Description
This collection is labeled "Housekeeping Receipts M.J.T. Burke, 18[5?]7." The author is presumed to be Martha Jefferson Trist Burke (1826-1915), a daughter of Virginia Jefferson Trist and a great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. The book contains approximately fifty recipes for food, home remedies, and household items such as glue and ink. Some are handwritten, and others are clipped from printed sources and pasted in.
See also in this database
Virginia Jefferson Trist Cookbook, which was compiled by Martha Jefferson Trist Burke's mother, and
Septimia Randolph Meikleham Recipe Book, which was kept by Martha Trist Burke's aunt.
Although on deposit at the University of Virginia, this book is owned by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. To access it, written permission must be obtained from the foundation's curatorial department.
