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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Coffee Cake

1 teacup of molasses. 1 cupful of good liquid coffee. 1 cupful sugar. 1 cupful butter. 4 cupfuls flour. 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful cloves. 1 teaspoonful cream tartar. 1/2 teaspoonful soda. 1 pound of raisins. 1/4 pound of citron. 3 eggs. 1/2 wine-glass of brandy.--Mrs. J.H.F.

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