Housekeeping in Old Virginia

Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.

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Albany Cakes

1 1/2 pound flour. 1 1/2 pound brown sugar. 1 1/2 pound butter. 1 tablespoonful lard. 4 tablespoonfuls powdered cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in a cup of milk.

Roll on extra flour very thin. Dip the face of each cake in granulated sugar. Bake slowly in greased pans.--Mrs. R.R.

SCOTCH CAKES. (Very nice.) 2 pounds flour. 1 1/2 pound sugar. 1 pound butter. 6 eggs, beaten together. 3 nutmegs.--Mrs. P. McG.

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