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Inscribed “Account for 1864” on the second page, this book contains approximately 20 pages of culinary recipes in the hand Anne Fitzhugh Ledyard (1832-1919). The recipes focus on puddings, dessert creams, cakes, cookies, and tea and breakfast breads such as Sally Lunn and waffles.

Now operated as Lorenzo State Historic Site, the estate known as Lorenzo was built by John Lincklaen and his wife, Helen Ledyard Lincklaen, in 1807. When Helen Lincklaen died, in 1847, Lorenzo was inherited by her nephew, Lincklaen Ledyard (1820-1864), who legally reversed his name to Ledyard Lincklaen. Anne Fitzhugh Ledyard was the wife of Ledyard Lincklaen’s brother, George Strawbridge Ledyard, Sr. (1825-1890). The couple had three children, including Jane S. Ledyard Remington (1863-1953), who coauthored a cookbook with her mother.