Housekeeping in the Blue Grass

The category of "e;charity cookbook"e; is a favorite in American culinary history. Funds raised by sales of these cookbooks, with recipes donated by women's groups and church societies, were used to aid a wide variety of local causes and charities. Housekeeping in the Blue Grass belongs in this category-an excellent example of regional cooking styles of the post-Civil War Midwest. Several hundr...