22 pp. With 5 inserted chromolithographed plates with illustrations on both sides, printed on card stock, with embossed borders. 16.7x12 cm (6½x4¾"), wrappers with raised lettering & a label for Dixie Baking Powder, leather spine.
Rare little New Orleans recipe book, centered on the use of Dixie baking products, particularly their baking powder, with a picture of the Gulf Manufacturing Co. building, where it is made, on the back cover. Notable are the striking chromolithographed plates, with ten images on both sides of five leaves of card stock - five are pleasant genre scenes, and five feature the use of Dixie Baking Powder, one with a decidedly racist bent, an African American woman wearing an apron in a kitchen, scratching her head and wondering aloud, "I dun'no, what to do, this Baking Powder is no good, I oughter got de Dixie Brand, dat I hear eberbody praising." OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of this 22-page edition, that they date 1896, at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Delaware, and the Historic New Orleans Collection. Also listed are two copies of a 16-page edition they date 1893, and an undated 23-page edition.