Author: Julie Rothman
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RECIPE FINDER: Yellow Squash Casserole
Ronni Biolosky from Cleveland was looking for a recipe for a squash casserole similar to one she had enjoyed recently at a dinner party. She said it was made with yellow squash and probably had egg and cheese in it as well. Holladay Bank from Butler, Md., sent in a recipe for a yellow squash…
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RECIPE FINDER: Mom’s Peach Cake
A few weeks ago The Baltimore Sun ran a story about a taste test its staff conducted on the ever-popular Baltimore Peach Cake. After the article ran, we received numerous requests for the recipe (even though purists on the tasting panel insisted this was a bakery-only treat).In the past in this column we have published…
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RECIPE FINDER: Spanish Bar Cake
Blanche Harrrell from Forest Hill, Md., was looking for a recipe for making a cake that was sold at the old A&P stores when she was growing up. It was called Spanish Bar Cake. She said it was a delicious dark, moist cake with raisins. James Welker from Lykens, Pa., sent in the recipe for…
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RECIPE FINDER: White and Green Bean Salad
Emilia Schwartz from Pasadena, Md., was looking for a recipe for a salad made with cannellini beans and other ingredients that she said she got some years back when she belonged to Weight Watchers. Bonnie Besche from Baltimore sent in a bean salad recipe she found in her “Weight Watchers Simply the Best” cookbook and…
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RECIPE FINDER: Peanut Butter Potato Salad — no, really
Thomas Klein from Pasadena, Md., was looking for a recipe he had a while back, but has misplaced, for peanut butter potato salad. As he recalls, it was made much like regular potato salad but with the addition of peanut butter. Sally Lippincott from New Market, Md., sent in a recipe she had for peanut…
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RECIPE FINDER: Newburg sauce
Richard Pometto from Bowie, Md., is looking for a recipe that would produce a Newburg sauce comparable to Knorr’s packaged variety. He said that he frequently used the packaged sauce as a base for a seafood dish but that it is no longer sold in this country. As I began to research the recipe, I…
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RECIPE: Easy sweet potato soufflé
This recipe is very easy to make, and it tasted delicious, almost like a pie without a crust. I decided to cook the sweet potatoes in the microwave but you also could bake them or even used canned ones. The souffle was light and airy, although somewhat on the sweet side. The topping was crunchy…
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Pineapple Squares spark childhood memory
Rosie Ahern of Willits, Calif., was looking for a recipe for pineapple squares that she remembers from her childhood. Her mother, who baked bread on a weekly basis, came across the recipe on a package of Fleischmann’s yeast.Barbara Davis of Salisbury, Md., sent in the recipe she believes is likely the one Ahern was searching…