The Dixie Cook-Book

“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.

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A Convenient Knife And

SPOON TRAY. - This is made of strong Japanned tin and has a separate apartment for knives, spoons and forks, and teaspoons.

It is also provided with a convenient handle. A wooden box may be made by an ingenious man in the same form, that will be equally convenient.

Lucky is the woman who has the ingenious man at hand, who has the time and is willing to spend it in fitting up the kitchen with such conveniences. A FISH-KETTLE. -The engraving represents a fish-kettle. The fish is placed on the perforated tin sheet which is then then put into the kettle of water, and when done the perforated sheet with fish is removed, and the fish is unbroken. It may then be placed for a moment over an empty iron kettle set over the stove and allowed to drain and steam. Then slip carefully on a napkin in the hot platter on which it is to be served.

CAKE SPOON. - This is a peculiar form of spoon, the spaces through the bowl of which double the amount of work done by it in beating cakes, eggs, etc.

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