MirandaвЂ™s work with us includes blogging about historic food traditions of the Old Line State while she attends school at Vassar College in New York. Our Historical Recipe posts were prepared and written by Miranda Villesvik, one of Preservation MarylandвЂ™s Waxter Interns. Sprinkle powdered sugar or drizzle honey onto cookies for extra sweetness.Put onto baking pan and place in oven for 10-15 minutes at 400F.Roll out dough and twist into pretzel shapes or simple twists.Mix together flour, butter, sugar, eggs, and nutmeg in bowl until well-mixed.Furthermore, since the modern chef most likely does not cook by the pound ( unlike a mother cooking for thirteen children), we modified the measurements to make a smaller number of these delicious cookies: INGREDIENTS We followed a similar recipe, and recommend adding some honey and powdered sugar on top of the jumbles.

Roll out long with hands and join in rings (very good). There, Prudence wrote a recipe for jumbles as: One pound flour, 1/2 pound butter, Вѕ Pound brown sugar, 2 eggs, ВЅ Nutmeg (grated), 2 tablespoonfuls rose water. This particular recipe for jumbles comes from Waverly House, near Woodstock in Howard County, where Governor George Howard and his wife, Prudence Dorsey, and thirteen children lived after his tenure as Governor ended in 1833. Jumbles have been a part of American history from the very beginning since they are believed to have come over from England on the Mayflower, even and Martha Washington is storied to have had her own favorite recipe for them. One of the earliest sweet cookie recipes to arrive in Maryland may have come over on the Mayflower from England before it was perfected at the Wavery Mansion we present Waverly jumbles: ItвЂ™s also about preserving our intangible heritage вЂ“ the music, dress, oral traditions, crafts, festivals, and cuisines that define our stateвЂ™s culture. Historic preservation isnвЂ™t only about preserving historic buildings, structures, and sites. The First Cookie: Jumbles Perfected at Waverly Mansion in Howard County 'The local utility company giving a cooking demonstration for Greenbelt women,' 1942.

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