[Sca-cooks] Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Sat Apr 10 04:38:10 PDT 2010
It's far better to think of Martha Washington as a woman of her
time who was given a bound culinary manuscript upon her first marriage
in 1749
and who in time passed that manuscript along to her granddaughter
Nellie Custis
in 1799.
Johnna
On Apr 9, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Susan Fox wrote:
>
> I think that Martha Washington was a Creative Anachronist,
> collecting historical recipes like we do. Just because she lived a
> couple centuries Ante Societatis, she was still an Anachronist!
>
> Cheers, Selene
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