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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Alabama Johnny Cake

Cook a pint of rice till tender, add a table-spoon butter; when cold add two beaten eggs and one pint meal, and when mixed spread add two beaten eggs and one pint meal, and when mixed spread on an oaken board and bake by tipping the board up before the fireplace. When done on one side turn over. The dough should be spread half an inch thick. -Mrs. Young, Ala.

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