[Sca-cooks] cherry wine/cider

[Decker, Terry D.]

It is a manuscript cookbook of the Custis family.  Martha Dandridge married
into the Custis family and was given the cookbook.  The widowed Martha
Dandridge Custis later married George Washington, hence the Martha
Washington title.

IIRC, the earliest datable recipe in the collection is from around 1540 and
is identifiable because it is a copy from another source.

Bear

> This may be enough to being me before HUAC, but
> what exactly is Martha Washington's booke of
> Cookerie? I always assumed it was some kind of
> manuscript published by patriotic homemakers. Now
> it contains 200-year-old recipe collections?
>
> puzzled
>
> Giano