Confederate Home Cooking - Paperback

by Patricia B. Mitchell (Author)

Confederate Home Cooking, by Patricia B. Mitchell, tells how Southern women coped with food shortages brought on by decreased agricultural production, blockades, and other war-created situations. Included in Confederate Home Cooking are actual accounts by women who experienced the war and the cooking challenges it engendered. Recipes of the time period are presented, as well as commemorative recipes. Endnotes for quotations and recipes make this book an especially valuable resource for lovers of history. 135 numbered pages including index. 56 recipes, including both historical receipts and commemorative dishes. 108 research notes. First published as a Compact Edition in 1990; this Bookshelf Edition published in 2018.

Author Biography

Patricia B. Mitchell began foodwriting in the early 1970s as a contributor to The Community Standard magazine in New Orleans. Since 1986 she has authored more than one hundred titles on food and lifestyle history, with well over three-quarters of a million copies sold.