Martha Washington's Recipes, Over Five Hundred Classics dating from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, are gathered in this family cookbook that captures the essence of early American folk culture.<BR>Handed down as a manuscript cookbook for generations, Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery has been annotated by Karen Hess, a noted culinary historian and cook. For the historian, she documents early American cookery with prose and photographs of Washington's original manuscript and an appendix detailing extensive primary-source research. For the cook, she explains terms and techniques unfamiliar to the modern kitchen, showing how to make old-fashioned recipes the traditional way.