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.

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    the hollow of a decayed and aching tooth, destroys the nerve, and consequently removes the pain. Some people rub it behind the ears that it may blister, and by that means give relief. Excellent Blacking. Take eight ounces of ivory black, six ounces of treacle, six table-spoonsful of sweet oil, and three of oil of vitriol 3 mix the above ingredients well together with a quart of vinegar, and bottle it: in a week’s time, it will be fit for use. To obviate the smells of privies, %c. Water in which lime has been slacked, must be mixed with a ley of ashes, or soapy water that has been used in washing, and then thrown into the sink of the privy, it will destroy the offensive smell. By these means, for the value of a few pence, any collection of filth whatever may be neutralized. For the night-chair of sick persons, put within the vessel half a pound of quicklime, half an ounce of powdered sal-ammoniac, and one pint of water ; this will prevent any disagreeable smell. To dye silk a fair blue. Take white silk, and soak it in water, then hav- ing wrung the water out, add eight ounces of woad, four ounces of indigo, and one ounce of alum; then gently warm and dissolve them in the water, after which dip your materials till the colour has taken. To clean calico furniture, when taken down for the summer. f irst shake off the loose dirt, and slightly brush the article with a small long-haired furniture brush ;