Heart to Hearth Cookery

Mush Cakes for George

  This is my 300th blog post!  Since I have one extra day in February this year, I do not want to let the month pass without remembering George.  Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis Lewis, granddaughter of Martha Washington wrote in a letter that George Washington rose before sunrise, always wrote or read until 7 in the summer or half past seven in winter. His breakfast was then ready-he ate three small mush cakes.  The three small mush cakes have just been poured in the spider in the picture.