In 1948, three recipes of the wife of one Robert Valliant appeared in the now-legendary community cookbook, one that has seen many reprints over the years: “A Cook’s Tour of the Eastern Shore.” The Valliant family lineage is so enmeshed into Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore that it was hard to determine which Robert Valliant I…
A few decades after Lillian Lottier, Marylee Felton was taking the same path: serving the city and community through a career in education.
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…
Cabbage stuffed with meat is a classic combination, with variations all around the world. There’s Polish Gołąbki, cabbage rolls filled with meat and topped in tomato sauce. A Chinese version is stuffed with pork and mushrooms. Early American versions involve stuffing the meat inside the cabbage, as The Townsends and Chef Walter Staib have both…
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.