Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
Ditto marks have been replaced with the text which they represent.
On page 51, the phrase starting "the over-night" may be missing words.
On page 214, the phrase "half a cup of water" may be missing words.
Index spellings were made consistent with the text.
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.