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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Cream Sponge Cake

4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately. 2 teacupfuls sugar. 1 cupful sweet cream. 2 heaping cupfuls flour. 1 teaspoonful soda.

Two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, mixed in the flour before it is sifted. Add whites of eggs last thing before the flour, the stir that in gently, without beating. Very nice.--Mrs. F. C. W.

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