Heading: (Southern)
Author: Home Department of the Ladies' Missionary Society of the Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta
Title: The Southern Housekeeper, A Book of Tested Recipes
Place Published: Atlanta
Publisher:Franklin Printing & Publishing
Date Published: 1898
Description:

139, [9] ad pp., [8] blank pp. titled "Fragments". Ads throughout for Atlanta businesses. Gilt-lettered brown cloth. First Edition.

An important 19th century Georgia cookbook, with one of the earliest recipes for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, as well as with a very early ad in rear for Coca-Cola. Contributors are all listed, and some of their other recipes include soft shell turtle soup, jombalaya, Cinderella pudding, watermelon sweet pickle, anisette cordial, chicken pie with eggs, and of course, Brunswick stew.

Owner's period recipes written on loose sheets of paper and laid-in loose, including one for mustard pickle on letterhead from Judge Thomas Heffries of Fulton County, Georgia.

Wear to extremities, contents shaken; front joint cracking, else good.