“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.

Food For The Sick

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

Food for the Sick

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

Raspberry Relish

To each pint of berry juice add one pound of sugar. Let it stand over night; next morning boil ten minutes, and bottle for use. it stand…

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