pound cake (from kitchen of varina howell davis)
(Personal Recipe of Varina Howell Davis, from the The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Ingredients:
12 eggs
1 lb. sugar
1 lb. butter
1 lb. all-purpose flour
1 wine glass of wine
Instructions:
Cream the butter, stir the sugar into it, separate eggs, beat very light, mix in the ingredients, bake very slowly.
This recipe is from the personal collection of Varina Howell Davis, Jefferson Davis' wife. Her original recipes were given to Beauvoir by her daughter, Margaret (pictured below).
This is Margaret's wedding portrait. She was the only one of the Davis children to marry, bear children, and outlive her parents. On New Year's Day in 1876 she married J. Addison Hayes in Memphis.
(Courtesy of Beauvoir, Biloxi, Miss.)
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