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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Cocoanut Pudding

Two grated cocoanuts. 1 pound sugar. 1/4 pound butter. 8 eggs, leaving out 4 whites.

Beat the eggs separately and to the yolks add the butter, sugar, cocoanut, and whites. Add a little wine or brandy, if you like. Bake in tins lined with pastry.--Mrs. D. R.

Cocoanut Pudding.

One-half pound butter, one-half pound sugar, a whole cocoanut grated, five eggs beaten to a froth, leaving out two whites Bake in plates with pastry underneath. The oven must not be too hot. Mrs. I. H. Cocoanut Pudding.

Stir together, 1/2 pound butter. 1/2 pound sugar. A glass of wine. 6 eggs (beaten light).

When all these ingredients have been stirred together till light, add a pound of grated cocoanut, mixed with a little stale cake.--Mrs. E.T. Cocoanut Pudding. 1 pound sugar. 1/4 pound butter. 3/4 pound grated cocoanut. 1/2 pint cream. 7 whole eggs, or 9 whites and 2 yolks. 1 lemon. Half a nutmeg. Stir butter and sugar as for cake. Beat eggs well. Bake some time.--Mrs. E.G. Cocoanut Pudding.

One grated cocoanut, one pound of sugar, one quarter of a pound of melted butter, and six eggs.--Mrs. M.S.C.

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