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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Citron Cake

12 ounces flour. 12 ounces butter. 10 eggs. 1 pound sugar. 1 pound citron, cut in thin slices. Mix like a pound cake.--Mrs. C. L. T. Citron Cake. 4 large coffeecups sifted flour. 2 1/2 cupfuls powdered sugar. 1 cupful butter. Whites of 10 eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Add two tablespoonfuls rose water.

Butter a cake pan, and put alternate layers of batter and citron sliced in long, thin slices.--Mrs. McG.

Citron Cake. 1 pound flour. 1 pound sugar. 3/4 pound butter. 12 eggs. 2 pounds citron. 2 pounds grated cocoanut. 2 pounds almonds. 1 teaspoonful mace.--Mrs. M. E. Citron Cake. 1 pound of flour. 1/2 pound of sugar. 3/4 pound of butter. 10 or 12 eggs. 2 pounds of citron. 1 cocoanut, grated.

Fruit to be put in last.--Mrs. Dr. S.

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