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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Chow-Chow Pickle (Peck green tomatoes large)

1/2 peck green tomatoes. 2 large cabbages. 15 onions. 25 cucumbers. 1 plate horseradish. 1/2 pound mustard-seed. 1 ounce celery-seed. 2 ounces ground pepper. 2 ounces turmeric. 1/2 ounce cinnamon.

Cut the onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage in small pieces; pack them down overnight in salt, lightly; in the morning pour off the brine, and put them to soak in weak vinegar two days; drain again, and mix the spices. Boil half a gallon vinegar and three pounds sugar, and pour over them hot. Mix two boxes ground seed.--Mrs. R. A.

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