An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler Contributor(s): LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611175429 ISBN-13: 9781611175424 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $22.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Social History |
Dewey: 975.78 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 181 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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Publisher Description: 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 Lowcountry. 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. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, these documents provide a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South. The receipts offer valuable insight into the melding of diverse cultural and ethnic influences--French Huguenot, African, Lowcountry, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley: - Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq (1942-2014), a native of Charleston, was a great-great-great-granddaughter of Emily Wharton Sinkler. LeClercq was also the author of A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States and the editor of Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865 and Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910. |