Martha Washington's recipes: More than five hundred classics dating from the 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. "Amerian cookery is a tapestry of extraordinary complex design, reflecting out rich and varied ethnic origins, our New World produce, and our frontier history," writes Hess in her introduction. 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, such as rose petal vinegar, Oxford Kate's sausages, roast capon with oysters, mince pie, fried pudding, almond butter ginger bread, and apple cider. In paperback for the first time, Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery is both a significant primary resource for historians and the perfect gift for enthusiastic cooks and fans of the culinary arts.

Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats

Biographies & Memoirs

Washington, Martha

Historical

Columbia University Press

"The Papers of Martha Washington is the first scholarly edition of Martha Washington's correspondence, spanning her entire life, from her youth as a wealthy but largely unknown Virginian plantation mistress through her ascent to becoming an American icon. Her family letters (including the four letters and brief postcript that comprise her surviving correspondence with George Washington) make up most of the volume, bringing to light Martha Washington's personality in her own words. As she rose to fame, she began to correspond with such significant figures in American history as Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Willing Powel, and the Marquis de Lafayette, and this correspondence paints a picture of the social life during the Revolutionary War and the Early Republic. For periods where few documents survive, the editors have selected financial papers and third-party documents that fill in some of the blanks. The volume, which includes biographical directories, timelines, maps, editorial essays, a calendar of financial documents, and appendices in order to flesh out Martha Washington's world and her intricate family connections, will serve both as a valuable historical tool and a readable introduction to the life of America's first "First Lady.""--]cProvided by publisher.

The Papers of Martha Washington

History

Americas

University of Virginia Press

Washington, George, Washington, Martha

The Last Will and Testament of George Washington and Schedule of His Property: To Which Is Appended the Last Will and Testament of Martha Washington

WASHINGTON, George

Reference

Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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