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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Damson Pickle

7 pounds fruit. 1 ounce cinnamon. 1 ounce cloves. 1 ounce mace. 1 ounce celery-seed. 3 pounds brown sugar.

Spices to be beaten fine; put them in the jar, sprinkling the spice through in layers boil one quart vinegar with the sugar, and pour over the fruit and spices. Repeat the scalding of the vinegar for four days.--Mrs. C. N.

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