Martha Washington's Booke of cookery
Subtitle: and Booke of sweetmeats
By: transcribed by Karen Hess with historical notes and copious annotations.
Contributors: Hess, Karen.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Washington, Martha, 1731-1802; Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Cookery -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Desserts -- England -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Booke of cookery ; and Booke of sweetmeats; Booke of sweetmeats.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-489) and index.
Subtitle: 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.