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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CRUST COFFEE. -Toast bread very brown, pour on boiling water, strain and add cream and sugar and nutmeg, if desired. cream and sugar and nutmeg, if desired.

CREAM SOUP.-One pint boiling water, half tea-cup cream; add broken pieces of toasted bread and a little salt. of toasted bread and a little salt.

WINE WHEY. -One pint of boiling milk, two wine-glasses of wine, boil a moment, stirring well; take out the curd, sweeten and flavor the whey.

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