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Authors: Mark Kurlansky
The Food of a Younger Land (49 page)
Publisher: Rudasill Printing Company, Canton, Ga.
Place of Publication: Canton, Georgia.
Date of Publication: 1925.
This book has 86 pages of delicious recipes contributed by people of Canton, Georgia. All the recipes are practical and were published in hopes of making menu planning and good cooking easier for the busy housewives of today. There are sixteen chapters in the book, each on different types of dishes such as vegetables, meats, cakes, pies and beverages.
Cranberry snow, salmon rice loaf, creamed chicken hash and Southern punch are only a few of the many tasty recipes in this book.
Owner: Mrs. Luna A. Doolittle
1021 D’Antignac St., Augusta, Ga.
1021 D’Antignac St., Augusta, Ga.
Title: Spartanburg Housekeepers Cook Book
Presented by: Red Cross Flour Company, 1907.
This book has 132 pages of delicious and practical recipes. Although the recipes are written primarily for every day use, it has many helpful suggestions for dinners for festive occasions.
A very interesting recipe gives instructions on the curing of a 200 pound hog.
It tells how every part, from head to toe should be prepared.
Among the recipes for desserts is a very appetizing one for Bachelor Pudding.
Owner: Mrs. Luna A. Doolittle 1021 D’Antignac St., Augusta, Ga.
Title: Dr. Chase’s Third, Last and Complete Receipt Book and Household Physician or Practical Knowledge for the People.
Author: A. W. Chase, M.D.
Publisher: Rowland Publishing Co., Atlanta, Ga. 1888.
This book has the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts and useful information on medicine, mechanics and household economy. Tasty recipes that will appeal to the sick person are wine jelly, arrowroot, pap, egg toast and graham pudding.
Delicious fruit or berry fritters and Prince of Wales cake are among the recipes for well people.
Owner: Mrs. Fennell 129 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Title: Fifty-two Sunday Dinners
Author: Elizabeth O. Hiller
Published by: The H. K. Fairbanks Co.,
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Copyright 1913 by H. K. Fairbanks Co.
Price: $1.00
This little book about 5 × 10 inches and 1 inch thick, has menus and recipes for fifty-two complete dinners, a dinner for every Sunday in the year. There are quotations and illustrated pictures for decorations and table services for each of these dinners. Included also are many interesting facts on the selection of meats and vegetables. The recipes for cherry pie in the spring and maced yams in the fall are two of the most tempting recipes given.
Owner: Mrs. A. H. Nichols 408 - 3rd St., Augusta, Ga.
Title: The White House Cook Book
Authors: Hugo Zieman and Mrs. F. L. Gillette
Publisher: The Saalfield Publishing Company, N. Y., Akron, Ohio, Chicago, 1908.
Price: $2.00 - 590 Pages.
This book has much valuable information for the housewife. There are chapters on cooking, menus, dinner giving, table etiquette and health suggestions. Facts concerning the White House such as the menus served on special occasions, pictures of the dining rooms and portraits of all the first ladies share a prominent place in this book.
Menus for one week in each month of the year provides for the serving of all seasonable vegetables. Among the many delicious recipes given are ones for baked turkey, cranberry sauce and cream gravy.
Owner: Mrs. Jack Rountree 257 Telfair St., Augusta, Ga.
Title: The “Dixie” Cook Book
Front cover and imprint leaf missing. 688 Pages.
This book has many practical recipes for everyday use that are of real value to all. Testimonials dated in 1880, praise the trustworthiness of the recipes for cakes, pies, vegetables, salads, ice cream, soups, bread, meat, meat curing, pickling. In the canning section there are some very good recipes for pickled peaches and sour Kraut. Also has useful information on household hints and management of servants.
Owner: Young Men’s Library, Augusta, Ga.
Title: Catering for Two
Author: Alice L. James
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 1907
Copyright: 1898
Price: No price listed.
Still in print? Don’t know.
This book contains recipes for two people and although they sound delicious, they were written at a time when a woman had little to do but cook. Some of the recipes that are especially good, as well as practical, are oyster pie, hot potato salad and Princess cream. Others such as green tomato chili sauce, oxtail soup and steamed cherry pudding are listed as every day dishes, but the busy woman of today would not have time to prepare them.
“Throw a few sticks of kindling on the fire and then set meat in oven;” “put in cold water to chill;” and “bake in a quick, but not fierce oven” are only a few of the quaint and out-of-date instructions given.
Owner: Mrs. Ruby Johnson
805 - 13th St., Augusta, Ga.
805 - 13th St., Augusta, Ga.
Title: Recipes of all Nations
Author: Countess Morphy
Publisher: Wise & Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 1935
Price: $2.00
Still in Print? Yes.
This book contains over eight hundred pages of recipes from twenty-nine different countries. Many have never been in print before but all are typical from the country from which they came. A few of the tasty dishes for which this book gives the recipes are:
Bleeny, a Russian pancake made of buckwheat flour, which is served with sour cream and caviar.
“Intoxicated Pig,” an Italian dish, received its name from the red wine in which it is cooked.
Spanish Beefsteak, which is prepared by stewing the steak in an earthenware dish and serving with stuffed eggplant.
Shepherd’s Pie, an English dish prepared from left-overs.
Many varieties of French pastry.
Owner: Junior College, Augusta, Ga.
Title: The Settlement Cook Book
Author: Compiled by Mrs. Simon Kander
Publisher: The Settlement Cook Book Co.
Place of Publication: Milwaukee, Wis.
Date of Publication: 1940.
Price: $2.50
Still in Print? Yes.
This book contains over 3,000 recipes of which hundreds are in no other cook book. Simple directions cover entire field of cookery. It not only tells you how to cook, but tells you what to cook. Menus for daily use, informal and formal dinners, holiday dinners and all festive occasions are given. Liver loaf, chicken (Creole style), and Swedish layer cake are only a few of the tempting recipes given.
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Acknowledgments
I want to first of all thank Patrick Kerwin, a manuscript reference librarian at the Library of Congress, for his patience and invaluable assistance. I also want to thank Susan Birnbaum for her help. And my sister Ellen Kurlansky for her hospitality and friendship in Washington. Also my wonderful agent, Charlotte Sheedy, for standing by me, Geoffrey Kloske for his faith in me, and my great editor, Nancy Miller, with whom I have had such a good time doing a dozen books. And a special thanks to Marian, whom I love even more than all the good clams we’ve eaten.
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Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers’ Project
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Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers’ Project
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The Oxford Companion to Food
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Cape Cod Pilot: A Loquacious Guide
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Index
(R)
denotes either a recipe or an essay that includes one or more recipes.
denotes either a recipe or an essay that includes one or more recipes.
African-American Recipes, Mississippi
(R)
(R)
African-Americans in South
African-American writers
Alabama: Baked Fish of Alabama’s Coast
(R)
; Cane Grindings and Candy Pullings; Eggnog
(R)
; Eufaula, Alabama, Oyster Roasts
(R)
; Footwashing at Lonely Dale
(R)
; Cane Grindings and Candy Pullings; Eggnog
(R)
; Eufaula, Alabama, Oyster Roasts
(R)
; Footwashing at Lonely Dale
Algren, Nelson: Flowering Savannahs ; Land of Mighty Breakfasts ; as Writers’ Project author
Alsberg, Henry
America during WPA years
America Eats
: abandonment of project ; concept for; final editing; manuscripts ; regional divisions
: abandonment of project ; concept for; final editing; manuscripts ; regional divisions
American Diet, A Short History of the: author profile; Flowering Savannahs; Land of Mighty Breakfasts
American Guide Series
apple(s): dumplings
(R)
; fried apple pies ; jellied
(R)
; pan dowdy
(R)
; and red cabbage
(R)
; spiced pickled
(R)
; Waldorf Salad
(R)
; Washington Aplets and Cotlets
(R)
; fried apple pies ; jellied
(R)
; pan dowdy
(R)
; and red cabbage
(R)
; spiced pickled
(R)
; Waldorf Salad
(R)
; Washington Aplets and Cotlets
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