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

[Ron Carnegie]

  This would certainly be the more accurate understanding of this book.  It
is called "Martha Washington's book of cookery" because that will sell more
copies than  "Frances Parke Custis' book of Cookery".  I don't believe it is
clear who actually first started collecting the receipts in the book, but it
was NOT Martha.  Two book find themselves in this odd situation.  The one we
are discussing and "George Washington's Rules of Civility".  Neither of
these were authored by the people to whom they are attributed.

Ranald de Balinhard, who is in the mundane world a Washington Scholar


"I'm your huckleberry"

Ron Carnegie
r.carnegie at verizon.net 
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Behalf Of Johnna Holloway
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 7:38 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery

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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