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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Wheaten Gems

Mix one tea-spoon baking powder and a little salt into one pint flour; add to the beaten yolks of two eggs one tea-cup sweet milk ; add to the beaten yolks of two eggs one tea-cup sweet milk or cream , a piece of butter (melted) half the size of an egg, the flour with baking-powder and salt mixed, and the well-beaten whites of the two eggs. Beat well, bake immediately in gem-pans in a hot oven, and take out and send to the table immediately. - Mrs. Gib Hillock,

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