Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. The art of trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. The branches of pastry and confectionary; a complete family physician; instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.

  • Hammond, Elizabeth.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : containing approved directions for purchasing, preserving and cooking meat, fish, poultry, game, &c. The art of trussing and carving: preparing soups, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. The branches of pastry and confectionary; a complete family physician; instructions to servants for the best methods of performing their various duties. The art of making British wines, brewing, baking, &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    is stuck in the hole so prepared. Then set it on fire, and instantly place the hive over it, observing to throw the earth up all round, to prevent the smoke from escaping. In fifteen or twenty minutes, the bees will be destroyed. The valuable creatures thus destroyed may, how- ever, be preserved, by using boxes instead of hives; by which method two boxes of honey may be taken during the summer (from one colony), each weigh- ing forty pounds, and yet a sufficient supply be left for the winter support of the bees in this manner preserved from destruction. Consequently it appears that this plan combines humanity with great profit, to which motives we may add the pleasure of seeing them at work, and also the trouble which is saved during the swarming time. The bees thus secured, are also much more effec- tually screened from wet and cold, from mice, and other vermin. The boxes should be made of deal, which, from its spongy nature, sucks up the breath of the bees sooner than a more solid wood would do. Yellow Dram deal, well seasoned, is the best j and an oc- tagon form is preferable to a square. The boxes should be ten inches in depth, and fourteen in breadth, with a small glass Avindow behind, Avith a thin deal cover on brass hinges, and a button to shut it Avith. It Avill be of material service, Avhen you intend to keep bees, to plant a great number of gooseberry and currant trees, on the blossom of Avhich they will find a large quantity of food. If bees are suifered to continue in one hh^e more than four years, they will degenerate both in num- bers and strength.