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.

This site is the complete 1883 book The Dixie Cook-Book, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →

The Receipts

Bread-Making

38 receipts

Breakfast And Tea Cakes

71 receipts

Griddle-Cakes

9 receipts

Yeast

13 receipts

Cake-Making

68 receipts

Layer-Cakes

36 receipts

Directions For Frosting

35 receipts

Ginger-Bread

14 receipts

Creams And Custards

31 receipts

Confectionery

18 receipts

Canning Fruits

21 receipts

Catsups And Sauces

30 receipts

Drinks

20 receipts

Eggs

14 receipts

Fish

26 receipts

Fruits

30 receipts

Game

16 receipts

Ices And Ice-Cream

17 receipts

Jellies And Jams

23 receipts

Meats

45 receipts

Pastry

62 receipts

Puddings And Sauces

50 receipts

Sauces

18 receipts

Preserves

28 receipts

Pickles

21 receipts

Sweet Pickles

23 receipts

Poultry

29 receipts

Salads

26 receipts

Shell-Fish

28 receipts

Soups

37 receipts

Vegetables

84 receipts

Ornamental Icing

15 receipts

Popular Dixie Dishes

17 receipts

A Year'S Bill Of Fare

21 receipts

Fragments

15 receipts

Housekeeping

5 receipts

House-Cleaning

4 receipts

General Suggestions

16 receipts

How To Give A Dinner

8 receipts

The Kitchen

7 receipts

Kitchen Luxuries

16 receipts

Household Conveniences

13 receipts

How To Cut And Cure Meats

6 receipts

The Laundry

8 receipts

Something About Babies

3 receipts

Hints For The Well

1 receipt

Food For The Sick

2 receipts

The Arts Of The Toilet

2 receipts

Accidents And Sudden Sickness

3 receipts

Floral

1 receipt

The Chemistry Of Food

2 receipts

Dress Making At Home

5 receipts

Medical

1 receipt

Miscellaneous

4 receipts

Index To Cookery Recipes

80 receipts

Index-Supplementary

78 receipts

The Dixie Kitchen

5 receipts

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Highlights

Corn Starch Pies

One quart milk, yolks of two eggs, two table-spoons corn starch, two cups sugar; mix starch in a little milk, boil the rest of…

Tomatoes

Diced 345 Canned .127 Baked. ..343 Steamed.. 345 Season for... .428 Canned 126 Season for... 428 Water-icing. 356 Escaloped…

Lemon Ice

To one pint of lemon juice, add one quart of sugar, and one quart of water, in which the thin rind of three lemons has been…

Baked Peaches

Wash peaches which are nearly or quite ripe, place in a deep dish, sprinkle with sugar, cover and bake until tender.

Marble Cake

White Part.-Whites of seven eggs, three cups white sugar, one of butter, one of sour milk, four of flour, sifted and heaping, one…

Southern Tomato Pie

For one pie, peel and slice green tomatoes, add four table-spoons vinegar, one of butter, three of sugar; flavor with nutmeg or…

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