1887 VICTORIAN COOK BOOK ANTIQUE RECIPES HOME GUIDE HOUSEHOLD DECOR ARCHITECTURE
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1887 VICTORIAN COOK BOOK ANTIQUE RECIPES HOME GUIDE HOUSEHOLD DECOR ARCHITECTURE:
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The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home
A Household Manual
by
Laura C. Holloway
L. P. Miller & Co, Pictures Below**
This sale is for an original 1887 edition of \" The Hearthstone; or, Life at Home. A Household Manual \" by Laura C. Holloway. An Antique Victorian Household Guide. Including: Cookery, Recipes, Etiquette, Home Making, Home Management, Household Ornamentation, Crafts, Sewing and Needlework, Sports and Games for Ladies, Medicinal and Hygienic Recipes, The Lady\'s Toilet, Floriculture and Horticulture, The Kitchen in the Home, Cookery Recipes, Social Forms, Miscellaneous Household Recipes, etc., Everything needed in keeping a Victorian home. Containing Hints and Helps for Home Making; Home Furnishing; Decoration; Amusements; Health Directions; The Sick Room; The Nursery; The Library; The Laundry; etc. Together with a Complete Cookery Book. Published by L. P. Miller & Co, Chicago Ill., 1887. Hardcover. Original teal decorative cloth with gilt vignette and lettering to the cover and spine. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers. Illustrated with a Frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 16 full-page black and white plates with text engravings. 582 Pages. 6 5/8 x 8 3/4 \" tall. A rare and hard to find title. Full contents listed below. An excellent addition to a library or collection.
This copy is in Very Good condition!! The boards are clean and tight. There is light wear to the corners and spine ends. The binding and hinges are solid and tight. The pages are clean with light toning, light spotting on the frontispiece, front free endpaper and the Preface have tears by the spine, not affecting the text. No torn or missing pages. An excellent addition to a library or collection.
Contents
Homes, Ancient and Modern
The Idea of Home and How Associated--The Original Idea of the Ancients--David and His Palace--A Habitation in Israel--Its Minarets and Tower Homes for the Birds--Rowland Taylor\'s Remark--\"Lead, Kindly Light!--Loneliness of the Homeless--\"The Night is Dark, and I Am Far From Home\"--Howard Payne\'s World-Famous Song--The Secret of its popularity--the melody of every human heart--the prodigal son--like Joseph in his inquiries--the voice of the good Angel--To the \"Diggings\" in Australia--Charles Lamb\'s Sonnet--Some Old Proverbs--The Test of Duty--The Dying Soldier--Humble Earnings--\'the old folks at home\' --a Pauline phrase--cross-grained creatures--a touch of nature--two kinds of sons--the brand of cain--the effect of home training--William Wilberforce\'s sons--a right ambition--alien proprietorship--a condition of things not lasting--German and English peoples--home and its central fires--two kinds of citizenship--the sacred heritage of family life--an old english proverb--man\'s and woman\'s part in home-building--the destruction of a perfect ideal--Oscar Wilde--the old log fire--musings of memory--the days of unleavoned bread--pictures in the fire--the lid of a tin kettle--James Watts\' inspiration--\'on the past they stream\'--the alter-hearth of home
Home-Making and Home-Management
\'Those lights of home\" --The Mecca of the heart-- The weal or woe of the house-- The true basis of home-life--A one needful presence--For the children\'s sake-- A humiliating admission — The pleasantest place in the house — An eyesore anywhere — Dining-room walls — A bright background — What the best authorities favor — Dining-room furnishings — The place for a mirror — Small articles and pictures — Silver wire versus woollen cord — Desirable ornaments — Buffet and silver — A lack that is felt — Knick-knacks- Chairs — Why children are ill-mannered — The advantages of a sitting-room—One lady\'s habit — Drawing-rooms and parlors — How to furnish a sitting-room — The \"little things\" — Elevation of domestic service — Over taxed women-- A grave error — What parlor carpets do — Strong charges — \" Too good to be used \" — Master of the house — Shaker independence — Not slaves to inanimate things — At what they marvel — Their religious principle — The origin of carpets — For what first used — \" If\" — Woman should be consulted — Good floors — Old time flower-bed designs — Cheap carpets — How corners are kept clean — The enemy of weak lungs — How to sweep a carpet — A radical doctrine — The adornment of windows — Objections to certain kinds of draperies — The secret of success with curtains — Flowers in the window — An objection to window gardens . Ferneries — A window conservatory — How made — A necessity of all windows — A beautiful transparency — True method of cleaning windows — Wire-screens — The mistake of house furnishers — Costly things not always the most desirable — The error of choosing hastily — What to buy — Mantle decorations — The folly of overcrowding — In regard to books — The Dorrowing visitor — A folding screen — Old furniture re-covered — Preferred materials — A mantle-piece border — Fire-place screen — Some uses of silesia — Time wasted — Work-basket curiosities — A discouraging sight — An evil genius in the home — Temperance in sewing — The pleasure of work — What is weaved into its warp and woof — The veneering style in sewing — A much abused trade — Art needle-work.
The Baby in the Home
Reflections of the father — His misgivings — A familiar domestic scene — The mother\'s meditations — A miniature of all biography — Entertaining an angel unawares — Precocious and gifted children — Where parents live again — A curious incident — Multitudinous reflections — Thomas Starr King\'s death-bed — A spiritualistic theory — \" The patterns of things in heaven \" — Parents who transmitted their life-work — Darwin and Herbert Spencer as intellectual heirs — Parental responsibility — \" A mere child\" — A study of a baby — Samuel Johnson\'s advice — The parents, hand — Hartley Coleridge\'s childhood— His brother\'s account of it — Henry Crabb Robinson\'s diary — Precocity of Coleridge — Odes to him by his father, and by Wordsworth — His character and fate — A strange combination of qualities — The slave of the opium habit — The inheritor of his father\'s sins — An opium-eating father — A dram-drinking son — The fatal transmission of appetites — A bright career blighted — Expelled from England\'s oldest university — A hopeless drunkard — A lesson to fathers — The unwritten page of a child\'s life — A mistaken idea — Pharaoh\'s daughter — The child not to vegetate, but to live — An old proverb should be verified — Home influences — The government of temper — The baby at the home-school — Itself a teacher — Its chief lessons — The father\'s second birth— The quickness of children\'s mental and moral perceptions—The language of heaven — What science teaches— The heart language of the baby in the home
\"Upstairs, Down-Stairs, in My Lady\'s Chamber\"
The servant question— Conversations heard in homes — Characters given to servants-\"Goodness! How dreadful! \" --The consternation of a house-maid — The fate of a blue velvet mantilla— Reminiscences of Matilda Pancake and Lucretia Muffins — The thieving cook — Servants\' grievances — The proper example wanted — One\'s self-respect and that of others —Faithful servants the world\'s salvation — The doing of honest work — The ideas that foreign domestics bring with them — The faithful old servant — If \" things are not what they seem \" — The nervous effects of an untidy servant — Peculiarities of servants — \"Yes, m\'m\" — Left as well as right hands — Horrible moments — The habit of humming — What causes animosity — Times that try mistresses\' souls — An old Scotch proverb — \" Some servants \" — The good servant a master-piece of Christian civilization — Her position next that of teacher — Biographies of old servants — Training-schools — \"Butter-fingered girls\" — A forgetful cook and how cured — The hand of the servant, and what it does with the machinery of home.
Sports and Games for Ladies
Sports and games in the United States — Out-door exercises for women — An increasing demand for them — The list of out-door sports — Descriptions of each. Lawn Tennis, and how played — Essentially a field-sport for ladies — The best for enjoyable out-door exercise — Playing tennis. Archery — Recreations of the archery field — How to learn it — Exercise that develops the chest muscles — Shooting at a target — The trials of a novice — How to take aim — Rules for holding the bow and arrow. Croquet — A tell-tale game — Test of fine manners- Croquet unlike other games — Not played according to set rules — Why the game lost popularity —The place where croquet is played best — Experts at play —A great courting and flirting game — The points of difference in the game — A peculiarity of croquet — Three ways of arranging croquet hoops — Diagrams — Dimensions of grounds — Terms used in croquet.
Calisthenics—An exercise necessary for girls — The objection to the majority of games— A special benefit derived from systematic exercise — Calisthenics not necessary for one class of girls — The costume for calisthenics. Skating — The most graceful of sports — The sociability of a popular skating lake — Advantages to health — Why girls should skate— The essentials for the full enjoyment of skating — Confidence essential in skating —The first lesson — The sensation of standing on an edge — To balance one\'s self — The fundamental basis of all efforts on skates — The fear that causes a fall —Lean on the outer edge — Fancy skating — A pretty sight — Skating on rollers — The difference in the two methods — What can be done on roller skates. Walking — A neglected exercise — How to become a good walker — The difference between city promenading and walking — The kind of shoes to wear — \" A ten-mile morning constitutional \" — Ladies\' walking parties — What women are capable of in the way of walking — English country ladies — Locomotion of the city belle — Something to be ashamed of — Certain sanitary rules about walking. — Walking a natural acquirement — The benefits derived from Walking — Care of the feet essential — Frequent change of shoes necessary — A pedestrian\'s advice — Where and how long walks should be taken — Haste to be avoided — Something not to be forgotten.
Bathing and Swimming. — The art of swimming a valuable essential to good health — Increasing popularity of swimming — Rules for healthy sea-bathing — When to bathe — When not to do so — When to leave the water — Cramps — How to swim — Presence of mind the chief requisite — When the art is an impossible one to attain — The motion of the limbs in swimming — How to act under a painful circumstance — The philosophy of breathing the true secret of learning to swim. Rowing — The chances of accidents — No girl should go out alone unless a swimmer — The action of dipping, pulling, lifting and pushing the oar — Make haste slowly-- Feathering the oar — The muscles of the wrist. Chess — A scientific in-door recreation — An easy game to learn — A mental rest, not a mathematical study — Books of instructions — Their characteristics — Nerve and strategic skill required, not book knowledge — Chess analysis — Hints to beginners — Directions.
The Library in the Home
The completeness of home-life — The thing wanting in homes — St. Paul an intellectual architect — A heathen philosopher\'s amazement — Unfinished characters — A want in most homes — The effect of flowers — The color cure— In what life consists — Plato\'s teachings — Tastes in books — The Bishop of Winchester\'s opinions — Book-borrowers — A vulgar habit — Some annotators — An intellectual small-pox —Scribblers and note-takers — A good plan — The beginnings of a library-General culture versus special knowledge — Dickens and Thackeray — Some other authors — Archbishop Trench\'s opinion — A guiding principle — Different mental foods — Poetry — Its rank and influence — Indiscriminate reading — Charles Kingsley — Early scepticism— Destructive influences — Wordsworth\'s \" excursion \" — What poetry is — Two studies — Shakespeare\'s and Milton\'s lives — What is invaluable in a library — Some good essays — What boys like — Bulwer Lytton\'s advice — Dickens\' child-history — \" If\" — Mrs. Barbauld\'s poem — General Wolfe\'s declaration — Thomas Edward — The Scotch naturalist — The books one should read — A good motto.
Choice of Occupation
Doing nothing —The effect of continued idleness — Overworked people — God\'s noble-man — An important act — Mistakes of fathers — The case of the minister — The unhappy man — A great minister — Michael Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci — \"A rolling stone \" — Pleasure in work — The efforts of children — The \" well done \" — Mistakes in choosing work — A typical picture — A stalwart cook — Girls without talent — A chance for genius — What some men would make—\" The father of the man \" — Some great men — Franklin as a boy — Force of character — \" Know thyself\" — Why Solomon doubted — Co-operation — Sowing and reaping — Everyman\'s duty — \"The night cometh\" — A noble ambition — Good old Bible words-
In the Sick Room
Were life-laws obeyed — Dr. Richardson\'s observations — Natural death — Every house an occasional hospital — A vital necessity — Women interested — Lectures on a baby — A good hand-book — Health essentials — Ventilation — Laws for the sick-room — Infectious diseases — Personal cleanliness — A slow poison — A great danger — Sponging — Beds and bedding — Relief in time of weakness — Miss Nightingale\'s sayings — Blankets and comfortables — Dr. Burdette on cottage hospitals — The draw-sheet — Pure air and suitable food — Irritability of brain — Why sleep is important — The matter of noise — A calm manner — The faculty of observation — Objectionable habits in the sick-room — Horrible monotony — An old-fashioned notion — A weight on any one--The baby in the sick-room — Some errors of the past — The food cure — Dr. Edward Smith\'s book — An essential to health- Starved in the midst of plenty — A great comfort — What beef-tea is — Some mistakes about nourishment — Pavy\'s rules — The appearance of things — Duties to one\'s self — Powers called into play in sickness — \" Having done all, to stand \" — Tallies of diet — Appetites of convalescents — Beef-essence and tea — Broths and gruels — Some dainty dishes for the sick.
The Physican in the Home
Knowledge of medicine — Fits and starts in health-taking — Doctors and medicines are luxuries — Like unto the curfew bell — The village doctor — The ideal parish — \" Cheer but not inebriate \" — The cemetery of Healthytown — The good old parson — Farmer Freshtwig — The stories of the doctor and the undertaker — \" Wash and be clean \"--A result of unnatural training — \" Too tired to be clean \" — The greatest preservatives of health — A fact established — How to take a bath — Cold feet — Chewing and bolting food — A fruitful cause of dyspepsia — What to keep in the house — Exercise — A folly — Where stimulants are useful — Fresh air opponents — A deceitful prophet — A disagreeable mission — Ugly mouths — Teeth from the dentist — Pomatum and bear\'s grease — \" Lastly, gentle reader \"
Medicinal and Hygienic Recipes
Bruises — Cramps — Headaches — Lumbago — Measles — Diarrhoea — Poison — Stings — Toothache — Whooping-cough — Bronchitis — Erysipelas — Jaundice — How to give chloroform — Evil effects of ice-water — Cold tea — To purify rooms after sickness — To make pepsin — A powerful antidote — How to treat a cold — Sick stomach — Soda for burns — Acid burns — Insects in the ear — The night air superstition — Advice to dyspeptics— Alcohol and dyspepsia — Disinfectants — Mental headache — Sprained ankle — Inflamed eyes — Early rising — Preventive against sea-sickness — In drowning cases — The airing of beds — Advice with reason — Various remedies— Sleep— Perfect ventilation — Household diet — Ventilation of cellars — Cure for earache — The prevention of sunstroke — Worth knowing and remembering — Cure for a felon — Sticking-plaster — Diphtheria and sore throat — Stiffness and aching limbs — The lemon — Fasting — Neuralgia and sciatica — Catarrh — Coughing — Croup — Other remedies
Economy in the Home
The dollar saved — Mistaken ideas — The \" penny wise and pound foolish \" — Unwise acts — Not an easy habit to acquire — \" The rainy day \" — Pride which shrinks — Ten cents a day — The constant droppings — A suggestive table — Rothschild\'s income — The foundation principle in economy — One\'s health and generous living — Utilizing remainders — Clothing the body — Bargaining house-keepers — Poor Moses in the \" Vicar of Wakefield \"
Life at Home
The first sure symptom of a mind in health — The disturbing element — The undoing of peace and happiness — The deadly nightshade — The unsafe element — Abnormal tendencies — The secret of a happy home — The Jacobs and Esaus — The Cinderella in the home — The innate narrowness of parents — Unkindness to children — Petting and spoiling — Pigmy lords — A miniature republic — The sensitive spot — Diversities of gifts in children — Memories of birthdays — Rebekah a bad mother — A piteous spectacle — Love sweetens everything — The reformation within that makes the real home.
Household Ornamentation
Antimacassars — Work-baskets — Aprons — Wall-baskets — Silk curtain bands — Perfume sachets — To crystallize grasses — To press flowers — Hanging-baskets — Design for screens — The hanging of pictures — The question of fireboards — The ubiquitous Japanese fan— Sachets — Economical mats — Velvet painting — Covers for tables and chairs — Pin-cushions and carriage rugs — Pretty tidies — To use ferns — The place for thermometers — Case for overshoes — Salad oil bottles for vases — Curtains — Waste-paper baskets — Easels — Watch and jev/ehy cases — Dados of colored matting — Zephyr balls — The Kensington work — A pretty mat — Skeleton leaves — Tapestry work — Basil leather work— Cabinets — Cheap materials for portieres — Seaweed — Cut work — A coverlet wrought by Mary, Queen of Scots — The- Kensington stitch — A clothes bag — Sewing buttons on — How to make netting — Fire-place curtains — Pen-wipers and scrap-bags — Ottoman and chair covers — Lace albums — Pretty contrivances for bed-rooms — Boxes and trunks
Floriculture and Horticulture
The taste for the beautiful — The influence of flowers — \" The wilderness to blossom \" — The love of flowers — Matthew Arnold\'s expression — As aids to memory — Ophelia\'s emblems of the feelings of the heart — The \" sweet gardening toil \" — There are no flowers--The garden of Eden — \" Nothing but leaves \" — General directions for flower growing — Roses — Their \' training and their enemies — A window plant — Watering window plants and window gardening— Geraniums — How to preserve flowers in sand — Repotting plants — The Catalonian jessamine — A water bouquet — A flower-bed — Seasonable hints — Plants at rest— Flower raising — English ivy — To keep cut flowers fresh — Tuberoses — Fancy fern-pans — Fuchsias — How to set grafts — The cause of buds blasting — To grow hyacinths in water and in moss — Propagating plants — Begonias — Camellia japonica — Preserving autumn leaves — Rockeries and grottos — The preservation of bouquets — To transplant mignonette — Planting flower seeds — Training tomato plants — How the Japanese restore faded flowers —Hyacinths— Tulips, etc
The Laundry
To wash well — Some hints to housekeepers — Soaking clothes overnight — Washing directions— Washing and bleaching flannels — Sprinkling clothes — Colored wool fabrics — To wash black goods — Light-colored cashmeres — Removing spots — How to wash blankets, light-colored calicoes, delicate muslins, camoiics, silk handkerchiefs and stockings, white cashmeres, and lace curtains — The virtues of borax — To remove mildew — To do up and renovate black silk—Putting away clothes — To remove stains from linen — Various recipes — Cleaning cloth garments — Removing fruit-stains — To bleach cotton — Some recipes for dyeing — To revive kid-gloves — Bleaching process — Starch — The care of towels — Stains, etc.
The Toilet
A trite old saying — The beauty worthy a name — A tell-tale feature--A good complexion — Madame Recamier — Her strongest point — A cosmetic for the face — To be handsome — To remove wrinkles — Directions for painting wrinkles out of the face — A nice preparation for chapped hands — A harmless cosmetic — To disperse freckles — A pleasant perfume — Buttermilk as a cosmetic — Toilet soap —A good method for removing superfluous hair — To remove flesh-worms — Crimping hair — A mouth wash — Preservation of the teeth — Some bad habits — To remove pimples — Care of the hands — To clear the complexion — To reduce the flesh — A harmless dye
Company in the Home
The choice of friends — What true friendship is — Constant familiarity— With whom not to be intimate — The reminiscences of silent hours — Our neighbors— The household a sheepfold — Scabby and healthful sheep — \"Avoid bad company\" — Mischief-making persons — Home-rulers — Tittle-tattle — Gossips — Hackneyed expressions — The tragic and melodramatic incidents in the village circle — \"I always said so\" — The tell -tale — Victims and critics — The enemies of peaceful homes — Untimely and unprofitable visitors — The distinguishing trait of home-life — Altered manners of friends — Malevolent people — A rack of self-torture — Miss Tattle — Mr. Teller — Underground misunderstandings — Dr. Griswold and Thackeray — \" Do I look like a snob ? \" — The natural curiosity of the idle — Strong measures against gossips — Busy people — Mrs. Fuss and Miss Feathers--An untimely visit— Self-protection — A compliment worth having — To make friends is to be friendly — The voice a tremendous force — Casting pearls before swine — When company is oppressive — Home should not be a tavern or a club — The old proverb— A home where pleasant people gather.
Home Memories
I remember\" — The earliest scenes — Cowper\'s description of his mother\'s picture -The Madonna — The dearest of all memories — \"Dear kindly faces\" The nurse\'s arms — Her influence in the home — Familiar objects-- The preserve- closet and the smacking of lips — The garden and garden-gate — Memories of sisters and brothers — Carlo\'s bark and Dobbins\' trot — In the twilight hour — The mysteries of the fire — An element the Persians worshipped — What fire suggests — Fireside musings — The \" Dies Irse \" — The Yule log when the fire is out — The wanderer\'s return — Stories around the fireside — Grandma\'s reminiscences — \" Burn brightly, winter fire\" — \" Home, Sweet Home,\" by John Howard Payne, a world-famous song — The poet\'s own fireside (see frontispiece) — Where he first heard the air — The song written for an opera — Where written — Facts about Payne\'s life — His return to New York — His words at a banquet — An orphan and exile — \"A name to live \" — A story in this connection — His song a magic \'sesame \" which opens all hearts.
Pets in the Household
\" Poor relations \"-- The dog and the horse familiar family friends-- The reasoning powers of some dogs-- De Long\'s mistake in killing the dogs with his party-- Power of dogs to find food through scent-- Brute instinct like supernatural revelation-- Seven little kittens-- Family conference-- Six cats to die-- Remarkable instinct of the deserted animals-- Ishmaels without Hagar-- The miseries of the feline Arabs-- A ghastly travelling party of three-- Eight miles over a strange road-- A dog\'s affection-- No magnanimity in cats-- The biography of dogs-- The cat likened unto Jacob as a supplanter-- Tray and Tabitha- Kittens and parrots-- Canary birds-- Rabbits-- Guinea-pigs and ravens-- The hand that feeds the animals-- Two pets enough-- The dog first in rank-- Faithful and affectionate-- The vacant kennel-- The ancient Athenians and dogs-- The grief of dogs-- The dog \" one of us\"-- The training and education of dogs-- The first thing to be taught-- The canine gourmand-- Mercy and manners-- Care of canaries, parrots and mocking-birds-- How to feed and care for them-- Some diseases to which they succumb.
The Mother in the Home
Typical mother-- Test of character-- Self-denial and tact-- A pen-picture of an ideal woman-- How she met poverty, change and rebellion-- Occupation for her children-- Friend and counsellor-- Fortunate children-- Hard work and happiness--Mending and painting a fence--Out-dor improvements--Helping hands--The spirit of improvement--Plans and surprises--Making home beautiful--An eye-sore--Amateur workers--A Rockery--Planting an arbor and hiding a poultry-yard--Pecuniary independence--A Mother\'s Reward--Her Life-work and influence--A Gracious boon--Such a mother the rarest possession.
Duty of Parents to Children
A codicil to the fifth commandment--Martyrs among children--The cruelty of injustice--The memory of a wrong-- The child-life of the Saviour --What a theme-- His commandment to children-- Reaping what is sown--An obnoxious vice-- The saddest of retrospects-- Ignorance of the laws of life-- Unfortunate heritages-- The sins of the fathers-- Rights of children-- Early and heedless marriages--Young and over-burdened mothers-- Commonplace people-- What every child is entitled to-- A celebrated divine\'s singular conclusion-- Motherhood unrespected-- The inhumanity of man-- An unhappy and discordant man-- Why he was such-- The crime of infanticide-- The sins of ignorance --A prophecy regarding the nation.
Death in the Home
Jeremy Taylor\'s views of death-- A tranquil sleep-- The selfishness of the living-- Old heathens an example to Christians-- Death in the Home-- Rigid English ceremonies-- Gloomy views of death-- Inconsistencies of Christians-- Lord Byron\'s saying-- The dead near us-- A victory over human weakness-- To meet again-- Such a hope rational-- Human affections more than animal weaknesses-- Outward observances of death-- Anniversaries of deaths-- Pessimists and moral dyspeptics--\" May-be\'s of the hereafter \" -- The home minaret touching the blue sky--\" Until \' mamma \' comes home \"
Home Architecture
Noble ambition--To own a home-- The great question-- A home in fact-- Locality and drainage-- Country and suburban homes-- Sydney Smith on Salisbury Plain-- \" Four miles from a lemon\"-- Mistakes of builders-- Inconvenient localities-- Antagonistic possibilities-- External and internal arrangements-- Where \" every prospect pleases\"-- Why St. Simon Stylites lived on a pillar-- Errors in house-building-- A vast deal of discomfort-- Innumerable doors-- A feeling they produce-- Staircases and pantries-- A question of knobs and hinges-- A woman\'s knowledge of closets-- Storage-room with pegs and shelves-- Life-saving problems-- Fire-proof houses-- Heating facilities-- Health before ornament-- Designs for house architecture-- Interior arrangements of homes.
The Kitchen in the Home
What it should be-- Brillat-Savarin--The kitchen In old Roman houses-- How some housekeepers neglect kitchens-- The centre warmth of home-- American stomachs-- How business men eat-- Druggists in demand-- The diet of some men and women-- Ills the doctor cannot remedy-- The art required to cook-- Alfred the Great and the cakes-- Attention and consciousness of attention required to cook Leaden bread-- The Englishman in China-- The disguising power of gravy and sauces-- The rule of the Athenian\' philosopher-- Socrates\' preferences-- King George the Third and apple dumplings-- The beggar and George the Fourth-- The wedding breakfast of Charles the Sixth-- The diet of Friar Tuck and the \" gentle hermit of the dale \"-- The foods of different countries-- Sir John Franklin and the Esquimau lad-- The simplest of all food-- The frying pan and other cooking utensils-- Talleyrand and the fat Bishop-- The American kitchen-- German and English cookery-- The best teacher to have in the kitchen.
Cookery Recipes
Soups - Fish-- Meats--Poultry and Game-- Sauces and Gravies--Vegetables--Eggs, Omelets, etc., Salads--Pies--Puddings--Creams, Jellies, Custards, etc., Preserves, Canned Fruits, etc., Pickles and Catsups--Bread and Breakfast Cakes-- Cakes and Icings--Coffees, Teas and Beverages--Butter, Milk, Cheese, etc.
Social Forms
Cards of Compliment--Invitation to a Wedding--Invitation to a Reception--Admission Card Formula--Reception Card--Announcement of Marriage--Marriage Anniversaries.
Miscellaneous Household Recipes
Odds and Ends For Household Use. It is a good plan for a housekeeper to make a weekly visit to every part of her dwelling from garret to cellar. How To Clean Soapsuds--To Clean a Carpet.--To Clean Knives with Expedition and Ease--To Preserve Herbs--To Clean Glass--To Remove Paint-stains from Glass Windows--To Sweeten Old Lard--To Take Marks Off of Varnished Furniture--What Makes a Bushel--Household Measures--To Keep Seeds from the Depredations of Mice--To Prevent Moths in Carpets--To Keep Lemons Fresh--To Clean Sea-Shells.--Keeping Meat Fresh in Hot Weather--To Make Hens Lay in Winter--Soft Soap [excellent recipe), --To Make Hard Soap--To remove the white spots which often seriously injure the appearance of a dining or other table, Varnished paints, window-panes and mirrors,--To remove grease from carpets,--washing oil-cloths,--To polish brass--The government recipe for cleaning brass--to clean Rusted steel--to clean cane-seated chairs.--A good poison for house-flies--Marble of any kind--Fly spots--In cleaning furniture--To whiten walls,--Soot falling on the carpet--How to clean a brass tea kettle--To restore old ivory to its original color--cleaning decanters,--To render pencil marks indelible--To remove grease from marble --For silvering glass globes, etc.--
Cements, Pastes, etc--Dextrine, or ** British gum,\" --Cement for Labels.--Cement for Jars and Bottles--Mucilage of Gum Arabic--To Cement Wood to Glass--Rubber Cement--Cement for Leather and Cloth.--A good cement for mending broken crockery---To Obtain Paste for Paper--China and Glass Cement--Milk Cement--Cement for an Aquarium that will not Crack-- To Take Grease from Boards--The lustre of morocco leather is restored by varnishing with white of egg.-How TO Treat Old Mirrors.--The Best Duster--Putting up Curtains.--How To Color a Pine Floor where Rugs are to be Used--How TO Use Lamps--To prevent lamp-chimneys and glassware from cracking--To prevent silverware from tarnishing--To prevent iron from rusting,--To Perfume Note-paper, etc--How to Drive Nails.--Furniture Polish (1).--Furniture Polish (2). --To Clean Silver.--Cleaning Kettles.--A Forgotten Color. --To Mend Broken Ivory--The Best Ink. Stains from varnished furniture.--To Clean Coral--Enamelling on Wood. --For Cleaning Silver or silver-plated ware, How to Mend China.--To Set a Color. --To Cleanse Barrels. --Recipe for Making Candles. --Ink for Zinc Labels. --To Black a Brick Hearth. --To Cut Glass Jars. --To Clean Furniture. Removing ink-stains from white fabrics.--The Parisian method of cleaning black silk. --To Renovate Black Cashmere. --To remove iron-rust from linen.
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