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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Baking Powder

Sixteen ounces corn starch, eight of bicarbonate of soda, five of tartaric acid; mix thoroughly. - Mrs. Dr. Allen, Oberlin , Ohio.

Eight ounces flour, eight of English bicarbonate of soda, seven of tartaric acid; mix thoroughly by passing several times through a sieve.-Mrs. Trimble, Mt. Gilead, Ohio.

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