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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Weights of Articles

Apples, dried, bushel, 25 pounds.

Flour, barrel, net, 196 pounds.

Beef, firkin, 100 66 Honey, gallon, 12 66 Pork, barrel, 200 " Beans, bushel, 60 66 Salt, barrel, 3½ bushels.

Butter, firkin, 56 " " bushel, 70 pounds. tub, “ Molasses, hhd., 130 to 150 gallons.

Sugar, barrel, 200 to 250 pounds.

Peaches, dried, bushel, 33 “ Soap, barrel, Fish, barrel, " box, " quintal, " Tea, chest, 60 to 84 " (418)

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