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.

Dress Making At Home

5 receipts in this part of The Dixie Cook-Book.

Intelligent Shopping

There are a few things that every shopper ought to know. She should, for one thing, know exactly how much money it is proper or expedient…

Cutting

In cutting goods, economy of material is a consideration never to be lost sight of. Make a close calculation before using the scissors at…

Renovating

If the silk is very dirty, spread each breadth on a large table, and sponge it upon both sides with warm water mixed with ox gall.-Rinse…

Children's Clothing

Very few grown people understand the hardship it is to little folks to wear outgrown or clumsy or ill-fitting garments. Boys are not…

Elderly Ladies

Young people sometimes feel that it makes very little difference how mothers and grandmothers dress as long as they themselves can make as…

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