry pie. Usually, older recipes for “berry pie” will specify that blackberries, blueberries, or raspberries can be used. Blackberry pie has been a longtime favorite of mine. I grew up making them with my grandmother so I wanted to make one for her birthday in September. I have also…
It may be impossible to know how many lesser-known Maryland cookbooks have been published and lost to time. I’ve spent many hours obsessively searching the internet, library catalogs, bibliographies, and bookstores for titles to add to my list – especially anything from the 19th century or close to it. A search of digitized newspapers once…
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…