Here is a rare vintage 1st edition from Culinary Arts Press, 1939 titled OLD DIXIE RECIPES. Compiled and edited by Lillie S. Lustig, S. Claire Sondheim, Sarah Rensel. Decorations by H. Charles Kellum. Contains 322 Southern secrets - recipes that made the South famous.
See all the pictures!! Original binding of wooden covers with green loops through four holes. Only light wear to wood. Light tanning/foxing to pages around the edges from age. Very good condition.
Great book for historical reference. It contains about 40 illustrations, and 50 Poems and Spirituals. Good Southern cooking reference.
Many of these date back to the Civil War to the time the Southern Sates were known as the Confederate states of America, C.S.A. Confederacy.
Since mammies couldn't rely on written receipts (or recipes), most of the wonderful recipes from these great cooks derive from tradition and experience for many were not learned in the manner of reading and writing. They created magic in their kitchens with whatever they could.
Just a few of the wonderful recipes included are: Pigs in Blankets, Buttermilk Muffins, Confederate Coffee Cake, Pendennis Turtle Soup, North Carolina Syllabub, Corn Meal Mush, Hopping John, Creole Goulash, Pot Likker, Corn Meal Dodgers, Opossum, Cracklin Bread, Pickaninny Donuts, Plantation Soup, Kentucky Burgoo, Jambalaya (a Creole Dish), Chitterlings, Mississippi Cole Slaw, Miss Lee's Southern Corn Bread, Spoon Bread, Mulatto Bread, Beaten Biscuits, Chess Pie, New Orleans Crepes, Molasses Pudding, Fruit Cake, Confederate Coffee Cake, Short'nin' Bread, Topsy's Nut Drop Cookies, Colonial Cookies, Chocolate Indians, Florida Pralines, and Goober Brittle. The outer wooden covers measure 6 1/4" by 9 1/4" tall.
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