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.

Drinks

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

Making Coffee

"One for the pot" and a heaping table-spoon of ground coffee for each person, is the usual allowance. Mix well, either with a part or the…

Filtered Coffee

The French coffee biggin furnishes the easiest means for filtering coffee. It consists of two cylindrical tin vessels, one fitting into the…

Making Tea

"Polly, put the kettle on, and we'll all take Tea." Of all "cups that cheer," there is nothing like the smoking-hot cup of tea, made with…

Army Coffee

Coffee or tea may be made quickly by placing the required quantity of cold water in the pot, and adding the coffee, tied up in a up in a…

Coffee with Whipped Cream

For six cups of coffee of fair size, take one cup sweet cream whipped light with a little sugar; put into each cup the desired amount of…

Coffee for One Hundred

Take five pounds roasted coffee, grind and mix with six eggs; make small muslin sacks, and in each place a pint of coffee , leaving room…

Steamed Coffee

Put coffee into the pot, pour the boiling water on it; place this pot (which is made to fit) into the top of the tea-kettle, and let cook…

Vienna Coffee

Filter instead of boiling the coffee, allowing one table-spoon ground coffee to each person and " one for the pot;" put a quart of cream…

Chocolate

Take six table-spoons scraped chocolate, or three of chocolate and three of cocoa, dissolve in a quart of boiling water, boil hard fifteen…

Vienna Chocolate

Put into a coffee-pot set in boiling water, one quart of new milk (or a pint each of cream and milk), stir into it three heaping…

Cider

Cider should be made from ripe apples only, and for this reason, and to prevent fermentation, it is better to make it late in the Use only…

Bottled Cider

Take good sweet cider (if a tart flavor is wished, iet it just begin to ferment), put on stove, skim thoroughly (as the great secret is to…

Grandmother's Harvest Drink

One quart of water, table-spoon sifted ginger, three heaping table-spoons sugar, half pint vinegar.

Eggnog

Stir half a cup of sugar (white), yolks of six eggs well beaten, into one quart of rich cream; add half a pint of brandy, flavor with…

Raspberry Shrub

Place red raspberries in a stone jar, cover them with good cider vinegar, let stand over night; next morning strain, and to one pint of…

Syllabub

Place half a pint of port and six heaping table-spoons of white sugar in a bowl; in another vessel put one quart of sweet milk or cream…

Soda Beer

Two pounds white sugar, whites of two eggs, two ounces tartaric acid, two table-spoons flour, two quarts water and juice of one lemon; boil…

Lemon Syrup

Take the juice of twelve lemons, grate the rind of six in it, let it stand over night, then take six pounds of white sugar, and make a…

Iced Tea

Prepare tea in the morning, making it stronger and sweeter than usual; strain and pour into a clean stone jug or glass bottle, and set…

To Preserve Cider Sweet

When fermentation begins draw cider off, rinse barrel, strain through flannel and pour back, take one pint , rinse barrel, strain through…

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