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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White Mountain Ash Cake

1 pound white sugar. 1 teacup of butter. 1/2 teacup sweet milk. Whites of 10 eggs. 1/2 small teaspoonful of soda. 1 teaspoonful cream tartar. 3 cups of flour. Flavor with vanilla or almond.

Bake in jelly-cake pans, with icing and cocoanut between. Icing for cake.-One pound fine white sugar, and whites of three eggs.--Miss E. P.

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