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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Cheap Ginger Cakes

3 pints of flour. 1 large spoonful of lard. 2 large spoonfuls of ginger. 1 dessertspoonful of soda in a pint of molasses. --Mrs. H. S. GINGER BUNNS. 3/4 pound butter, 1/2 pound sugar, rubbed to a cream. 1/2 nutmeg. 1 tablespoonful ginger.

Stir all together, then add two eggs well beaten, stir in one pound of flour and moisten with sweet milk, until it can be easily worked. Roll out and bake in quick oven.--Mrs. H. D.

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