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If you’re from Southern Maryland, you know that springtime and Easter are Stuffed Ham time!  Do you prefer more kale or more cabbage? 

Share your recipes and stories about stuffed ham traditions in your experience with the Great Maryland Recipe Hunt and the Maryland State Archives at www.marylandrcipes.org. Gift future generations of Marylanders with your food traditions! 

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Soup is still a go-to meal as winter makes its last blast in Maryland. What’s your favorite Maryland soup? Maryland Crab, Cream of Carb, or maybe you can’t decide and go for Half and Half? What about Oyster Soup, Brunswick Stew, Okra and Tomato? Share your favorite Maryland soup recipes and stories about with the Great Maryland Recipe Hunt and the Maryland State Archives at www.marylandrcipes.org. Gift future generations of Marylanders with your food traditions! 

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One of many culinary skills Marylanders having is knowing how to bake cakes! What’s your favorite? Smith Island Cake? Deale Island Devil Cream Cake? Smearcase Cheesecake? Baltimore Peach Cake? The Maryland State Archives wants to know your favorite Maryland cake recipes; share them with the Great Maryland Recipe Hunt at www.marylandrcipes.org.

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Suppers at houses of worship in Maryland play an important role in the Old Line State’s culinary heritage. The ad for a church supper at St. Anne’s Church in Annapolis is from February 1922. Notice the seasonal oysters on the menu!

Share memories of your favorite pot-luck suppers held at a Maryland church, synagogue, or other house of worship with the Great Maryland Recipe Hunt at www.marylandrcipes.org.

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The Great Maryland Recipe Hunt is collecting more than just recipes; accounts of favorite restaurants and meals are also being sought. The stories and memories of our favorite food moments are just as important as recipes. To get you started, please share your favorite restaurant birthday meal with the Maryland State Archives at www.marylandrcipes.org.

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Share your Mardi Gras recipes with the Maryland State Archives at www.marylandrcipes.org.

How do you empty your cabinets of ingredients forbidden during lent? Do you enjoy pancakes, King cake or fasnachts/kinklings?

Did you know that in the Medieval days in Europe, meats, dairy, and sugar (if you were lucky enough to get it) were all forbidden on fast days? Also, the Christmas feasting season often extended to Mardi Gras. This explains why so many Twelfth Night traditions are similar to Mardi Gras—the cake, the crowning of a king, queen or lord of misrule, and the reversal of social roles between the upper and lower classes.  

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This Week’s Theme is THANKSGIVING TURKEY WITH A MARYLAND TWIST –Share your Maryland recipes at www.marylandrecipes.org – they will be archived for future generations at the #MarylandStateArchives

Does your Thanksgiving turkey have a Maryland twist? Do you stuff it with oysters, cornbread, chestnuts? Do you season it with Old Bay? DO you serve it with sauerkraut? Share your Turkey Day traditions and recipes at www.marylandrecipes.org so they can be preserved at the Maryland State Archives!

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This Week’s Theme is SOUPS AND STEWS –Share your Maryland recipes for soups and stews at www.marylandrecipes.org – they will be archived for future generations at the #MarylandStateArchives

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This Week’s Theme is foods with PUMPKIN AND/OR PUMPKIN SPICE –Share your recipes for the benefit of future generations at www.marylandrecipes.org

Here is a c.1845 Baltimore recipe for 

PUMPKIN PUDDINGS:

Stew a fine sweet pumpkin till soft & dry, rub it thru a sieve, mix with the pulp 6 eggs quite light, a qt lb. of butter, half a pd of new milk, some pounded sugar & nutmeg, a wine glass of brandy & sugar to the taste. If it be too liquid, [make] it a little dryer, put a paste in a shallow dish or plate, pour in the mixture ? additional bits of paste & lay them across the top, & bake it nicely

Source: The Sarah D. Griffen, Clyde Griffen, and Margaret Thibault Collection of Goldsborough Family Papers, 1845; Collection #: MSA.SC.2085-13-; Baltimore City (Maryland State Archives)

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This Week’s Theme is HOMEMADE CANDY – Do you make your own candy? Share your recipes for the benefit of future generations at www.marylandrecipes.org.

According to legend fudge was invented in Baltimore in the late 19th century. No definitive evidence proves this assertion made by a Vassar College student who was told this by a classmate from Baltimore. Nevertheless, with Halloween approaching it’s a good time for you to share your recipes for homemade candy. 

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This Week’s Theme is WINTER SQUASH – What are your favorite ways to use winter squash? 

Share your recipes for the benefit of future generations at www.marylandrecipes.org.

Winter squash, including pumpkins, were among the principal crops cultivated by the three main indigenous nations of people who called Maryland home long before European settlement, including Algonquin, Iroquois, and Siouan speaking peoples. Dawn Manyfeathers, a member of the Lenape subtribe of the Algonquin Nation, published a cookbook in 2002 called Cooking Wild Foods the American Indian Way in which she includes a delectable recipe for Butternut Squash Soup made with honey, pumpkin seeds, and wild onions and one for Pumpkin Candy!

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This Week’s Theme is Sausage – What Distinguishes Maryland Sausage from Others?

Manuscript recipe books from the 19th century usually contain lots of recipes for sausage, proving it was a staple item on the menu in many Maryland households. The common link (get the pun?!) connecting Maryland’s sausage recipes is the use of black pepper, red pepper, sage, thyme and sometime sweet marjoram. 

WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON THE PERFECT MARYLAND SAUSAGE RECIPE?  Please consider sharing your recipes for the benefit of future generations with #TheGreatMarylandRecipeHunt at www.marylandrecipes.org

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This Week’s Theme is Cornmeal – A Maryland Staple Dating Back Thousands of Years

Cornmeal has a long history in Maryland as the staple cereal grain used by indigenous First Peoples, European settlers, and those brought to Maryland to work as enslaved laborers. An 18th century firsthand account of its importance to the diet is attributed to a document written in the 1740s by Edward Kimber (1719-1769) who chronicled his experiences traveling in Maryland. On one of his trips to Worcester County on the Eastern Shore, Kimber observed that cornmeal was malted to make into a liquor and that cornmeal mush and hominy were among items of the “principal diet.”

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE MARYLAND RECIPE USING CORNMEAL?  Please consider sharing your recipes for the benefit of future generations with #TheGreatMarylandRecipeHunt at www.marylandrecipes.org

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The World is Your Oyster on the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay

EVER HEARD OF OYSTER MERROIR? Merroir is defined as the “taste of the sea” meaning that oysters, much like fine wine, chocolate, tea,, coffee, and capsicum peppers, are subject to variations in taste and texture (in the case of oysters) based on their growing environment. As a result, some oysters are better for eating on the half-shell and others are better for cooking purposes. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE OYSTER MARYLAND RECIPE OR FOOD MEMORY?  Share these with #TheGreatMarylandRecipeHunt at www.marylandrecipes.org. 

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Fall means more than just the onset of pumpkin spice season! 

As the days start to shorten and the air starts to get a bit cooler, yearnings for autumnal treats start to surface. What’s your favorite Fall Maryland recipe or food memory?  Share these with #TheGreatMarylandRecipeHunt at www.marylandrecipes.org. 

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Did you know that sweet potatoes were a crucial element of the diets of enslaved Marylanders? Their high nutrient and calorie content, stodginess, and delightful taste made them the perfect food for enslaved workers to grow in order to supplement meagre rations. 

Sweet potatoes come in a variety of colors in addition to orange such as white, yellow and purple, and they can be made into pies, pones, rolls, biscuits, breads, casseroles, and many other dishes.

What’s your favorite Maryland sweet potato recipe or memory of sharing sweet potato treats with family and friends? Share these with #TheGreatMarylandRecipeHunt at www.marylandrecipes.org

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Did you know that in the 17th century British settlers to Maryland were encouraged to plant apple seeds? No surprise then that one of the most popular drinks in the earliest British settlement at St. Mary’s City was apple cider! Boiled cider was also listed at that time, which was probably a reduction of cider made into a concentrated apple molasses used to flavor drinks and foods such as apple pie.

Besides cider, the versatile apple can be made into butter, sauce, brandy, pies, cakes, toddy, pudding, and so many more recipes!

What are your favorite Maryland apple recipes or memories of sharing apple treats with family and friends? Share these (and those of any other topic) with #TheGreatMarylandRecipeHunt at www.marylandrecipes.org

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Help launch the Great Maryland Recipe Hunt, a project by #hammondharwoodhouse and the #MarylandStateArchives to collect and preserve Maryland's delicious, diverse, and distinctive fare. Let's start by submitting favorite Labor Day recipes and food memories (but all culinary topics welcome at all times). Please use the website's online submission form: http://marylandrecipes.org/online-submission-form 

Thanks for helping to preserve Maryland's culinary history! 

Partner organizations (historic sites, libraries, senior centers, etc.) are being sought to spread the word. See  http://marylandrecipes.org/partnership-packet for more details!

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