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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To Make Green Tomato Sauce

16 pounds tomatoes. 7 pints good cider vinegar. 4 pounds brown sugar. 1/2 pint celery-seed. 1/2 pint mustard-seed. 1 1/2 pints onions, cut fine. 1 teacup ground mustard. 1/2 ounce mace. 2 ounces cinnamon. 1 ounce allspice. 1/2 ounce cloves. 1/2 pound black pepper.

Put all of the spices in the vinegar, and boil one hour. Then put in the tomatoes, which you must slice the night before, and put one layer of salt and one of tomatoes. Drain the water off, and boil the tomatoes in the spiced vinegar till done.--Mrs. Dr. S.

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