[Sca-cooks] Lucayos cookbook

[Johnna Holloway]

In as much as the manuscripts that have come
to be known as Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery
were passed along to Martha through her first husband's
family, I don't believe that Martha's aunt recopied the book.
And a quick reading of this section in the book reveals this
to be true.
See the chapters in the back for the dating of the manuscript
and clues about its authorship. Hess also talks about handwriting
analysis and what actually can be done with manuscripts in hand.
There are a number of books on the subject also.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Carole Smith wrote:

>A thought about figuring out which recipes might have been added later.  
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>  Karen Hess's remarks about Martha Custis Washington's cookbook (this is from memory, mind you) were that the recipes had been copied over by an unknown person, probably Martha's aunt, as the handwriting style was of the right time period.  Certainly some of Martha's recipes looked very familiar to me when I first looked through the book.  Some were very different, using food names ingredients that Richard II didn't, as an example.
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>  I don't know where one would go to look at handwriting styles from different periods of history, though.
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>  Cordelia Tose
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