Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times
By Unknown Author.
Description
Originally published in 1863, this little book is a compilation of "receipts" to aid Southern households beset by shortages as the War Between the States raged on."Designed to supply useful and economic directions and suggestions in cookery, housewifery . . . and for the camp," these helpful hints first appeared in newspapers and other sources. The original edition was bound in yellow, polka-dot wallpaper. Only five copies of that edition were known to exist a hundred years later."A Cheap and Quick Pudding," "Apple Pie Without Apples," "Artificia...
ISBN(s)
0820305618, 9780820305615
