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.

Something About Babies

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

Aunt Martha's Prescriptions

GIVE a babe, one to four weeks old, two teanspoons saffron tea (made by simmering a teaspoon dry saffron in half a teacup water), once…

Aunt Eva's Way

This is the idea to start with that we are dealing with little people. To be sure they are fearfully and wonderfully made, but only in the…

Teething

When the first signs of the teeth appear, the salivary glands are so far developed that the secretion of saliva is large, and "drooling" is…

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