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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Antidotes

Alkalies-Soap and milk, chalk, soda, lime-water.

Vegetable Acids-Vinegar, oil in abundance.

Common salt, moderately.

Send for the doctor and his stomach pump.

Oak-bark, strong green tea.

BARYTA OR LIME. Epsom salts, oils, and magnesia.

Whites of eggs, or strong coffee.

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