I don’t know about you but I’m not through with corn just yet. You can hold the pumpkin until I’m done scraping kernels from the last fresh cob I can find.I like to broil it (or grill it) and add it to things or freeze for later. This time I opted for a plain corn pudding…
[When referencing this research please cite this website or my book: Old Line Plate: Stories & Recipes from Maryland, Kara Mae Harris, 2022] Here in Baltimore, the ever-booming crab cake trade is propping up more than just restaurants and tourism. Advertisers make embarrassing attempts to appeal to our obsession. There’s documentaries about the search for…
Home Economics as a professional pursuit codified “women’s work” and amended school curricula, but it also opened doors for women professionally. The name Virginia Roeder may ring a bell to longtime Baltimore recipe collectors. For 23 years she wrote for the “women’s pages” of the Baltimore Evening Sun, offering guidance on cooking and housekeeping. She…
Recipe seekers: For a better Smearcase cheesecake recipe post, click here! While many Baltimoreans get excitable about the annual Peach Cake tradition, Peach Cake’s Plain Jane cousin Smearcase gets somewhat overlooked. I do mean that literally. With a similar German origin to Peach Cake, Smearcase cake can often be found in the same bakery cases,…
This summer we took a vacation to Cincinnati (with many stops on the way). It seems very de rigeur these days for travelers through southwestern WV to sample their famous regional hot dog establishments, so that is what we did. With some guidance from the West Virginia Hot Dog Blog, we saw some sights, ate…