Housekeeping in Old Virginia

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  Index spellings were made consistent with the text.


  [Illustration: Cook preparing fowl in kitchen]




     HOUSEKEEPING
     IN OLD VIRGINIA.

     CONTAINING

     CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
     LADIES IN VIRGINIA AND HER SISTER
     STATES,

     _DISTINGUISHED FOR THEIR SKILL IN THE CULINARY ART AND
     OTHER BRANCHES OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY._


     EDITED BY

     MARION CABELL TYREE.


     "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
      rubies.... She looketh well to the ways of her household
      and eateth not the bread of idleness."

     _Prov., chap. 31, verses 10 and 27._

     JOHN P. MORTON & CO.,
     _LOUISVILLE, KY._
     1878.


     COPYRIGHT BY
     MARION CABELL TYREE.
     1877.




     _Dedicated_
     TO
     THE SISTER HOUSEKEEPERS,
     WHOSE KIND ASSISTANCE AND CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE SO MUCH
     LIGHTENED THE LABORS OF THE WRITER AND
     ENHANCED THE VALUE OF HER WORK.




GENERAL CONTENTS.


                                                            PAGE

     _Preface_                                                 7

     _List of Contributors_                                   11

     Bread                                                    19

     Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate                               61

     Milk and Butter                                          65

     Soup                                                     68

     Oysters and other Shell Fish                             85

     Fish                                                     97

     Game                                                    107

     Meats                                                   114

     Beef and Veal                                           136

     Mutton and Lamb                                         168

     Poultry                                                 176

     Salads                                                  190

     Sauces                                                  200

     Brunswick Stews, Gumbo, and Side Dishes                 211

     Eggs                                                    232

     Vegetables                                              238

     Pickles and Catsups                                     255

     Cake                                                    304

     Icing                                                   348

     Gingerbread                                             350

     Small Cakes                                             353

     Puddings                                                365

     Pudding Sauces                                          401

     Pastry                                                  404

     Fritters and Pancakes                                   416

     Jelly, Blanc-mange, Charlotte Russe, Baked Custard,
     Creams, and Miscellaneous Desserts                      417

     Ice Cream and Frozen Custard                            430

     Fruit Desserts                                          442

     Preserves and Fruit Jellies                             443

     Confectionery                                           458

     Wines                                                   461

     Beverages, Cordials, etc.                               468

     The Sick-Room--Diet and Remedies for the Sick           476

     House-cleaning, etc.                                    497

     Recipes for Restoring Old Clothes, Setting Colors,
     Removing Stains, etc.                                   505

     Miscellaneous Recipes                                   508




PREFACE.


Virginia, or the Old Dominion, as her children delight to call her,
has always been famed for the style of her living. Taught by the
example of her royal colonial governors, and the numerous adherents of
King Charles, who brought hither in their exile the graces and
luxuriousness of his brilliant court, she became noted among the
colonies for the princely hospitality of her people and for the beauty
and richness of their living. But when at length her great son in the
House of Burgesses sounded the cry of war, and her people made haste
to gird themselves for the long struggle, her daughters, not to be
outdone either in services or patriotism, set about at once the
inauguration of a plan of rigid retrenchment and reform in the
domestic economy, while at the same time exhibiting to their sisters a
nobl