Maryland Street Food

5 dishes in United States

5 street foods from Maryland, United States: Maryland Crab Cake, Baltimore Pit Beef Sandwich, Chesapeake Steamed Blue Crabs, Baltimore Snowball and Baltimore Coddies. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Maryland

Crab Shack · Fried Crab Cake Maryland Crab Cake A true Maryland crab cake is bound with almost no filler — just egg, a little mayo and a few crushed crackers — so it's mostly lump Chesapeake blue… Jumbo lump blue crab meat is lightly bound and pan-fried or broiled into a golden cake, served on a bun or plain with a wedge of lemon. Waterfront crab shacks and stands sell them from… Roadside Pit · Charred Beef Sandwich Baltimore Pit Beef Sandwich Unlike Southern barbecue, Baltimore pit beef is cooked hot and fast over direct charcoal flame rather than slow-smoked, giving it a deeply charred… A top round of beef is seared over an open charcoal pit until the outside is nearly black, then shaved paper-thin and piled onto a kaiser roll with raw onion and horseradish sauce… Crab House · Old Bay Steamed Crabs Chesapeake Steamed Blue Crabs Maryland crab houses dump steamed crabs directly onto brown-paper-covered picnic tables, handing diners a wooden mallet and a plastic knife instead… Live blue crabs are steamed in a mix of beer and vinegar with a heavy dusting of Old Bay, then served whole and piping hot for diners to pick apart by hand. Waterfront crab houses along… 🍧 Snowball Stand · Egg Custard Ice Baltimore Snowball Baltimore's signature snowball flavor is egg custard, a pale yellow vanilla-custard syrup that is rarely found outside the city. Finely shaved ice is packed into a cup and doused with sweet syrup, often finished with a spoonful of marshmallow topping pressed into the center. Corner snowball stands pop up on… 🐟 Corner Deli · Fried Fish Cake Baltimore Coddies Coddies were long a staple of Baltimore drugstore lunch counters and delis, and they are hard to find outside a handful of old-school spots in the… A patty of mashed potato and salt cod (or canned fish) is breaded and deep-fried into a flat, crisp cake, then sandwiched between two saltine crackers with a smear of yellow mustard…

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