Although Margaret Loughborough’s diary is lost, her recipe book survives. It is now in Special Collections at the Georgetown University library. Her diary presumably was a similar-looking book. The recipe book has front and back covers and is bound together with a string that could be untied and retied to allow the insertion or deletion of pages. Some recipes are in Margaret’s handwriting. When she borrowed, she usually noted the name of the person that gave her the recipe — at least if that person was family or famous. My favorite recipe is for Confederate cake. It is a basic cake recipe, but that was Margaret’s joke. Confederates only had the bare essentials for baking; hence, those were the only ingredients for Confederate cake. 
Confederate cake
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I just saw this blog and of course I found it very interesting. A marvelous job. Did Cary Loughborough do the color copy of the portrait? One of the things I found very interesting as I looked at the family were the grave sites in Oak Hill Cemetery. You have the large cross for Nathan Loughborough and his wife. Then you have the Protestants buried on one side and the Cathoics buried on the other side. There are a couple of letters in the collections at Georgetown which show that there was not happiness over many who converted. There are also many unmarked graves which is a tradition of the Quakers from which Nathan Loughborough came. id you not send me a photo copy of at least a portion of Margaret Loughborough’s diary.
Presumably Caroline Loughborough painted the copy of the Nathan Loughborough portrait. However, to my knowledge, the copy isn’t signed. Someone came along later and wrote on the back of the painting that it was Cary’s.
Margaret’s diary is missing. She used the diary to write her recollections, which I may have sent you. They are reprinted in the book.