Estate Sale - Hardin Drive ~ Vintage Southern Charm - Favorite Recipes of the Deep South and Mrs. Georgia 1964

Favorite Recipes of the Deep South, published in 1964.  This book has 800 recipes from Women's Club leaders in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.  The cookbook was a fund raiser for the American Legion Axillary and many of the recipes originated from the plantation days and were handed down through the generations with some being printed for the first time ever. Lots of old fashioned Southern Cooking and many of the recipes in this book I have seen pop up in other church/community cookbooks.

Mrs. Georgia Recipe Book, published in 1964. Quite excited to find this little booklet!  I have the 1965, 1966 & 1968 editions, but have never seen this earlier copy. Each contestant submitted a recipe and a little blurb as to why they chose that particular dish. All the contestants were judged on three criteria: Homemaking abilities - which in addition to cooking included sewing, child care, table setting and floral arranging (!!), Poise (personality and grooming) and community affairs (club and church) . The winner for 1964 was Mrs. James (Elaine) Whitehurst of Macon, Georgia.

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