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.

Miscellaneous

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

Poison

RUST IN IRON. -Kerosene-oil will remove it. TO SCOUR TINS. - Use whiting moistened with kerosene. MELTED SNOw-produces oneeighth of its…

To Keep Pearls Brilliant

Keep in common, dry magnesia, instead of the cotton wool used in jewel cases, and they will never lose their brilliancy. cotton wool used…

To Make Boots and Shoes Durable

Apply to the soles four or five successive coats of gum-copal varnish; and, to the uppers, a mixture of four parts of lard to one of rosin…

To Ascertain Amount Of

GAS USED.-Read from lefthand dial, always taking the 18 figures which the index hands have passed, viz.: By these 9 7 dials, register 436…

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