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.

Griddle-Cakes

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

Vanities

Beat two eggs, stir in a pinch of salt and a half tea-spoon rose-water, add sifted flour till just thick enough to roll out, cut with a…

Griddle-Cakes (Griddle-cakes should be well)

Griddle-cakes should be well beaten when first made, and are much lighter when the eggs are separated, whipping the yolks to a thick cream…

Buckwheat Cakes

Buckwheat flour, when properly ground, is perfectly free from grits. The grain should be run through the smutter with a strong . The grain…

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…

French Pancakes

Beat together till smooth six eggs and half a pound of flour, melt four ounces butter and add to the batter, with one ounce of sugar ounces…

Beauregard Batter Cakes

Make a batter of one quart each of flour and sour milk, three eggs beaten separately, a table-spoon of butter, and two level teaspoons…

Carolina Flapjacks

One quart boiling milk, two cups white Indian meal, one small cup flour, one table-spoon each butter and brown sugar, one teaspoon soda…

Crumb Griddle Cakes

The night before using put some bread crumbs to soak in one quart of sour milk; in the morning rub through a sieve, and add four…

Flannel Cakes

Make hot a pint of sweet milk, and into it put two heaping tablespoons butter, let melt, then add a pint of cold milk, the wellbeaten yolks…

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