| Description |
xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 253-256. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Catherine Moffatt Whipple of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Moftatt-Ladd House -- Receipts -- Dinner for patriots -- Receipts -- Abigail Adams of Quincy, Massachusetts. The Adams birthplaces -- Receipts -- Fourth of July Reception at the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia -- A most sinful feast -- Polly Wanton Lyman of Newport, Rhode Island. The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House -- Receipts -- Menu for a French officers' ball -- Receipts -- Lydia Watrous Buckingham of Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The Buckingham House -- Receipts -- A three-day wedding feast -- Receipts -- Samuel Fraunces of Fraunces Tavern, New York City. Receipts -- British Evacuation Day reception for George Washington and French Ambassador Luzerne -- Fanny Pierson Crane of Montclair, New Jersey. The Israel Crane House. Receipts -- Supper served in the warming kitchen -- An evening collation -- Magdelena Hoch Keim of Lobachsville, Pennsylvania. The Keim Homestead -- Receipts -- Freundschaft gather to dress the loom -- Mary Cowgill Corbit of Odessa, Delaware. The Corbit-Sharp House -- Receipts -- Family dinner at three o'clock -- Receipts -- Margaret Tilghman Carroll of Baltimore, Maryland -- Mount Clare -- Receipts -- New Year's Day collation at Mount Clare -- Dinner for Governor Eden before his departure for England -- Betty Washington Lewis of Fredericksburg, Virginia -- Kenmore -- Receipts -- Christmas morning at Kenmore -- Receipts -- Henrietta Miksch (of the Miksch Tobacco Shop) of Salem, North Carolina -- The Moravian love feasts -- Receipts -- A picnic in Salem following the harvesting of tobacco -- Receipts -- A Moravian Christmas gathering -- Elizabeth Matthews Heyward of Charleston, South Carolina -- The Heyward-Washington house -- Menu for a late-night supper after the ball -- Receipts -- Sarah Gibbons Telfair of Savannah, Georgia -- The Telfair Mansion -- Receipts -- A Georgia fete -- Plantation dinner and ball -- Receipts -- Bibliography. |
| Subject |
Cooking, American -- History -- 18th century.
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Menus.
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| Added Author |
Donovan, Mary, 1937-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Thirteen Colonies cookbook. New York : Praeger Publishers, 1975 (OCoLC)689454607 |
| ISBN |
0275223000 |
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9780275223007 |
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