“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.

The Arts Of The Toilet

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

Tonic for the Hair

Ounce best castor-oil, two ounces each of French brandy and bay rum; scent with rosemary and rose-geranium. and bay rum; scent with…

The Arts of the Toilet

excessive perspiration. Warts are removed by steeping the hands in warm water for half an hour, and then paring away the white and…

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