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.

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672 Papering 443 Quinsy .629 Papered wall, to clean... 449 Rag carpet. 447 Dress, to wash. .527 Parcels .445 Raisins ..508 Embroideries. ..524 Parlor, the.

Parsley, to keep...... ...539 .432 Rainy days.. ...444 To cleanse......525-526, 531 Rashes, to distinguish...634 Silk, to do up.. 528 Parsnips, to keep 539 Silk gloves.. ..527 RATS, trap for.... ..669 Silk hat, to dry. ..662

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