Homemade rhubarb pie! It won’t win any beauty contests, but it’s my breakfast and I’m proud of it. I grew up with rhubarb. It flourished on the edge of the family truck patch on the old farm in York County. The story goes – as I remember it from my uncle Bernard – that his [...]
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Raspberry Liqueur
The raspberries were growing wild in the park at the end of the block, and on a sweltering weekend in July, we reached into the briers and filled our baskets until they overflowed. We made jam. We put them into our oatmeal. We froze some for later. And we made raspberry liqueur. Using a recipe [...]