A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770

"A charming compilation of eighteenth-century recipes . . . a well-researched account of Mrs. Horry's fascinating life-style." -The North Carolina Historical Review

Harriott Pinckney Horry began her receipt book more than two hundred years ago. It is being published now for the first time.

You will get a lively sense of what colonial plantation life was like from reading Harriott's receipt book. She began it in 1770, shortly after she was married, writing recipes and household information ...