Manual of domestic economy: by the editor of 'The Year-book of facts.'1847 |
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Page 98 - Persons who are in the habit of making their own bread can easily manufacture their own yeast by attending to the following directions. Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons of water for an hour; when milk warm bottle it and cork it close, and it will be fit for use in twenty-four hours. One pound of this yeast will make eighteen pounds of bread.
Page 111 - M'Culloch, of Edinburgh, has ascertained that the antiseptic quality of sugar is sufficient to preserve fish in the most excellent condition. He states, that this substance is so active, that fish may be preserved in a dry state, and perfectly fresh, by means of sugar alone, and even with a very small quantity of it. He has thus kept salmon, whitings, and cod, for an indefinite length of time ; and by this simple...
Page 70 - Boil two quarts of tar, with two ounces of kitchen-grease, for a quarter of an hour, in an iron pot. Add some of this tar to a mixture of slaked lime and powdered glass, which have passed through a flour- sieve, and been completely dried over the fire in an iron pot, in the proportion of two parts of lime and one of glass, till the mixture becomes of the consistence of thin plaster. The cement must be used immediately after being mixed...
Page 27 - Whim it is known that the blood undergoes most important changes in its circulation through the lungs by means of the air which we breathe, and that these vital changes can only be effected by the respiration of pure air, it will be easily understood how the healthy functions of the lungs must be impeded by inhaling for many successive hours the vitiated air of our bedrooms, and how the, health must be as effectually destroyed by respiring impure air, as by living on unwholesome or innutritious food.
Page 72 - Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle within a large one filled with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt.
Page 36 - A large party are invited to dinner — a great display is to be made ; — and about an hour before dinner, there is an alarm that the kitchen chimney is on fire ! It is impossible to put off the distinguished personages who are expected. It gets very late for the soup and fish, the cook is frantic — all...
Page 77 - ... to keep off the dirt. This removes the objection existing in small families against purchasing a whole cheese at a time. The common practice of buying small quantities of cheese should be avoided, as not only a higher price is paid for any given quality but there is little likelihood of obtaining exactly the same flavor twice running.
Page 82 - ... twice or thrice as many eggs as before. A well-fed fowl Is disposed to lay a vast number of eggs, but cannot do so without the materials for the shells, however nourishing in other respects her food may be ; indeed a fowl fed on food and water, free from carbonate of lime, and not finding any in the soil, or in the shape of mortar, which they often eat off the walls, would lay no eggs at all with the best will in the world.
Page 27 - ... to prevent the possibility of the air being renewed. The consequence is, that we are breathing vitiated air during the greater part of the night; that is, during more than a third part of our lives: and thus the period of repose, which is necessary for the renovation of our mental and bodily vigour, becomes a source of disease. Sleep under such circumstances is very often disturbed, and always much less refreshing than when enjoyed in a...
Page 113 - Mrs. Stewart was ready and willing to have hired and taken her into her service, if the defendant would have given her a character, and: such character was satisfactory ; that it was the duty of the defendant by law to have given her such character as she deserved ; and then assigned a breach, that the defendant, not regarding such her duty, wholly refused to give her any character whatever; by reason whereof the said Mrs.