About the Book
The Dixie Cook-Book was compiled from “the treasured family collections of many generations of noted housekeepers” and supplemented by recipes contributed by well-known ladies of the South. This is the revised edition, published in Atlanta by L. A. Clarkson & Company.
Like most household books of its day it reaches far past the kitchen: bread-making and cake-making sit alongside chapters on the laundry, dressmaking at home, the care of babies, medical receipts, and a full year's bill of fare.
It is also a document of the post-Reconstruction South, and its language reflects that; where the text carries period racial language it is left exactly as printed, with an editor's note.
This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR, reconciled page by page, one receipt to a page.