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

[Johnna Holloway]

It's an earlier version. Non annotated.
Amazon notes for the 2004 paperback that in 1892  the Lewis family  
presented the original manuscript to The Historical Society of  
Pennsylvania where it still resides today.
"In 1940, the Society gave special permission to historian Marie  
Kimball to study the manuscript and prepare a cookbook entitled, "The  
Martha Washington Cook Book." Mrs. Kimball fully adapted Martha’s  
cookbook to practical, modern use. All the recipes were proportioned  
to our current practice of a formula for serving six people. Each  
recipe was tested. It is not only correct, but tastes great!

The Martha Washington Cook Book by Marie Kimball was published in  
1940. It has now, of course, long been out-of-print until this  
historic 2004 limited edition reprint."

So skip this Kimball edition and just buy the Hess edited version  
published by Columbia University Press.

Johnnae

On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Sandra Kisner wrote:

> We have mentioned "Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery" (edited by  
> Karen Hess) in the past.  I have recently seen a book with a similar  
> title, but the name attached is Marie Kimball.  Is anybody familiar  
> with this version?
>
> Sandra