I have only three persimmon recipes in my database. One is Michael Twitty‘s recipe for Red Straw Persimmon Beer. The other two are for pudding. For practical reasons, I chose one of the latter. (I also used Japanese persimmons from Hungry Harvest.) My recipe was contributed to “Queen Anne Goes to the Kitchen,” by Isabel…
This rich corn soup is not unlike Elizabeth Ellicott Lea’s Corn Fricassee. The flavor of the corn is front and center (or, depending on your palate and your corn, the soup is bland). The attribution in “Maryland’s Way” is “Mrs. Murray’s Bride’s Book, 1858.“ It is possible the recipe is to be found somewhere within…
Before there were ethical questions about organic vegetables, GMOs or factory farming, American consumers were faced with the ultimate ethical consumption conflict: slavery. As we have seen with the issue of baking powder, regional and cultural adoption of foods was sometimes influenced by commitment to the abolitionist movement. While this can mean an aversion to…