That I haven't read since I was a kid, but I remember old Daniel wanting to know if there was pie for breakfast.

This pie sounds good.

good memory!

...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.

Mary Randolph and others liked to record recipes and more for the sake of future generations.

I have a few tidbits in my storehouse useless information.

IMO the most enduring things in civilization are the artistic ones and food can certainly be art. As a Christopher Walken
character once said, "A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it."

BTW, I love apple pie.