“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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Tilden Cake

One cup butter, two of pulverized sugar, one of sweet milk, three of flour, half cup corn-starch, four eggs, two tea-spoons bakingpowder, two of lemon extract. This is so excellent that a "barrel" would not be too much of it. - Mrs. J. L. Peters, Memphis, Tenn.

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Tilden Cake

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