[Sca-cooks] Martha Washington's Cookbook was Lucayos cookbook

[Terry Decker]

IIRC, the earliest dateable recipe in the collection is an exact copy of a 
recipe published in the reign of Mary I.

Bear


A thought about figuring out which recipes might have been added later.

  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.

  I don't know where one would go to look at handwriting styles from 
different periods of history, though.

  Cordelia Tose