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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Clabber Bread

Beat four eggs separately; take two cups of clabber, one tablespoon butter (slightly heaped, and place where it will soften), a teaspoon each soda and salt; mix with flour to a stiff batter; grease pan, pour in batter, and let rise an hour before baking. Excellent.

— Mrs. B.'S Corn Bread

One quart sour milk, three eggs, two table-spoons lard or butter (or half and half), one table-spoon sugar, a pinch of salt, handful of wheat flour, and enough corn meal (sifted) to make a good batter; add one heaping tea-spoon soda, stir thoroughly, and bake in long dripping pan.

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