[Sca-cooks] Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery

[Terry Decker]

> There is a Martha Washington cookbook mentioned on www.foodtimeline.org. 
> Is this the same "cookbook?"
>

Yes.  Martha Washington's cookbook is a  manuscript cookbook once owned by 
the first First Lady of the United States.  If you look at the Food Timeline 
Bibliography, they list the Hess version, which is the preferred edition of 
culinary historians and historical cooks.  The earliest datable recipe in 
the collection is from the mid 16th Century and the entire collection covers 
about 200 years of culinary history.  IIRC, the cookbook was a prized 
possession of the Custis family and Martha Dandridge received her copy from 
her mother-in-law when she married Daniel Custis.

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