Old Southern Receipts.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1930. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xii, 228 pages. FIRST EDITION. The author explains, "... more than two hundred of the receipts in this book have been given to me especially for it by people 'who keep good tables' and use only Southern cooking" (the Foreword). Mary Denson Pretlow (1876-1959) was born and raised on Marle Hill Plantation near Courtland in Southampton County.....
