Once again I turned to The Park School Cookbook for some low-stress dinner ideas. I’m getting a surprising amount of mileage out of this little book. The recipe comes from Victoria Frank Albert, who was actually a grand-daughter of the school’s founder, Eli Frank, Sr. In my decades of living in Baltimore, I’ve noticed the…
I was recently at the Pratt Library, working on my Maryland recipe database when I hit the milestone of 20,000 recipes. I figured I should make a note of the twenty-thousandth record: “Ham Timbales”, contributed to “Random Ruxton Recipes” (1953) by Mrs. Colin Montgomery. Timbales, which share etymology with the drum of the same name,…
“While recipes may differ slightly, at least one thing remains the same: the only way to eat a coddie is with yellow mustard!” – Gilbert Sandler, Glimpses of Jewish Baltimore In the rush to canonize crabcakes, a lot of other regional foods have been pushed to the fray. That’s basically what this blog is about….
“The Baltimore Sun is trying to coax the Governor of Maryland to appoint a yankee festival…Why don’t our Governor move in the important matter of appointing a day for thanksgiving? Pumpkin pies are coming from all quarters, and no day set apart yet.” – The Baltimore Sun, 11/15/1837 The Baltimore Sun was in its infancy…
Warning: This is a pretty macabre story to go with a candy recipe post. It’s October, so if you want you could come up with some intrigue about ghosts in Greenmount Cemetery. If you are more the spiritual type you can think of the connections between food and communion with the dead. A recent run-in…