INDEX.

Accidents and antidotes, [366].
Acids, how to be kept, [108].
Address of the author to readers, [15].
Aged, care of the, [301].
Air-cells, number in human lungs, [153].
Alcoholic drinks, [100];
the microscope, [228].
Alcoholic poisoning, antidote for, [368].
Almond and cocoa-nut cake, [86].
Amusements and social duties, [440], et seq.
Angry tones avoidable, [277].
Antidotes for some poisons, [367].
Apple and bread dumplings, [79].
Apple-bread, [68].
Apple-custard, [68].
Apple-omelet, to make an, [63].
Apple-pie, [76].
Apple-sauce, [56].
Apple-tarts, spiced, [81].
Apple-trees, to preserve from insects, [360].
Apple-ice, [97].
Apple-jelly, [98].
Apple lemon-pudding, [97].
Apple-snow, [98].
Apples, to preserve, [92].
Apportionment of time, proper, [283].
Arrow-root, how purchased and kept, [105].
Arsenic, antidote for, [368].
Asparagus, how to cook, [63];
how dished, [111].
Associated charities, a system of, [387].
Attic story of a house, plan for, [144].
Bacon, the fat of good, [21].
Baked fish, [59].
Baked meats. See Roasts, [46].
Basement, plan for a, [147].
Basket-ware for kitchen, [347].
Baskets for flowers, [196];
and fruits, [333].
Bath, use and misuse of the, [240].
Baudeloque, M., on foul air, [158].
Beautifying a home, [192], et seq.
Beds, arranging, [341].
Beef, selection of, [18];
different cuts of, [19];
economy in purchase of, [19];
stew, [30];
soups, [37];
hash, [40];
boiled, [43];
roast, [46];
pot-pie of, [47];
pie of cold, [48];
frizzled, [51].
Beef-tea, [102].
Beef’s-gall, to keep, [116].
Beefsteak, broiled, [50].
Bees, care of, [312].
Beets, how to cook, [61].
Biliousness, cause of, [217].
Bill of fare four weeks ahead, [125].
Bird’snest pudding, [78].
Biscuits—soda, yeast, potato, [69];
of sour milk and flour, [71].
Blackberry jam, [93].
Blanc-mange, [98];
of wheat flour, [97].
Bleeding from the lungs, throat, etc., [369].
Blood, the human, [150], et seq.
Body, composition of the human, [214].
Boiled fish, [59].
Boiled meats—to cook tough beef, ham, beef, fowls, [43];
a leg or shoulder of veal, mutton, or lamb, calf’s liver and sweet-breads, kidneys, pillau, smoked tongues, corned beef, [44];
partridges or pigeons, ducks, turkeys, [45].
Bologna sausages, to make, [26].
Bones, composition of, [243];
laws of health for the, [454].
Borax, for washing, [112].
Brain and nerves, [203].
Brain, laws of health for the, [457].
Brandy peaches, [91].
Bread, remarks regarding family, [64];
fine flour, [66];
middlings, or unbolted flour, raised with water only, [67];
rye and indian, third, rye, Oat-meal, pumpkin and apple, corn-meal, [68];
sweet rolls of corn-meal, soda biscuit, yeast biscuit, potato biscuit, buns, [69];
how to keep, [108].
Bread and apple dumplings, [79].
Bread and fruit pudding, [77].
Bread omelet, to make, [63].
Bread-crumbs and meat hash, [40].
Bread pudding, stale, [78];
for invalids, [81].
Breakfast dishes, [70]-73.
Breakfast-rooms, care of, [335].
Breathing, the action in, [245].
Breeding of animals, [307].
Brewer, Professor, of Yale College, on ventilation, [169].
Brine or pickle for beef, pork, etc., [25].
Broccoli, to pickle, [55].
Broiled fish, [59].
Broiled mutton or lamb chops, beefsteak, fresh pork, ham, sweet-breads, veal, pork relish, [50].
Broiled oysters, [58].
Bruises, remedies for, [366].
Brûlure, or fire-blight, [360].
Buckwheat, how produced and kept, [105].
Buckwheat cakes, [73].
Budding and grafting, [353].
Buns, to make, [69].
Burns, remedies for, [366].
Butler, Fanny Kemble, on theatre-going, [444].
Butter, to keep, [106]; in hot weather, [123].
Butternut catsup, [56].
Cabbage, fine, pickled, [54].
Cabbage and cauliflower, to cook, [62].
Cake, general directions for making, [85];
one, two, three, four cake; chocolate, jelly, orange, almond, and cocoa-nut, [86];
pound-cake, plain-cake, fruit, huckleberry, gold and silver, rich sponge-cake, [87];
plain sponge-cake, gingerbread, fried cakes, cookies, etc., [88];
plain loaf-cake, rich loaf-cake, dough-cake, icing for cake, [89];
how to keep, [108].
Calf’s-foot, to cleanse, [23];
jelly, [44], [92];
to cook, [44].
Calf’s head and feet, to cleanse, [23];
soup, [38];
to cook, [48].
Calf’s liver and sweet-breads, to cook, [44].
Candied fruits, [99].
Candles, to make, [328].
Canker-worm, to check, [360].
Canned fruits, [91].
Capers, sauce of, mock, [57].
Capitol, ventilation and warming of the, [165].
Carbonaceous food, [217].
Carbonic acid, [153].
Card-playing as an amusement, [444].
Care of meats, [18], [22];
of the aged, [301];
of domestic animals, [305];
of the sick, [313];
of servants, [424].
Carpets, selection of, [330];
cutting and fitting, [330].
Carrots, how to cook, [61].
Carving, directions for, [338].
Castle-building, [296].
Catholic priests, care for servants, [438].
Catsup, walnut or butternut, [56];
tomato, [57].
Cauliflower, to pickle, [55];
to cook, [62].
Celery, to prepare, [62].
Cell-life, [200];
curious facts, [201];
important relations to health, [202].
Cellar, care of a, [348].
Cement, a good, [122].
Chairs, a use for old, [195].
Chambers and bedrooms, care of, [339].
Character, protection to, [410].
Charities, associated, [387], et seq.
Charlotte russe, [96].
Cheese, how to keep, [108].
Cheese of veal, [51].
Cherries, to preserve, [93].
Cherry-pie, [79].
Chickens, etc., stew, [31];
roast, [47];
pot-pie and rice-pie, [48].
Chicken salad, [57], [96].
Children talking to parents, [264], et seq.;
the bath for, [241];
training the manners of, [269], et seq.
See, also, Young Children.
Chimney, a central, [176].
Chimneys, [189], et seq.
Chinese, respect for age, [304].
Chocolate, as a beverage, [101].
Chocolate-cake, [86].
Cholera, in the shade, [256].
Chowder, clam, [59].
Cider and toast, [101].
Circus-riding, about, [441].
Citron melons, to preserve, [93].
Clam soup, [37];
chowder, [59].
Clarify sugar, to, [99].
Clark, Dr. James, on physical education of children, [401].
Cleaning furniture, [332].
Cleanliness, [235], et seq.;
for animals, [306].
Clothing, [243], et seq.;
selection of family, [129].
Cloths, table, [109].
Coal, anthracite and bituminous, [325].
Coal mines, principle of ventilating, [168].
Cocoa, to make, [100].
Cocoa-nut pudding (plain), [78];
cake, [86].
Codfish, a relish, [51];
where to keep, [108].
Coffee, fish-skin for, [100];
cream for, [101];
to purchase, [107];
for children, [230];
as a beverage, [231].
Cold-meat hash, [39];
nice way of cooking, [41].
Colds, treatment of, [316].
Combe on the management of infants, [392].
Comfort for a discouraged housekeeper, [459].
Company, reception of, [333].
Conductors of heat, [164].
Constipation, cure for (in note), [315].
Convection, a principle of heat, [164].
Cookies, [88].
Cook-stove, to roast in, [46].
Cooking-stoves and ranges, [182], et seq.
Cool, how to keep, [122].
Corn (green) soup, [36];
pudding, [81].
Corn-cake, sachem’s head, [73].
Corn-meal bread, [68];
sweet rolls of, [69];
pop-overs, [76];
for breakfast and supper, [70].
Corned-beef hash, [41];
boiled, [44].
Corrosive sublimate, antidote for, [368].
Cottage cheese, fine, [73].
Cows, care of, [309].
Crab-apple marmalade and jelly. See Quince Marmalade.
Cracked wheat, [71];
how purchased and kept, [105].
Cracker plum-pudding, [82].
Cranberry, [97];
sauce, [56].
Creaking hinges, to stop, [123].
Cream for coffee and tea, [101].
Cream tartar, beverage, [102].
Crockery for a kitchen, [346].
Crumpets, royal, [72].
Cucumbers, pickled, [53];
convenient way to pickle, [54];
to prepare, [62];
prepared for table, [110].
Curculio, the, in plum-trees, [360].
Curd pudding, English, [77].
Currant and raspberry pie, [79].
Currant jelly, [94];
whisk, [96].
Currants, to preserve, [93];
for cake, [107];
raised in a wet soil, [358].
Custard, plain, [77].
Cuts, remedies for, [366].
Cutting dresses, hints on, [361].
Dancing as an amusement, [441].
Death-rates, average of, [162], [163].
Decay, results of animal or vegetable, [162].
Dessert of rice and fruit, [80].
Desserts and evening parties, [95].
Diaphragm, the human, [246].
Digestion of food, [217].
Digestive organs, the, [219];
the laws of health for, [455].
Dining-rooms, care of, [335].
Discouraged housekeeper, comfort for, [459].
Domestic amusements and social duties, [440], et seq.
Domestic animals, care of, [305], et seq.
Domestic exercise, [208], et seq.
Domestic manners, [260], et seq.
Domestic service a great problem, [429].
Domestics’ rooms, [342].
Dormer-windows, [176].
Dough-cake, [89].
Doughnuts, [88].
Drawn butter, [110];
sauce, [56].
Dress appropriate to servants, [431].
Dress—fashion ruinous to health, [243].
Dressing a young girl, proper mode of, [251].
Drinks, etc., for the sick, [100].
Drop-cakes of fine wheat or rye, [72].
Drowning, in cases of, [367].
Ducks, to boil, [45].
Dumplings of bread and apples, [79].
Dwelling, construction of a family, [127];
ornamentation of furniture of, [128].
Early rising, [254];
recommended, [447].
Earth-closets, [145].
Eating too much, [214];
too fast, [222].
Economical breakfast-dish, [71].
Egg-plant, how to cook, [61].
Eggs, with meat-hash, [39];
omelet, [51];
with milk as sauce, [56];
modes of cooking, [63];
to preserve, [122].
Egg tea, egg coffee, and egg milk, [102].
English curd-pudding, [77].
Essences, how to be kept, [108].
Evening parties and desserts, [95].
Exercise indispensable to health, [211];
for animals, [307].
Expenses, family, [130].
Eyes, laws of health for the, [457].
Family attachments, [452].
Family religious training, [414], et seq.
Fasting, a remedy for sickness, [314].
Fault-finding, mistakes of, [432].
Fever, drink for a, [102].
Figs, where raised, [358].
Filberts, where raised, [358].
Fine-flour bread, [66].
Fire, in case of, [369].
Fire-blight in pear-trees, [360].
Fire-places, the advantages of open, [166].
Fires and lights, [324].
Fish, selection of, [22];
to salt down, [23];
directions for cooking, [58].
Fishing as a sport, [440].
Fitting dresses, hints on, [361].
Flannel shirts save washing, [112].
Flavoring powders, [33].
Floating island, [98].
Flour, how it should be kept, [104].
Flour puddings, flour and fruit puddings, [75];
a rich, [80].
Flower-seeds, planting, [350].
Flowers, appropriate for baskets, [197];
in a room, to cultivate, [197].
Fluids as food, [224].
Flummery, [96].
Folding, sprinkling, and ironing, [118].
Folding clothing, directions for, [342].
Food, on the conversion of, into nourishment, [214];
responsibility as to, in a family, [214];
on taking too much, [214];
proportion of nutritive elements in, [215];
on one kind of, for each meal, [217];
quantity of, to be graduated by exercise, [217];
on the quality of, [221];
stimulating, [221];
animal and vegetable, [221];
kinds of,most easily digested, [222];
injurious, from bad cooking, [222];
on eating too fast, [222];
on exercise, after taking, [223];
on hot and cold, [223];
highly concentrated, [224];
for the sick, [318].
Forewarn instead of find fault, [432].
Foul air, the evils of, [158], et seq.
Fowls, boiled, [43];
fricasseed, [43].
Fragile ware, to preserve, [122].
French cooking, the peculiar excellence of, [34].
French vegetable soup, [38].
Fresh-meat hash, [39].
Fricasseed fowl, [43].
Fried meats and relishes, [50].
Fried oysters, [58].
Fritters of oysters, [58].
Frizzled beef, [51].
Fruit, cultivation of, [357].
Fruit and bread-crumb pudding, [79].
Fruit and rice dessert, [80].
Fruit-cake, [87].
Fruit pudding, boiled, [77].
Frying, unhealthful mode of cooking, [50].
Fuel saved by cottage stove, [188].
Furnace-heat pernicious, [178], et seq.
Furniture, to cleanse or renovate, [122];
the selection of, [128], [330].
Games of skill for children, [449].
Garden seeds, planting, [350].
Gardening a recreation for the young, [447].
Gardens and yard, care of, [349].
Ganglionic system, the, [204].
Garnishing dishes, modes of, [111].
Gastric juice, supply of, [218].
Gherkins, pickled, [53].
Gingerbread, [88].
Ginger-snaps and seed cookies, [88].
Gold and silver cake, [87].
Good breeding, principles of, [260].
Gooseberries, how propagated, [358].
Gouffee’s recipes, [33].
Grafting and budding, [353].
Grapes, easy way to keep, [125];
to raise, [359].
Grates and stoves, [324].
Gravies, always to be strained, [46];
brown flour for meat, [46].
Grease and stains, mixtures for removing, [120], [124].
Grease-spots, to remove, [124].
Greens, how prepared, [111].
Green corn, how to cook, [61];
pudding, [81];
patties, [82].
Ground-plan of a house, [134].
Gruels, water and Oat-meal, [102].
Habits of system and order, [281], et seq.
Hair, laws of health for the, [457].
Ham, selection of, [21];
recipe for molasses-cured, [24];
brine for pickling, [25];
to smoke, [26];
hash of cold, [41];
boiled, [43];
how to keep, [108];
broiled eggs for, [111].
Hard yeast, [66].
Hashes, common way of spoiling, [39];
fresh meat, cold meat and potatoes, with eggs, [39];
with tomatoes, nice beef, veal, rice and cold meat, bread-crumbs and cold meat, cold beefsteak, [40];
cold mutton or venison, corned beef, cold ham, meats warmed over, cold meats, [41];
souse, tripe, [42];
how to dish, [111].
Hasty pudding or mush, [77].
Health, the care of, [129], [199].
Healthful food, selection of, [129].
Health of mind, [293], et seq.
Heart, the human, [152].
Heat, or caloric, explained, [164].
Helping at table, [338].
Hemming, hints on, [363].
Herrings, salt, [51];
smoked, [108].
Hominy for breakfast or supper, [70];
how purchased and kept, [105].
Hominy, or rice stew, [32].
Hop and potato yeast, [66].
Horses, care of, [307].
Horse-racing, about, [441].
Hosford’s method of making flour, [65].
Hospitality, the most agreeable, [453].
Hot-beds, to prepare, [349].
“House and Home Papers,” by Mrs. Stowe, [155], [425].
House-cleaning, [332].
House plants, care of, [352].
Houses, on the construction of, [133]-149.
Huckleberry cake, [87].
Hunting as a sport, [440].
Hygrodeik, the, [175].
Hypochondriasis, [297].
Hysteria, [297].
Ice-cream, general directions for, [95];
strawberry ice, ice-cream without cream, [95];
fruit ice-cream, [96];
lemonade and other ices, [96].
Iced fruit, [98].
Icing for cake, [89].
Indian meal, how purchased and kept, [105].
Indian pudding boiled, without eggs, [79];
baked, [81].
Indiana pickles, [55].
Indigo, to purchase and keep, [107].
Industrial schools, [362].
Infants, pure air for, [268];
mortality among, [390];
on giving to the older children, [391];
ignorance of parents concerning, [391];
importance of knowing how to take care of, [392];
Combe and Bell cited, [393], et seq.;
food for, [394];
medicines for, [394];
keeping warm, [395];
keeping their heads cool, [396];
bathing, [396];
to creep, [397];
habits, [397];
teething, [398];
constipation, [399];
diarrhœa, [399];
use of water in fever, [400].
Ingrafting, [355].
Ink, indelible, how to make, [122].
Ink-stains, to remove, [121].
Instinctive love, [372].
Intemperance in eating, [214], [218].
Involuntary motion, nerves of, [204].
Iodide of potassium, antidote for, [368].
Irish stew, [31].
Ironing, articles to be provided for, [117];
general directions for, [119].
Iron, to stop cracks in, [123].
Iron-ware for kitchen, [346].
Isinglass, to clarify, [98];
American, [105].
Jellies and preserves, to prepare, [90].
Jelly, white wine, [96];
apple, orange, [93];
what served with, [110].
Jelly-cake, [86].
Kid gloves, to clean, [121];
another way, [124].
Kidneys, function of the human, [238].
Kidneys, to cook, [44].
Kitchen, care of a, [343];
furniture for a, [346];
plan for a, [141].
Laces, to do up, [117].
Lamb chops, broiled, [50].
Lamb, to boil a shoulder or leg, [44].
Lamp-oil, to remove stains of, [121].
Lamps, oil and kerosene, [326].
Lard and drippings, to keep, [106].
Lard, to try out, [24].
Laughter is healthy, [449].
Laws of health, for the bones, for the muscles, [454];
for the lungs, for the digestive organs, [455];
for the skin, [456];
for the brain and nerves, for the teeth, eyes, and hair, [457].
Laying out yards and gardens, [351].
Lazy gentleman, a, [272].
Lead, antidote for, [368].
Leeds’s method of ventilation, [171].
Lemon pudding, [82];
jelly, [97];
peel, [107].
Lemonade ice, [96].
Lettuce salad, [57].
Leucoemia, [256].
Lewis, Dr. Dio, on ventilation, [159].
Light essential to health, [256].
Light for animals, [307].
Lightning, struck by, [369].
Lights for a house, [326].
Lime or baryta, antidote for, [368].
Liver, calf or pig, beef, to cook, [51].
Liver, use of the human, [238].
Loaf pudding, [82];
cake, [89].
Longevity, Sir John Sinclair on, [257].
Lungs, the human, [151];
laws of health for, [455].
Lye, to make, [115].
Macaroni, how purchased and kept, [105].
Macaroni pudding, [81].
Mahogany furniture, [333].
Mangoes, pickled, [54].
Manners at home and in society, [260], et seq.
Manners to servants, [435].
Marketing, [18].
Marmalade, quince, [94];
orange, [97].
Martinoes, to pickle, [54].
Mattresses, [139], [341].
Measures of quantity, [28].
Meat and rusk puddings, [76].
Mechanical skill developed in children, [450].
Medicines, the use of, [314], et seq.
Melancholy, condition of, [297].
Mental health and disease, [294], et seq.
Metal dishes, never cool soup in, [35].
Mice and rats, to get rid of, [124].
Mildew, to remove, [119].
Milk and egg sauce, [56].
Milk, dangerous use of, [101];
as a drink, [233].
Milk lemonade, [101].
Mint sauce for lamb, [56].
Minute pudding of potato starch, [78].
Mock cream, [79].
Model ventilation, [172], et seq.
Moisture in air necessary, [178].
Molasses, to purchase and keep, [106].
Moral character, what constitutes, [371].
Mucous membrane, the, [237].
Muffins, wheat, of flour, fine or unbolted, [72].
Muscles, laws of health for the, [454].
Muscular exercise, [208], et seq.
Mush or hasty pudding, [77].
Mushrooms, pickled, [53].
Music, considered as a recreation, [448].
Muslin curtains, [194].
Muslins, to starch, [117].
Mutton—division of a sheep, [20];
selection of, [21];
and turnip stew, [30];
soup, [38];
hash, [41];
boiled leg or shoulder of, [44];
roast, [47];
pie, [48].
Mutton chops, broiled, [50].
Napkins, table, [109].
Nasturtions, pickled, [53].
Nerves, laws of health for the, [467].
Nervous system, the, described, [202].
Nervousness in sick people, [320].
Nettle-rash caused by food, [240].
Night air, prejudice against, [160].
Nitrate of silver, antidote for, [368].
Novel-reading, [296], [445].
Nursery, selection of helpers in the, [130].
Nursing the sick, [319].
Oat-meal bread, [68];
for breakfast or supper, [71];
how purchased and kept, [105].
Odds and ends, advice about, [124].
Oil, to purchase and keep, [106].
Oil-paint, to remove spots of, [151].
Oino-mania, disease of the brain, [228].
Olla podrida, recipe for, [32].
Omelet of eggs, [51];
plain, bread, apple, [63];
oysters, [58].
One, two, three, four cake, [86].
Onions, used as flavoring, [35];
pickled, [53];
to cook, [62].
Open fire-places, [165];
the advantages of, [166].
Opium, the use of, [233];
antidote for, [369].
Orange-cake, [86];
marmalade, [97];
jelly, [98];
peel, [107].
Ornamental froth, [98].
Ornamentation of a house, [128].
Orphan asylum at Albany, treatment of children in the, [401].
Oyster plant, or salsify, to cook, [61].
Oysters, stewed, fried, fritters, scalloped, broiled, omelet, pickled, [58];
roast, [59].
Ox-muzzle made into an ornament, [196].
Oxygen, amount of in full-grown man, [150].
Packing and storing articles, [342].
Panada, [102].
Pancreas gland, the, [238].
Pan dowdy, [76].
Paper to keep preserves, [123].
Paralysis of portion of the brain, [206].
Parlor cheaply furnished, [195].
Parsley, as a garnish, [111].
Parsnips, how to cook, [62].
Partridges, to boil, [45].
Paste for puddings and pies should be banished from every table, [83];
pie-crusts, [83];
directions for making rich pie-crusts, [84.]
Patties of green corn, like oysters, [82].
Pea (green or dried) soup, [37].
Peaches, pickled, [52];
in pie, [79];
how to preserve, [91].
Pearl barley-water, [102].
Pearl barley and pearl wheat, how purchased and kept, [105].
Pearl wheat or cracked wheat, [71].
Pears, to preserve, [92].
Peppers, pickled, [53].
Perspiration tubes, length of, [237].
Philadelphia, death-rate of, [163].
Philanthropy, instances of true, [380].
Phin, Professor, on lighting houses, [326].
Phosphorus, antidote for, [368].
Pickle for cold fish, [59].
Pickled oysters, [58].
Pickles, general directions, [52], [110];
sweet, tomatoes, peaches, [52];
peppers, nasturtions, onions, gherkins, mushrooms, cucumbers, walnuts, [53];
mangoes, cabbage, martinoes, cucumbers, [54];
Indiana, cauliflower, or broccoli, [55];
never keep in glazed ware, [106].
Pictures, the hanging of, [332].
Pie, potato, [48].
Pie-crusts, [83], [84].
Piece-bag, a, [146].
Pies—meat, mutton, beef, chicken, rice-chicken, [48].
Pigeons, to boil, [45].
Pigs, benefited by cleanliness, [241].
Pilaff, or Turkish stew, [32].
Pillau, a favorite dish in the South, [44].
Pine-apples, to preserve, [92].
Pitch, to remove spots of, [120].
Plain cake, raised with eggs, [87].
Planting flower and garden seeds, [350].
Plum pie, [79].
Plum pudding, cracker, [82].
Plums, to preserve, [92].
Poisons, antidotes for certain, [367].
Pop-overs, of corn-meal, [76].
Pork, divisions of a hog, [21];
selection of, [21];
to salt, [24], [25];
broiled, [50];
fresh, [110].
Potash soap, to make, [115].
Potato, various modes of cooking, [60];
soup, [36];
pie, [48];
biscuit, [69];
yeast, [66];
starch pudding, [78].
Pot au feu, or French stew, [32].
Pot-pie—beef, veal, or chicken, [47].
Poultry, selection of, [21];
when and how to be killed, [22];
boiled, [110];
care of, [311].
Pound-cake, [87].
Precocity, juvenile, [295].
Preserves and jellies, general directions, [90];
how to keep, [108].
Preserving fruit-trees, [360].
Propagation of plants, [353].
Property, on using properly, [378].
Pruning, [356].
Prussic acid, antidote for, [368].
Puddings and pies, [74];
queen of all puddings, [75];
flour puddings, flour and fruit, rusk and milk, rusk, [75];
meat and rusk (one easily made), pan dowdy, corn-meal, pop-overs, best apple-pie, rice pudding, [76];
bread and fruit pudding, boiled-fruit pudding, English curd pudding, common apple-pie, plain custard, mush or hasty pudding, [77];
stale bread, rennet custard, bird’s nest pudding, minute pudding of potato starch, tapioca pudding, cocoa-nut pudding, [78];
pumpkin-pie, ripe-fruit pies, mock cream, pudding of fruit and bread-crumbs, bread and apple dumplings, Indian pudding without eggs, boiled Indian and suet puddings, [79];
dessert of rice and fruit, rice and apple, rich flour pudding, [80];
apple-pie, [80];
spiced apple-tarts, baked Indian pudding, apple custard, macaroni or vermicelli puddings, green-corn pudding, bread pudding for invalids, [81];
a good pudding, loaf pudding, lemon pudding, green-corn patties, cracker plum pudding, bread-and-butter pudding, [82];
sauces for puddings, [82];
paste for puddings and pies, [83].
Pumpkin and squash, how to cook, [62];
bread, [68];
pie, [79];
preserved, [94].
Puritans, descendants of the, [262].
Pyramid for a table, [99].
Quantity, measures of, [28].
Queen of all puddings, [75].
Quinces, to preserve, [91];
jelly, [91];
marmalade, [94].
Radiation of heat, [165].
Radishes, to prepare, [62].
Raisins, to purchase and keep, [107].
Ranges, cooking, [182], et seq.
Raspberries, how grown, [358].
Raspberry jam, [93];
whisk, [96];
vinegar, [101].
Rats and mice, to get rid of, [124].
Reading for the young, suitable, [446].
Reflection of heat, [165].
Relief, bestowing, [385].
Religion, power of, in the household, [280];
of servants, [438].
Religious training in the family, [414], et seq.
Rennet, to prepare, [23];
custard, [78];
wine, [78];
whey, [102].
Reserve power of the body, [162].
Rice, modes of using, [73];
as stew, [32];
with cold-meat hash, [39], [41];
for breakfast and supper, [70];
waffles, [73];
pudding, [76];
and fruit dessert, [80];
how to purchase and keep, [105];
plain boiled, [110].
Right use of time and property, [370], et seq.
Roast oysters, [59].
Roast and baked meats—beef, to roast, in a cook-stove, pork, [46];
mutton, veal, poultry, pot-pie of beef, veal, or chicken, [47];
mutton and beef pie, chicken-pie, rice chicken-pie, potato-pie, calf’s head, [48].
Rolls, of corn-meal, [69].
Rooms, the care of, [330].
Rose-bushes, budding, [355].
Roses and other plants, how to treat, [123].
Royal crumpets, [72].
Rules for setting a table, [337].
Rusk puddings, [75].
Rusk and milk, [75].
Rusk and meat puddings, [76].
Rust from knives, to keep, [122].
Rye, how purchased and kept, [105].
Rye and indian bread, [68].
Rye or corn meal for breakfast or supper, [70].
Sachem’s head corn-cake, [73].
Sago, how purchased and kept, [105].
Salad, chicken, [96];
a dressing for, [57].
Sally Lunn, improved, [72].
Salsify, or oyster-plant, [61].
Salt, to purchase and keep, [106].
Salt, to meats, [22]; to beef, [23];
to fish, [23];
for animals, [307].
Salt herrings, [51].
Salted provisions must be watched, [108].
Sal volatile, how preserved, [108].
Sassafras jelly, [102].
Sauces—milk and egg, drawn butter, mint, cranberry, apple, walnut or butternut catsup, [56];
mock capers, salad dressing,
57;
tomato catsup, [57];
for puddings, liquid, [82];
hard, a healthful, an excellent, [83].
Sausages, to prepare cases, [26];
meat, [26];
bologna, [26].
Scalloped oysters, [58].
Scallops, to cook, [59].
Science and training needful to women, [127].
Scissors, lessons in use of, [362].
Scorched articles, how to whiten, [119].
Screws, movable, [136].
Scrofula, produced by foul air, [158].
Sea-sickness aggravated by bad air, [159].
Seasoning, difficulty of directing as to, [28].
Secreting organs, the, [238].
Selection of meats, poultry, and fish, [18]-22.
Servants, training and government of, [130];
the care of, [424], et seq.
Sewing, hints on, [361];
in public schools, [362].
Sewing-machines, [364].
Sheep, care of, [310].
Shelter for animals, [306].
Sick, drinks and articles for the, [100];
care of, [313], et seq.
Silk, directions for ironing, [119];
to renovate black, [123].
Silk kerchiefs and ribbons, to clean [121];
silk hose and gloves, to clean, [121].
Silver, to clean, [123].
Simple drinks, [101].
Sirup for sweetmeats, [91].
Sisters of Charity, [322].
Skin, the human, [235];
functions of, [154];
laws of health for, [456].
Sleeping-rooms, ventilation in, [177].
Smoke hams, how to, [26].
Smoked tongues, to boil, [44].
Smoky chimneys, cause and remedy, [190].
Snow, a dish of, [99].
Snow for eggs, [123].
Soap, to purchase and keep, [107];
to make soft soap, [116].
Social duties and amusements, [440], et seq.
Soda, to purchase and keep, [107].
Soda biscuits, [69].
Soft soap, to make, [116].
Soil for pot-plants, to prepare, [349].
Soups—general directions for making, [35];
potato, green corn, [36];
plain beef, rich beef, green pea, dried bean or pea, clam, [37];
mutton, French vegetable, plain calf’s head, [38].
Souse, [42].
Soy, a fashionable sauce, [110].
Spanish olla podrida, recipe for, [32].
Spencer (Herbert), on treatment of offspring, [390].
Spermaceti, to remove spots of, [121].
Spiced apple-tarts, [81].
Spices, how purchased and kept, [107].
Spine, the human, [244].
Split-grafting, [355].
Sponge-cake, rich, [87];
plain, [88].
Sprains, remedies for, [366].
Sprinkling, folding, and ironing, [118].
Squash and pumpkin, how to cook, [62];
pie, [79].
Stains and grease, mixtures for removing, [119], [120].
Stale-bread pudding, [78].
Starch, to purchase and keep, [107];
to prepare, [116].
Starching muslins and laces, [117].
Steam-coils for warming dwellings, [180].
Steam-doctors, [240].
Stew or soup kettle, [28].
Stewed oysters, [58].
Stews, general directions for, [29];
varieties of, [30].
Stimulants unnecessary, [225].
Stimulating food, [221].
Stock for soap, [36].
Store-room, cool and dry place indispensable, [104];
plan for a, [141];
the care of, [348].
Stores, providing and care of family, [103].
Stoves and grates, [324].
Stoves are economical, [177];
for cooking, [182];
durability of the cottage-stove, [187].
Stowe’s, Mrs., “House and Home Papers,” [155], [425].
Strawberries, to preserve, [93];
the proper soil for, [358].
Strawberry-ice, [96];
whisk, [96];
vinegar, [101].
Straw-matting for chambers, [332].
Strong-flavored meats, [110].
Strychnine, antidote for, [369].
Succotash, how to cook, [61].
Suffocation through defective flues, [191].
Sugar an unwholesome diet, [74].
Sugars, how purchased and kept, [105].
Suitable meats and vegetables, [110].
Supper-dishes, [70]-73.
Sweet herbs, how preserved, [107].
Sweet potatoes, to cook, [61].
Sweet-breads, calf’s, [44];
broiled, [50].
Swine, care of, [310].
System and order, habits of, [281], et seq.
Table furniture, [336].
Table manners, [268].
Tables, art of setting, [109], [336];
rules for setting, [337];
for dinners, [337];
waiting on, [338].
Tapioca, how purchased and kept, [105];
as a pudding, [78].
Tar, to remove spots of, [120].
Taylor’s, Dr. George, movement cure, [207].
Tea, to make, [100];
cream for, [101];
the purchase of, [107];
for children, [230];
as a beverage, [231].
Teeth, laws of health for the, [457].
Temper, preservation of good, [274], et seq.
Theatres, regarding, [443].
Thinning fruit on trees, [356].
Third bread, [68].
Tight-lacing, the evils of, [247], et seq.
Time and property, right use of, [370], et seq.
Time, on apportioning, [375];
on saving, [376];
devoted by Jews to religion, [377].
Tin ware for kitchen, [346].
Toast and cider, [101].
Tobacco, the use of, [233].
Tomatoes, with meat-hash, [40];
pickled, [52];
excellent way of preparing, [54];
to cook, [62];
sirup, [102].
Tongues, to boil smoked, [44].
Tortures inflicted by fashion, [249].
Tough beef, how to boil, [43].
Training necessary for women, [127].
Transplanting, directions for, [351];
for trees, [352].
Trials of a housekeeper, [275], et seq.
Tripe, [42].
Turkeys, to boil, [45];
salad, [57].
Turkish stew, or pilaff, [32].
Turpentine, to remove spots of, [120].
Typhoid fever and the microscope, [161].
Tyranny of servants, [435].
Unbolted flour to be kept in kegs, [105].
Variety at meals, [219].
Variety of food necessary, [104].
Varnished articles, to remove stains on, [121].
Veal, season for use, [20];
divisions of, [20];
selection of, [20];
hash, [40];
boiled, [44];
roast, [47];
pot-pie of, [47];
broiled, [50];
veal cheese, [51];
broiled with eggs, [111].
Vegetable food, [217].
Vegetables—potatoes, [60];
sweet potatoes, green corn, succotash, salsify, or oyster plant, egg plant, carrots, beets, [61];
parsnips, pumpkins, and squash, celery, radishes, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, and cauliflower, [62];
asparagus, macaroni, [63].
Vegetables should not be boiled in soup, [35].
Velvet, directions for ironing, [119].
Venison or mutton hash, [41].
Ventilation, importance of, [150], et seq.
Vermicelli pudding, [81];
the purchase of, [105].
Vermin in animals, [307].
Waffles of unbolted flour, [72];
of rice, [73].
Waiting at table, [338].
Wall-paper, to cleanse, [123].
Walnut catsup, [56].
Walnuts, pickled, [53].
Ward cases, [196].
Warmed-over meats made into hash, [41].
Warming a home, [164].
Warm plates, [110].
Washing dishes, [344];
rules for, [345].
Washing, ironing, and cleansing, necessaries for, [112];
common mode of washing, [113];
flannels, bedding, calicoes, [114];
use of bran water, [114];
use of potato-water, [115];
to cleanse broadcloth, [115].
Wash-leather articles, to clean, [121].
Water-cure, the, [240].
Water-gruel, [102].
Water-melon rinds, to preserve, [94].
Wax, to remove spots of, [121].
Weekly apportionment of work, [287].
Well, to purify a, [123].
Wheat muffins, [72].
Whiten articles, to, [119].
White tea, and boys’ coffee, [101].
Whip-grafting, [355].
Whip syllabub, [97].
Wine jelly, [96].
Wine whey, [101].
Women, courtesy to, [264].
Wood, a cord and a load of, [324].
Wooden ware for kitchen, [347].
Wood-work of a house, [148].
Yeast, brewers’ or distillers', the best, hop and potato yeast, hard yeast, [66].
Young children, management of, in the Orphan Asylum at Albany, [401];
effects of eating too often, [402];
the intellectual training of, [402];
habits of submission, [403];
self-denial, [404];
sensitiveness, [405];
unsteadiness in, and over-government, [406];
multiplication of rules, [407];
govern by rewards, avoid angry tones, [408];
moral habits, [410];
cultivation of habits of modesty, [411];
treatment of forbidden topics, [411];
purity of thought, [412];
warning to parents, [413].
Young girl, dressing properly a, [251].
Zymotic diseases, [161].