Nelly Custis Lewis's Housekeeping Book

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Historic New Orleans Collections
Published: 08/19/2019
ISBN: 9780917860096
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.32w x 0.66d