Hannah Glasse, The art of cookery, made plain and easy: which far exceeds anything of the kind ever yet published

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First published in England in 1747, Hannah Glasse’s The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy was probably the best-known and most widely used cookbook in both England and the American colonies in the eighteenth century. The book went through a number of editions. Martha Washington’s copy dates from the early 1770s, and was part of a list of English goods requested by George Washington (image courtesy of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association).

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