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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Dress Making at Home

To beat quickiy.

To beat. ..661 ..466 Flie Fleas, to drive off.

In boiling water. 530 ..445 How to dress ....598 Embroideries, to iron....523 Flies, to keep off......661-668 Floral 590-1 Economy in..... .598-9 Emergencies. .582-588 Taste vs. money. ...598 Enameled ware.. .464 FLOUR.

Rags and neatness. .598 Erasive fluid...... .526 Art in dress..... ...599 Ermine, to clean...

To select. 509 ..661 Fitness in dress.. .599 Erysipelas, cure for........631 Patent process. 474 Poverty 599 Self-respect. .599

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