Dear Friends, If you recall, I began writing a novel set in Maryland this year. I’m enjoying the Quaker Woman’s Cookbook and I’ve been making my way through “The Annals of Sandy Spring.” These original sources are fantastic, but if you’re a person of a certain age, you may recall taking “state history,” most oftenContinueContinue reading “Texas…has a textbook in it”
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The Quaker Woman’s Cookbook, or so it begins…with a pound cake
The pound cake: a simple egg, butter, and flour cake (one pound each), but here’s the thing about it: it can absorb all sorts of ingredients: lemon, vanilla, nutmeg, rose water, oranges. While the blandness of the pound cake suggests the blandness of mid-20th Century American food with all traces of “ethnicity” pounded out ofContinueContinue reading “The Quaker Woman’s Cookbook, or so it begins…with a pound cake”