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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Place half a pint of port and six heaping table-spoons of white sugar in a bowl; in another vessel put one quart of sweet milk or cream, lukewarm; when sugar dissolves, pour in milk, holding it high, grate nutmeg over it. - Mrs. M. E. Porter, Prince George Court House, Va.

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