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Benedictine Spread: Louisville’s Best-Kept Secret

downtonabbeycooks · April 19, 2023 ·

A Louisville caterer invented this cucumber cream cheese spread in the 1890s. It has been a Derby staple ever since. Outside Kentucky, almost nobody knows it exists. Benedictine spread is one of those recipes that belongs so completely to one place that it never quite travelled. … [Read more...] about Benedictine Spread: Louisville’s Best-Kept Secret

Filed Under: Appetizer, Kentucky Derby Tagged With: Benedictine Spread, cucumber cream cheese spread, Derby party food, Edwardian recipes, Gilded Age entertaining, historical recipes, Jennie Benedict, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby recipes, Louisville food history

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