Overview
For more than thirty years George Washington's adopted daughter Nelly Custis Lewis was the mistress of Woodlawn, a large and elegant Virginia plantation. This book reconstructs 176 of Lewis's recipes and provides a wealth of information on nineteenth-century techniques for housekeeping, cooking, and medical practice.
- | Author: Patricia Brady Schmit
- | Publisher: Historic New Orleans Collection
- | Publication Date: Aug 19, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 142 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0917860098
- | ISBN-13: 9780917860096
