The Robert E Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book or Irish Puddings Tarts Crumbles and Fools

The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book

Author: Anne Carter Zimmer

Part cookbook, part culinary history, part family history, this charming volume offers an intimate glimpse into life in the household of Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee. Filled with family stories and photographs, it features 70 recipes for breads, cakes, puddings, sweets, soups, main dishes, vegetables, drinks, and home remedies. Each historic recipe is accompanied by notes on ingredients and techniques and by tips for adapting the recipe in the modern kitchen.

Greensboro News & Record

Southerners 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 Quarterly

Anne 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 Society

For the cook, the historian, the Robert E. Lee enthusiast, and the dilettante reader, this is a truly useful and charming volume.

Taste Full

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.

Jean Anderson

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.

Greensboro News and Record

Southerners 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 Quarterly

Anne 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 Society

For the cook, the historian, the Robert E. Lee enthusiast, and the dilettante reader, this is a truly useful and charming volume.

Taste Full

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.

What People Are Saying

Jean Anderson
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.

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Irish Puddings, Tarts, Crumbles, and Fools: 80 Glorious Desserts

Author: Margaret M Johnson

Everybody loves a fool -- especially made fluffy with ripe strawberries or tangy apple. From the author of The New Irish Table comes this celebration of the Emerald Isle's classic desserts. From lemony puddings and marmalade-slathered scones to fruit-filled tarts and berry-laden crumbles, these contemporary renditions of the traditional desserts of Ireland make perfect use of common staples such as oatmeal, fruit, dairy products, and, of course, whiskey. Steel-Cut Oat Pudding is enhanced with orange zest, nutmeg, and plump golden raisins. A chocolate, walnut, and caramel tart becomes a treat for grownups with a splash of the hard stuff. A final chapter offers the most memorable of holiday delectables including mincemeat tarts, Christmas pudding, and a really good fruitcake. A glossary and source list define and locate unusual ingredients. With gorgeous painterly photographs depicting the food and countryside, this wonderful cookbook serves as a sweet reminder of the people and cuisine of Ireland.