What is that to you? I was talking about Labor Day weekends at my grandparents house and mentioned Maryland crab soup and how my grandmother sometimes used to stick a hunk of beef, chicken or ham in it along with leftover steamed crabs. My boyfriend looked at me like I was nuts and couldn't imagine how that would taste with the creaminess of crab soup. So I asked him what he thought Maryland crab soup was and he said crab meat, heavy cream, sherry, etc etc. He's lived in Maryland since he was eight and he's considerably older than that now (as am I).
I grew up all over but; Baltimore was always home plate. Maryland crab soup was a beef broth base with lots of fresh tomatoes, string beans, carrots, occasionally lima beans, onions, potatoes, lots of steam crabs and the occasional beef, chicken, or ham. It cooked in the big crab pot for hours and smelled exactly like old bay. The soup was good, the leftovers especially; spectacular. Dessert was always something peachy - cobbler, some kind of peach cake, or peach pie, served on forest green depression glass.
So am I wrong - is official Maryland crab soup, cream of or tomato based?
I grew up all over but; Baltimore was always home plate. Maryland crab soup was a beef broth base with lots of fresh tomatoes, string beans, carrots, occasionally lima beans, onions, potatoes, lots of steam crabs and the occasional beef, chicken, or ham. It cooked in the big crab pot for hours and smelled exactly like old bay. The soup was good, the leftovers especially; spectacular. Dessert was always something peachy - cobbler, some kind of peach cake, or peach pie, served on forest green depression glass.
So am I wrong - is official Maryland crab soup, cream of or tomato based?
