Place of Origin

United States ➔ Washington, D. C.

Date of Composition

1860

Description

Signed by Maria T. Allison, of Navy Yard, Washington, in December, 1860, this book comprises approximately 120 family recipes of some sophistication. The recipes include General Grant Pie, Pilot bread, Egyptian punch, Federal cake, Sunderlands, Laplanders, Virginia loaves, Maryland pickle for hams, pickled "marlynia," Indian soup, and chowder using Pilot bread or ship's biscuit. The book bears Middle Atlantic influences.