Colonial recipes, from old Virginia and Maryland manors

One pint rich cream sweetened and flavored to taste, -| box of gelatine dissolved in the cream, whites of 7 eggs beaten stiff and added after the mixture has begun to congeal. Put in a mold lined with cake and set in a cold place. This recipe was brought to Winston from Charleston, South Carolina. KINGSTON HALL By the waters of the Chesapeake in old Somerset is Kingston Hall, the ancestral home of Governor Thomas King Carroll, the first Governor Carroll of Maryland. It was built early in the sixteenth century by Robert King, the father of Thomas King, who was the father of Elizabeth King who married Col. Henry Carroll of St. Mary's County. Their son, Thomas King Carroll, who became Governor of Maryland in 1829, married Julia Stevenson, the only daughter of Dr. Henry Stevenson, who, with his brother, was graduated at the University of Oxford, England, and came to Baltimore with large wealth. (There were then but ten houses in Baltimore.) He built a palatial residence there called " Parnassus," and gave largely to the upbuilding of the city. His son, Cosmo Stevenson, became an eminent doctor, and several noted men owe their education to him. Governor Thomas King Carroll became a 68 Kingston Hall law partner of Robert Goodloe Harper, but this lasted only for a short time, as the father of Governor Carroll died leaving his large estate, with 150 slaves, in care of his mother. So he had to abandon the practice of law and return to Kingston Hall, where all his children were born. The old manor house at Kingston Hall was very large and handsome, and its beautiful terraced gardens sloped down to the water's edge. Governor Carroll remembered when the water came up to the granaries, and the boats were loaded with grain to be carried to Baltimore. But the waters have now greatly receded. Gov. Thomas King Carroll was a deep thinker and a wise counselor, and his law partner, General Robert Goodloe Harper, ranked as a lawyer with Taney, Wirt, Winder, Pinckney, and other noted lawyers. He was a native of South Carolina, but came to Maryland, from whence he was elected to the United States Senate. In 1802 General Harper married Catherine, the second daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who was one of the most distinguished gentlemen Maryland has ever produced. He was the last surviving signer Kingston Hall 69 of the Declaration of Independence. His remains rest under the altar in the chapel at Doughoregan Manor, where he lived in lordly style. This is considered one of the very finest estates in old Maryland. It is now the home of ex-Governor John Lee Carroll, who was the second Governor Carroll of Maryland, and who is the great-grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Kingston Hall has always had the reputation of having the best table and cooking on the eastern shore of Maryland. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Ada Carroll Bowdle, wife of Dr. Bowdle of the United States Navy, and daughter of Governor Thomas King Carroll, these old recipes from Kingston Hall are given : VEGETABLE SOUP {Kingston Hall) To make a dinner pot of vegetable soup for a family of seven or eight, put on in cold water i\ pounds beef and boil till tender. Then add the following, finely cut up: 5 good-sized potatoes, 4 carrots, \ dozen medium-sized turnips, I of a small head of cabbage, 1 can of JO Kingston Hall