Learn what the Southern woman cooked (the recipes) and how she cooked them in these five old cookbooks. All
free.
There are tons--well, not tons, because they're digital--but they're a lot of cookbooks on the Internet Archive. But which ones of them are any good? The blog post referenced below has five cookbooks that have been vetted, apparently, so you'll know that you're getting good recipes and stuff.
http://gardenandgun.com/blog/classic...ks-free-charge.
There's a digital cookbook from some Jewish organization of women in Louisville, Kentucky maybe a hundred years ago or more, that I'm going to dig up one of these days. Had a tab for it in my web browser, but the 'puter crashed on me.