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Tag Archives: Richmond
A Mighty Mint Cordial
By this time of the summer, mint threatens to overrun my garden. The sprigs that I welcomed when they poked up through the icy soil now crowd my rosemary and parsley. What better way to thin them than to pick … Continue reading
Posted in cocktails, cookbooks, Food, history, History
Tagged 1850s, brandy, cognac, Early American Beverages, Mary Randolph, mint, Richmond, Virginia
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Hurry Up Curry: Convenience from the 1930s
In this age of microwave dinners and mail order meal kits, we all seem intent on erasing every extra second from food preparation. My Richmond grandmother, Hanna, was attracted to the same idea in the 1930s.
Posted in Food, history, History, memoir
Tagged 1930s, chicken, curry, grandmother, one-dish meal, raisins, rice, Richmond
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Peach Cake Rushes the Season
A week of gloomy weather in Boston means it’s time for a sunny recipe. This peach-almond kuchen does double duty for Mother’s Day
Posted in Food, history, memoir
Tagged almonds, kuchen, Mother's Day, peach, Richmond, Virginia
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For Washington’s Birthday: Easy Cherry Sherbet from the 1930s
The 1930s – the era that brought us the Great Depression as well as an end to Prohibition – also brought us some of our most enduring kitchen convenience products, such as Miracle Whip and Bisquick. This was also the … Continue reading
Christmas Welcoming Bread
Take ordinary baking powder biscuits, top them with a sugary fruit and nut mix, and suddenly they transform into Christmas bread. That’s what the Michie Tavern in Charlottesville, Virginia served in the 1700’s,
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Tagged 1780s, baking, biscuits, bread, Charlottesville, Christmas, icing, Junior League, Michie Tavern, Richmond, Virginia
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6-4-2-1 Equals a Family Cocktail
The recipe paper-clipped inside one of my grandmother’s cooking pamphlets sounds like a scientific formula: 6 orange juice, 4 ging, 2 vermouth, 1 lemon.
Posted in cocktails, Food, History, memoir
Tagged 1930s, cocktail, ginger ale, lemon juice, orange juice, Prohibition, Richmond, vermouth, Virginia
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Sunshine in a Jar
Berries go into preserves, tomatoes into sauce, right? That’s what I always thought until I found my grandmother Hanna’s recipe for Yellow Tomato Preserves.
Posted in cookbooks, Food, history, memoir
Tagged 1930s, Fannie Farmer, ginger, grandmother, lemon, preserves, Richmond, The Virginia House-Wife, tomatoes, Virginia, yellow tomatoes
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Freshly Picked and Marinated
Marinated vegetables usually remind me of mushrooms dripping with oil, plus already-soggy white bread on the side. Yet a 1980s recipe from the Richmond Times-Dispatch tempted me because in the past month, I’ve eaten enough crudités to feel like Peter … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, French, Richmond, salad, Thomas Jefferson, Times-Dispatch, vinaigrette, Virginia, yellow squash
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Candied Virginia Tomatoes From a Surprising Source
Inside a booklet that promised nothing more than Great Ideas for Barbecues & Summer Meals (Family Circle, 1983), I ended up finding a recipe for Thomas Jefferson’s Candied Tomatoes sent in by someone I knew quite well — the mother of my … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800s, basil, brown sugar, Girl Scouts, Monticello, Richmond, Thomas Jefferson, tomatoes, U.S. Presidents, Virginia
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A ‘Cheap and Quick’ (and Comforting) Pudding from 1862
In any era, wartime cooking brings out the spirit of making do with whatever can be scrounged up when most supplies go to the war effort. The Confederate Receipt Book, published in Richmond in 1862 as the Civil War entered … Continue reading