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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Soups and Vegetables (Invert the whole so)

invert the whole so that the pudding may rest on the dish, lift off basin and remove cloth. The use of the cold water is to chill and solidify the surface so that it may part from the cloth smoothly. Plum pudding may also be baked (two hours) or steamed (three hours), in a well buttered mold or pan, but it is then better with two teaspoonfuls baking powder.

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