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The History of Food in ‘Housekeeping in Old Virginia’

This cookbook is a time capsule of our Southern food traditions. While some of the recipes are probably not to our modern tastes, many are.

The pie’s name comes from the Latin minuere, “to diminish,” and of course mincemeat referred originally to a meat that had been minced up.

One day an old woman wanted to bake some biscuits but she needed some sody. She sent the little boy to the store to buy some sody sallyraytus.

Dried apple stack cake is one of the most popular Appalachian cakes— no surprise considering apples are found aplenty in the mountains.

Tradition holds that Pudding Ridge, NC, in Davie County, got its name one rainy day in February 1781 during a Revolutionary War engagement.

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