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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Delicate Cake

2 cups white sugar. 21/2 cups corn starch. 8 tablespoonfuls butter. Whites of 8 eggs. 1/2 teaspoonful soda, dissolved in milk. 1/2 teaspoonful cream tartar in corn starch. Flavor with juice of one lemon.--Mrs. R. R. Delicate Cake.

One pound pulverized white sugar, seven ounces of butter (stirred to a cream). Whites of 16 eggs, beaten stiff. Stir in 1 pound of sifted flour. Flavor to the taste. Bake immediately.--Mrs. A. H.

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