The University of Alabama Press reprinted a cookbook published in 1878 by the women of the St. Francis Street Methodist Church, Mobile. The new edition, with an introduction by George H. Daniels. Taken as a whole, Gulf City Cook Book illustrates the diet, economic situation, and some of the traditions of Mobile's upper-middle class at the end of the 1870s. In Alabama Heritage Issue 18, a portion of Professor Daniels' introduction is reprinted along with selected recipes. Below is a recipe for Oyster Soup and Sliced Sweet-Potato Pie.