SC - Ice Cream and Martha Washington

[Cindy Renfrow]

>>
>>Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 12:26:22 -0400
>>From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
>>Subject: SC - Ice Cream and Martha Washington
>><much snippage, mostly of Aoife's own verbage>>
>>Could be wrong, but it was my understanding that the Martha Washington
>>who owned/added to the MW Boke of Cookerye _was_ the 1st American
>>President's wife.
>
>Really, now I'll have to go back and re-read the d****d intro. I'm fairly
>sure it was substantiated that it was an entirely different woman, but I
>haven't had any char this AM, and am also on a DIET (boooo, hissssss), so
>chances are that I won't be checking it any time soon, due to mood swings,
>caffein deprivation, and unruly children.
>
>Who's our resident MW expert? I forget. Can someone please pipe up and
>actually look at the thing? I've got three nasty urchins (young ladies, no
>less)trying to kill each other in the other room..........no time to go
>digging out books. If I were a really dedicated parent, I suppose I'd go out
>there and save the antiques.
>
<snip>

Hello!  The citation is:

Hess, Karen, ed.  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 grandaughter, on the occasion of her
Marriage to Lawrence Lewis.  Columbia Univ. Press.  New York, 1981.  The
recipes contained in the MS. are dated 1550 to 1625 by the editor.

FYI, Food Heritage Press has this title (newly released in paperback):
http://www.shore.net/~foodbks


HTH,

Cindy Renfrow
renfrow at skylands.net
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/


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