The Dixie Cook-Book

“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.

The Dixie Kitchen

5 receipts in this part of The Dixie Cook-Book.

Sol Eyting

"LOVE IN A COTTAGE." - "NEVER MIND; DON'T CRY, PET, I'LL DO ALL THE COOKING." AFTER DRAWING BY SOL. EYTINGE, JR., (BY PERMISSION OF HARPER…

Carefully Compiled

FROM THE TREASURED FAMILY COLLECTIONS OF MANY GEN- ERATIONS OF NOTED HOUSEKEEPERS: LARGELY SUPPLE- MENTED BY TESTED RECIPES OF THE MORE…

Publishers' Notice

In attempting to plan a thoroughly practical work on Housekeeping and kindred subjects that would meet the real needs of the Southern…

Preface (Multitude of counsel is said)

"In a multitude of counsel" is said to be wisdom. If this be true of any thing, it certainly is of cookery. The present candidate for favor…

Preface (We may learn the fine art)

we may learn the fine art of spending money wisely, perhaps, as well as that of dress, from our neighbors across the water. It is a…

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