An antebellum plantation household : including the South Carolina low country receipts and remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler / Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Sinkler, Emily Wharton 1823-1875 Manuscripts Search this
Physical description:
xix, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Sources
History
Manuscripts
Place:
South Carolina
Santee River Region
Santee River Region (S.C.)
Date:
2015
19th century
Notes:
"With eighty-two newly discovered receipts."
"Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2006"--Title page verso.
Summary:
"At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Low Country. In monthly letters to her northern family she recorded keen observations about her adopted home, and in a receipt book she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes reflecting her ties to both North and South ... the receipts offer valuable insight int the melding of diverse cultural and ethnic influences (French Huguenot, African, Low conuty, Virginian, and Pennsylvanian) and reveal Sinkler's reliance on locally grown ingredients, success in devising substitutions for items that had been readily available in Philadelphia, and skill in treating a myriad of ailments"--Back cover.
Topic:
Plantation owners' spouses--Manuscripts Search this
