Marietta Gibson dedicated an entire section to “Ices” in her irritatingly repetitive 1894 cookbook, “Mrs. Charles H. Gibson’s Maryland And Virginia Cookbook.” In it, you will find recipes for grape sherbet; coffee ice cream; a ‘bisque’ ice cream filled with crushed meringues; several recipes for chocolate ice cream; a frozen punch spiked with champagne, rum,…
It took me several years to attempt this recipe, but the results were indeed excellent.
In the summer of 1963, Grace Peterman Cowger and her three siblings organized an anniversary party for her parents. Clifford and Marian Peterman had wed on July 30th, 1913 in Princess Anne on the Eastern Shore where, like themselves, generations of Grace’s family had lived and farmed. The Salisbury Daily Times ran a photo of…
“Maryland Cooking,” a 1948 book produced by the Maryland Home Economics Association, is certainly a classic documentation of our region. I’ve reached for this book again and again for inspiring recipes, and have uncovered some of the lives of the teachers and home economists behind each handwritten recipe I’ve made. The book has some interesting…
We have a barbecue tradition in Maryland other than pit beef?