Artist Eunice Gearhart and her husband enjoy the enjoys traditional culinary traditions of the East Coast, as influenced by her French and Irish heritage and his Pennsylvania Dutch background.
"Raised on food that is both warm and memorable, food for me conjures up memories of comfort and family and plays an important part in our celebrations," she writes. "My family always celebrated with warm Apple Slump, a recipe that goes back to the early 1800s in New England. We used whatever was available in those days, usually apples, to make a kind of cake, pudding treat. This biscuit - brownie - pudding, dumpling kind of cake would 'slump' when it was baked, which is where the name originated. Slump or no slump you could not tell because it was covered with generous sprinklings of sugar and served with warmed cream or brandy sauce. With each bite, I could not wait to reach the warm brownie pudding in the center.
My favorite holiday memory was the Thanksgiving my grandmother and grandfather came to our house for turkey dinner. My grandfather did not drive a car except on rare occassions. This was the one rare holiday he did, so we got out our best dishes, polished the silver, put a lace table cloth on the table and ate turkey dinner in the dining room which was never used to eat in and had Apple Slump for dessert.
My husband's Pennsylvania Dutch heritage has us eating sauerkraut and sausages every New Year's dinner, because it is traditional and thought to bring good luck."
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