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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Almond Cake

1 1/4 pounds of sugar. 1 1/4 pounds of butter. 1 pound of flour. 12 eggs. 1 pound almonds.--Mrs. B.

Almond Cake. 12 eggs. 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar. 1 pound butter. 1 pound almonds (blanched). 1 pound citron.

Blanch the almonds, and slice the citron thin. One wine-glass of brandy. Mix like pound cake.--Mrs. S. T.

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