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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Yellow Lady's Cake

One and a half cups flour, one of sugar, half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, tea-spoon soda, two tea-spoons cream tartar, yolks One and a half cups flour, one of sugar, half cup butter, half of four eggs, tea-spoon vanilla. - Olivia S. Hinman, Battle Creek, Mich.

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