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The ladies of 1870s Chicago pooled their recipes and signed every one — corned beef from Mrs. Beaty, lemon pie from Mrs. Saulter.

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Lemon Cake

Mrs. J. H. Mead. f Half a cup of milk, half a cup of butter, two small cups of sugar, three small cups of flour, whites of four eggs, two teaspoons of cream of tartar, one teasp one teaspo soda ; flavour with lemon; beat the butter to a add eggs well whipped, then sugar; mix cream of in the flour, and soda in milk.

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