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Diack cake that will last a year.” When unexpected guests arrived there was no time to whip up something quick from a mix.
Plantation Parties
Travel was not a speedy process during colonial times, either. And so guests came prepared to stay seve"f&TdayS at the long southern house parties.
Washington enjoyed hosting house parties or barbecues at Mount Vernon. He was known as an emotional man, dropping all formality of the presidency when in the midst of friends. He especially enjoyed playing cards and dancing. Friend Jefferson was happy and able to assist in the entertainments by keeping his violin and harpsichord well rehearsed in the minutes of the period.
In fact, George Washington really was “first in the hearts of his country men,” but the large, convivial man Madison and Monroe saw over'a glass of Madeira was as far from the unfinished Gilbert Stuart portrait in Boston as rose-water cake is from cherry pie.
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