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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Black Cake (Two cups brown sugar one)

Two cups brown sugar, one and one-half cups of butter, six eggs, beaten separately, three cups flour (brown the flour), two tablespoons molasses, one of cinnamon, one tea-spoon mace, one of cloves, two cups sweet milk, two pounds raisins, two of currants, a half pound citron, one tea-spoon soda, two of cream tartar. Bake three hours. Mrs. Curtis, St. Louis, Mo.

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