“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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Tennessee Cake

One pint sifted meal, half a pint flour, eight eggs, half a pound each butter and sugar; nutmeg and cinnamon to taste. Beat butter and sugar together, add eggs, then meal and flour gradually. Beat all well, and bake an hour and a half. To be eaten soon after baking.--"Aunt Katie," McMinnville.

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Tennessee Cake

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