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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Oil Mangoes

1 pound race ginger, well soaked, beaten and dried. 1 pound horseradish. 1 pound white mustard-seed. 1 pound black mustard-seed. 2 ounces ground mustard. 2 ounces black pepper. 2 ounces turmeric. 2 ounces cloves. 1/2 ounce mace. 1 ounce celery-seed. 2 pounds sugar.

Beat the ingredients together in a mortar, and mix the mustard with as much olive oil as will make a paste. Then after the mangoes have been in brine two weeks, and greened as you would cucumbers, stuff them; if any filling is left, sprinkle between the layers in the jar. Pour over as much boiling vin egar as will cover them.--Mrs. T. C.

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