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 <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Janette Blackwell<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">\tRaw vegetables are dangerous and must be thoroughly fried, steamed, and boiled into submission.  So thought our ancestors.  The original sin of a recalcitrant vegetable was of course lessened by heat, but the conscientious nineteenth-century cook continued to boil it long after it had sogged into a jelly-like mass, just in case some evil remained.  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tIn the nineteenth century an hour\u0092s cooking barely sufficed for cabbage and for corn on the cob.  They did not fix broccoli at all, and I can understand why.  I have tried to imagine broccoli after an hour of cooking, but the mind rares back and refuses even to approach the sheer horror.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tWhich reminds me of an event in the summer of 1956, when my classmate Patsy Sutherland and I lived with Grandpa Hess while we went to business college in Missoula, Montana.  Grandpa was a crusty old widower, set in his own way of housekeeping, but he tried to be gracious.  In midsummer he bought a whole crate of tomatoes.  Luscious, red, ripe tomatoes.  They sat in the cellarway for two days, and each time Patsy and I passed them our mouths watered.  Each evening we thought he\u0092d invite us to have a tomato or two, but he didn\u0092t.  When we arrived home on the third evening, he said, \u0093Girls!  I fixed the tomatoes today.  Help yourselves!\u0094  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tHe had stewed every last one of them. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tSome of those old tomato recipes are good, though.  The originator of Tomatoes Maryland probably had an old-fashioned wood stove that could gently simmer something all afternoon on a back burner or in the oven.  Which means this was most likely a fall or winter dish rather than a summer one, as people let the cookstove fire go out on summer afternoons.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>TOMATOES MARYLAND&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tBreak into bits 2 slices of stale bread.  Add to 4 cups canned or fresh tomatoes, peeled and quartered, with half an onion, chopped, and about 2\/3 cup brown sugar.  Salt lightly.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tBring the mixture to a boil and simmer gently for 3 hours, stirring occasionally.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tMy notes say, \u0093It does need three hours to cook, even with the pan lid off most of the time.  Perhaps some of the thin tomato juices could be poured off at the beginning, shortening the cooking time.\u0094  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tTomatoes Maryland is the kind of sweet side dish American cooks like to serve with chicken or pork.  I was going to say, \u0093cooks from regions other than the Northeast.\u0094  Then I remembered applesauce with pork, cranberry sauce with turkey, mint jelly with lamb, and baked beans with salt pork.  Not to mention pancakes and syrup with sausages cuddled up close.  And mincemeat pie, that ultimate mixture of meat and sweet.  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