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Foodways: 19th Century Cookbooks

19th Century Cookbooks

Julian John Chisolm.  A Manual of Military Surgery, for the Use of Surgeons in the Confederate States Army:  With an Appendix of the Rules and Regulations of the Medical Department of the Confederate States Army (Richmond, VA:  West & Johnson, 1862).  Appendix No. 3 is "Directions for Cooking by Troops in Camp and Hospital."  Call Number:  RD151 C56 1862.

Confederate Receipt Book:  A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts Adapted to the Time (Athens:  University of Georgia Press, [1960]).  Reprint of original edition published by West & Johnson in Richmond, Virginia in 1863.  Call Number:  TX153 C7 1960.

Gladiola Branscome Harris, comp.  Old Trace Cooking:  Native American and Pioneer Recipes (Oakland, MS:  G.B. Harris, 1981).  Cooking of Mississippi pioneers and Indians from the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Natchez tribes.  Call Number:  TX715 H33.

Elizabeth E. Lea.  A Quaker Woman’s Cookbook:  The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (Philadelphia, PA:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).  Reprint (with new introduction) of original manuscript begun in Delaware in 1821 and later published in the 1845.  From the John T. Edge Collection.  Call Number:  TX715 L39 1982.

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