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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Angel's Bread

A variety of Cocoanut Cake. 1 cup butter. 2 cups sugar. 3 cups flour. Whites of eight eggs. 1/2 cup sweet milk. 1/2 teaspoonful soda, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, stirred in the milk. Flavor with vanilla. Bake in jelly-cake pans. 1 grated cocoanut. Spread top and bottom of cake with icing, then put on the cocoanut, and so on till your cake is large as you wish. Ice the whole cake, and sprinkle on cocoanut. Make the icing, three whites to one pound of pulverized sugar, with juice of one lemon.--Mrs. D. R.

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