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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Smoked Beef

To a piece of beef weighing about twelve or fourteen pounds, you rub in the following: 1 pint salt. 1 cup brown sugar. 1 cup molasses. 1/2 teaspoonful pounded saltpetre.

Rub this well on the beef and turn it several times. At the end of ten days drain it, rub bran on it, hang it up and smoke for several days.--Mrs. H. T.

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