It may not seem like it now, but Baltimore was once a booming peach town. An article in The Sun from July 20, 1886 estimated that 2.581 million baskets of the fruit, grown on Maryland’s Easte… ...

It’s peach cake time again in Baltimore, and let the debate begin. This is a peculiar season, when locals scramble in search of the perfect summertime confection made of raised dough and peaches.

Arrange peach slices however you’d like on top of the dough, gently pressing them in. Bake in preheated oven 20 to 30 minutes, until dough is golden-brown on the edges. While still warm, brush ...

Makes 8-10 servings. 1 3/4 cups unsifted all-purpose flour. 1/4 cup sugar. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast. 2 tablespoons softened butter or margarine ...

BALTIMORE – The recent ... Taylor Avenue and Loch Raven Boulevard, came at a time of year when he would have been eliciting smiles with his peach cakes.As longtime Baltimoreans know, ...

Baltimore Peach Cake. 1 cup sugar 2.5 cups flour 3 tsp. Baking Powder 1 tbsp. Butter 1.5 cups milk ¾ cup sugar 2 tsp. Cinnamon 4 cups peaches 2 tbsp. Butter. Advertisement Related Content ...

George Adam Simon, an old-fashioned Baltimore baker who offered generations of his signature peach cakes and wafer-thin sugar cookies, died of heart failure Tuesday at Gilchrist Towson Center. He ...

For comparison’s sake, census data shows that in 2012, Georgia had more than 12,000 acres of peach orchards, Maryland had just shy of 1,000, and Wisconsin showed 31 acres (second to last only to ...

BALTIMORE — The recent death of beloved baker George Simon, who had shops in Cockeysville and previously Taylor Avenue and Loch Raven Boulevard, came at a time of year when ...