“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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Fine French Sauce

Cream a small cup of sugar, and one (scant) of butter; add beaten yolk, or white if preferred, and a gill of wine; simmer a few moments, grate nutmeg over it when taken from fire. - Mrs. Harrison, Ky.

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