[Sca-cooks] Martha Washington's Cookbook

[Carole Smith]

That's interesting information.  Not that I have any recipes published during Mary I's reign, unless Robert May fits that calendar.
   
  On the other hand, when I first picked up Hess, some of the recipes seemed very familiar.  I had thought some might be from Richard II, which I do have.  Ah well.
   
  Cordelia

Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
  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.
 
Cordelia Toser


 			
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