1773 Apple Pie 🥧 Earliest Recipe - 18th Century Cooking

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3. A mentioned 1824 cookbook...

...The Virginia House-wife was written by Mary Randolph.

Mary Randolph was the oldest of Thomas and Anne's 13 children. Her brother Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. married Martha Jefferson (daughter of Thomas Jefferson) and became a Congressman and Governor of Virginia.

Randolph spent the last years of her life caring for her son Burwell Starke Randolph, who had been disabled while serving in the Navy. Randolph was the first person known to be buried at what would become Arlington National Cemetery, at the home of her cousin George Washington Parke Custis, stepgrandson of George Washington and father of Mary Custis, wife of Robert E. Lee.

George Washington Parke Custis built Arlington House which is now part of Arlington National Cemetery.