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This 152-page cookbook is attributed to Mary Randolph Custis Lee (1807-1873), great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It is in a number of different hands and contains accounts, many inserts, and pasted-in recipes. The book includes a material pertaining to “Woman’s Exchange,” a type of charitable shop where women in straitened circumstances could sell home-produced merchandise on consignment.

The recipes include: spice cake, pineapple ice, tea cakes, cookies, soup, yeast, jumbles, chicken terrapin, bouillon, Sally Lunn, muffins, molasses sauce, sponge cake, strong coffee, mushrooms au beurre, soft gingerbread, hard gingerbread, sauce for pudding, currant wine, jelly, gelatine charlotte russe, dressing for salad or tomatoes, gumbo file, waffles, icing, Lapland cakes, rice bread, rice pudding, cup cake, orange cake, orange ice, chocolate cream, apple compote, carmel ice cream, sweet meat pudding, apple float, snow mountain, eggnog,and blackberry wine. There are also instructions for oiling floors and cleaning marble and a cure for rheumatism.

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