“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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One ounce of ammonia dissolved in a pint of milk overnight, four eggs, four cups of sugar, two of butter, one table-spoon of salt, currants and candied orange-peel to taste; mix soft. Unrivaled.- Mrs. Hicks, Macon.

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