The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years, 2nd ed. / A work published by the order of the French minister of the interior, on the report of the Board of arts and manufactures

THE ART OF PRESERVING, &c. &c. &c.
THE ART OF PRESERVING ALL KINDS OF Animal and Vegetable Substances FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
A WORK PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE FRENCH MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR , On the Report of the Board of Arts and Manufactures, BY M. APPERT.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY, BOOKSELLERS TO THE HON. EAST-INDIA COMPANY, LEADENHALL STREET.
1812.
Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street.
Neele sc. Strand
London Published 25 th . Feb y . 1811 by Black & C o . Leadenhall Str.
In an advertisement prefixed to the pamphlet, of which the following sheets are a translation, the author publishes his address: “ Quai Napoléon, au coin de la rue de la Colombe, No. 4, dans la Cité, à Paris ;” and offers for sale there, an assortment of provisions, preserved by the process, of which an account is here communicated to the public. As the book itself is a recommendation of the author’s own goods, it has been thought proper to add to his account of his process, a translation of the authorities and testimonies by which his own statements are authenticated; notwithstanding the repetitions which are in consequence admitted. The recommendation of the process by the French Minister immediately follows. The more elaborate Report of the Paris Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, will be found at the end of the work.
It is needless to anticipate the author’s display of the advantages which must flow from a simple and unexpensive process of keeping fresh articles of animal and vegetable food. If this can be effected for only one year , that is, from the season of produce through the seasons of scarcity; if no other articles, for instance, than eggs, cream, and vegetables, can be preserved in their full flavour and excellence during a long winter, there is not a mistress of a family in the kingdom, rich enough to lay by a stock of those articles, and not too rich to despise the economy of a family, who will not find herself benefitted by the perusal of the small work here put within her reach; and there is no reason to suspect the correctness of this part of the author’s statements. This, however, is but one of the more obvious benefits of his process; and if thus much be ascertained, then an interminable prospect of resources is opened, which the State, still more than the individual, will be called upon to employ.