This cookbook was written in 1907 and contains numerous racist thoughts as well as glowing, fawning descriptions of the high-born* Southern belles that supposedly contribute the recipes.

Except—did any woman in the Washington, Marshall, or Carroll family actually cook anything? I’m beginning to wonder whose recipes these were. I highly doubt that George Washington’s granddaughter spent three days making pickled fruit or this thing called Chow Chow.

*As in, last names found in US history books