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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Economical Plum Pudding

4 cupfuls flour. 11/2 cup of suet. 1 cupful milk. 2 cupfuls raisins. 1 cupful molasses. 2 eggs, and 1 teaspoonful of soda. Boil four hours.--Mrs. L. Another Recipe for the Same.

One bowl of raisins, one of currants; one of bread crumbs; one bowl of eggs; one of brown sugar; one of suet; citron at pleasure. Boil four hours.--Mrs. L.

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