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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Horsford Buckwheat Cakes

Mix " over night," with warm water, a little salt, and a tablespoon molasses, one pint buckwheat flour, to the usual consistency molasses , one pint buckwheat flour, to the usual consistency of griddle-cakes. When ready to bake for breakfast, add one measure each of acid and soda (or two heaping tea-spoons acid and one moderately heaping teaspoon soda) of Horsford's Bread Preparation-thinning the batter if necessary-and bake immediately on a hot griddle.

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