The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book
Part cookbook, part culinary history, part family history, this book is an engaging and enlightening glimpse into the household of a well-to-do, mid-nineteenth-century Virginia family. Seeking to learn more about her ancestors' daily lives, Anne Zimmer, great-granddaughter of Robert E. and Mary Lee, turned to her great-grandmother's small, now shabby notebook. Packed with recipes, shopping lists, and other domestic jottings, the notebook opened an intimate window onto an earlier way of...
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Based on Mrs. Lee's personal notebook and presented by her great-granddaughter, this charming book is a treasury of recipes, remedies, and household history. Both the original and modern versions of 70 recipes are included. Southern Quarterly Anne Carter Zimmer has blended the ingredients of recipe experimentation, family traditions, and regional heritage into a confection with a message.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Mrs. Lee and Her Family11The Notebook63Recreating the Lee Table after the War89The Receipts107Home Remedies and Housekeeping237Custis-Lee Genealogy252Lee Household Chronology255Selected Bibliography257General Index267Index of Receipts281
\ From the PublisherSoutherners true to their heritage—the abiding value of family and food—will find pleasure in The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book. The foods and recipe portions of the book [are] a nostalgic delight. (Greensboro News and Record)\ "Anne Carter Zimmer has blended the ingredients of recipe experimentation, family traditions, and regional heritage into a confection with a message. (Southern Quarterly)"\ "For the cook, the historian, the Robert E. Lee enthusiast, and the dilettante reader, this is a truly useful and charming volume. (Register of the Kentucky Historical Society)"\ "I love this book! The great-granddaughter of Robert E. Lee, Anne Carter Zimmer has taken a faded little notebook full of Lee family chat and recipes, added months of research, and dished up an insider's glimpse of the great Confederate general 'at home.' She also gives us an illuminating portrait of the Lee family before and after the Civil War. (Jean Anderson)"\ "Delving deeper than the usual 'who married whom' and 'whose daddy did what,' Zimmer explores how the Lees lived their daily lives, focusing on the foods they ate and how they ran their homes. Even more interesting, Zimmer provides some light gossip and shares a few intimate details of the Lees' domestic lives, which gives the reader refreshing insight into their human frailties. (Taste Full)"\ \ \ \ \ \ Greensboro News & RecordSoutherners true to their heritage—the abiding value of family and food—will find pleasure in The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book. The foods and recipe portions of the book [are] a nostalgic delight.\ \ \ Southern QuarterlyAnne Carter Zimmer has blended the ingredients of recipe experimentation, family traditions, and regional heritage into a confection with a message.\ \ \ \ \ Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyFor the cook, the historian, the Robert E. Lee enthusiast, and the dilettante reader, this is a truly useful and charming volume.\ \ \ \ \ Taste FullDelving deeper than the usual 'who married whom' and 'whose daddy did what,' Zimmer explores how the Lees lived their daily lives, focusing on the foods they ate and how they ran their homes. Even more interesting, Zimmer provides some light gossip and shares a few intimate details of the Lees' domestic lives, which gives the reader refreshing insight into their human frailties.\ \ \ \ \ Greensboro News and RecordSoutherners true to their heritage—the abiding value of family and food—will find pleasure in The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book. The foods and recipe portions of the book [are] a nostalgic delight.\ \ \ \ \ Southern QuarterlyAnne Carter Zimmer has blended the ingredients of recipe experimentation, family traditions, and regional heritage into a confection with a message.\ \ \ \ \ Register of the Kentucky Historical SocietyFor the cook, the historian, the Robert E. Lee enthusiast, and the dilettante reader, this is a truly useful and charming volume.\ \ \ \ \ Jean AndersonI love this book! The great-granddaughter of Robert E. Lee, Anne Carter Zimmer has taken a faded little notebook full of Lee family chat and recipes, added months of research, and dished up an insider's glimpse of the great Confederate general 'at home.' She also gives us an illuminating portrait of the Lee family before and after the Civil War.\ \ \ \ \ Taste FullDelving deeper than the usual 'who married whom' and 'whose daddy did what, ' Zimmer explores how the Lees lived their daily lives, focusing on the foods they ate and how they ran their homes. Even more interesting, Zimmer provides some light gossip and shares a few intimate details of the Lees' domestic lives, which gives the reader refreshing insight into their human frailties.\ \
