PUBLIC "-//Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society//TEXT (US::vicahi::vicahi00062::A Guide to the Recipe Book of Mrs. Peter C. Minor [Lucy Smith Carter Minor], 1846-1875)//EN" "vicahi00062.xml" A Guide to the Recipe Book of Mrs. Peter C. Minor [Lucy Smith Carter Minor], 1846-1875 MS 699 Miranda Burnett © 2023 By Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Machine-readable finding aid derived from being created directly into EAD, created by Miranda Burnett, 1 November 2023 Description is in English A Guide to the Recipe Book of Mrs. Peter C. Minor [Lucy Smith Carter Minor], 1846-1875 A Collection in the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society MS 699

Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. All rights reserved. 2023 Miranda Burnett Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Descriptive Summary Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society Recipe Book of Mrs. Peter C. Minor [Lucy Smith Carter Minor], 1846-1875 MS 699 Archive Room File 1 item. English Minor, Lucy Smith Carter Administrative Information Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

Recipe Book of Mrs. Peter C. Minor [Lucy Smith Carter Minor], MS 699, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Biographical Information

Lucy Smith Carter (1819-1912) was born in Albemarle County to Dr. Charles Warner Lewis Carter and Mary Chastain Carter. She married Peter Carr Minor in 1840. They lived in Albemarle County until after the Civil War, when they moved to Richmond. Peter Minor died in 1879. Lucy moved to Washington, D.C. and lived in the Louise Home, a home established "for the comfortable maintenance and support of genteel yet impoverished ladies reduced by misfortune of the war." Lucy died at the home in 1912.

Scope and Content

This is a manuscript cookbook compiled by Lucy Smith Carter Minor. Some of the recipes are attributed, such as "brandy peaches" attributed to Green Mountain; "sponge cake" from "my sister"; "ginger cakes" by Mrs. John Coles; and "bread pudding" from Enniscorthy. The book has a range of recipes, though there seems to be an emphasis on cake and pudding recipes.

Index Terms Family Names: Minor family Subjects: Cooking, American--Virginia--Albemarle County Cookbooks