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The Robert E. Lee family cooking & housekeeping book / Anne Carter Zimmer.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 715 .Z6 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimmer, Anne Carter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870--Family.
- Lee, Robert E.
- Cooking, American.
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
- Summary:
- Zimmer shares the recipes, home remedies, shopping lists, and other domestic jottings from a notebook belonging to her great-grandmother, Mary Randolph Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee. Zimmer also provides tips for adapting the recipe for the modern kitchen, and includes family stories and photographs.
- Contents:
- Mrs. Lee and Her Family
- The Notebook
- Recreating the Lee Table after the War
- The Receipts
- Home Remedies and Housekeeping.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zimmer, Anne Carter. Robert E. Lee family cooking & housekeeping book.
- ISBN:
- 0807823694
- 9780807823699
- 0807854158
- 9780807854150
- OCLC:
- 36767571
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