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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Snow Mountain Cake

1 cup of butter. 3 cups of sugar, creamed together. 1 cup of sweet cream. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar and 1/2 teaspoon of soda, sprinkled in 3 1/2 cups of sifted flour. Whites of 10 eggs.

Bake in thin cakes as for jelly cakes. Ice and sprinkle each layer with grated cocoanut.

Take the whites of three eggs for the icing, and grate one cocoanut.-Mrs.

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