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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Jumbles (Pounds flour pounds sugar)

3 pounds flour. 2 pounds sugar. 1 pound butter. 8 eggs. 1 teaspoonful soda. A little milk if the eggs are not enough.--Mrs. M.E.

Jumbles.

Rub one pound butter into one and a quarter pound flour; beat four eggs with one and a quarter pound sugar, very light; mix well with the flour. Add one nutmeg and a glass of brandy.--Mrs. J.W.

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