“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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Bride's Cake

Whites of twelve eggs, three cups sugar, small cup butter, a cup sweet milk, four small cups flour, half cup corn-starch, two tea spoons baking-powder, lemon to taste. Adding a cup citron sliced thin and dusted with flour, makes a beautiful citron cake. -Mrs. Harvey Clark, Piqua.

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