Martha Washington's Booke of cookery and booke of sweetmeats : being a family manuscript, curiously copied by an unknown hand sometime in the seventeenth century, which was in her keeping from 1749, the time of her marriage to Daniel Custis, to 1799, at which time she gave it to Eleanor Parke Custis, her granddaughter, on the occasion of her marriage to Lawrence Lewis / transcribed by Karen Hess with historical notes and copious annotations.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hess, Karen.

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Cooking--Virginia--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Washington, Martha, 1731-1802.

Washington, Martha.

Virginia.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Physical Description:

ix, 518 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Booke of cookery

Booke of sweetmeats

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1995.

Summary:

Martha Washington's Recipes, Over Five Hundred Classics dating from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, are gathered in this family cookbook that captures the essence of early American folk culture. Handed down as a manuscript cookbook for generations, Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery has been annotated by Karen Hess, a noted culinary historian and cook. For the historian, she documents early American cookery with prose and photographs of Washington's original manuscript and an appendix detailing extensive primary-source research. For the cook, she explains terms and techniques unfamiliar to the modern kitchen, showing how to make old-fashioned recipes the traditional way.

Notes:

Transcription of A booke of cookery and A booke of sweetmeats, a ms. owned by Martha Washington.

Originally published: 1981.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-489) and index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

ISBN:

0231049315

OCLC:

34825443

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page