Spons' Household Manual / A treasury of domestic receipts and a guide for home management

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The Householder

The Householder. Parochial matters.—Parochial business is managed by a “vestry,” at which the parish clergyman has a right to preside. Public notice of vestry meetings must be given 3 days beforehand, and copies of the notice fixed to the principal doors of churches and chapels, signed by rector, vicar, churchwarden, or overseer. Every parishioner paying rates is entitled to votes. If assessed at or above 50l., he may give one vote for every 25l., but no individual can have more than 6 votes; no person can vote by proxy. The chairman has a casting vote. Churchwardens are chosen, in the first week after Easter, by joint consent of minister and parishioners, or one by the minister and another by the parishioners. Peers, members of Parliament, clergymen, dissenting ministers, medical men, and attorneys, are exempt from serving as churchwarden. Churchwardens are trustees of money given for the benefit of the church, and must attend to repairs of the church and fences of the churchyard. The pews in a parish church are the property of the parish; distribution rests with the bishop or the churchwardens. The churchwardens of a parish in which a dead body is cast ashore from the sea, must have it interred in the parish burial ground.

The local management of this country is far too elaborate to be even sketched here; for instance, the Public Health Act 1875 contains 343 sections, most of them of great length, and a variety of subsequent amendments further complicate things, while the metropolis has its own long series of enactments on the same part of the subject. The whole matter is one which requires special study of countless Acts of Parliament, based upon no theory in particular, and which will no doubt shortly be thoroughly revised and reformed. The householder desirous of information should have recourse to the officers of the local authority or some member of that body, and if he cannot thus get the satisfaction he wants he must recognise the inevitable result of the activity of his own representatives and consult his solicitor.

Juries.—All “good and lawful men” are eligible and liable to be called on to serve on a coroner’s jury at an inquest held in the neighbourhood, and non-attendance of a duly-summoned person is punished with a fine which may amount to 5l.

On juries at the assizes or sessions, or for the trial of causes in Middlesex, any person who holds a freehold or copyhold of an annual value of 10l., or a lease of 21 years or upwards at an annual rent of 20l., or who pays rates of 20l. per annum (30l. in Middlesex) is eligible and liable to serve, provided his age is between 21 and 60; when over 60, he remains liable till he has notified his age to the authorities. Peers, members of Parliament, judges, clergymen of every sect or faith, barristers, solicitors, notaries, officers of legal courts, coroners, gaolers, physicians, surgeons, dentists, apothecaries, chemists, officers of the army, navy, militia, and yeomanry on full pay, officers of the post-office, customs, inland revenue, or police, metropolitan police-court officials, and officers of the Houses of Lords and Commons, are exempted from serving; and members of the council of a municipal borough cannot be called on to serve in the county where the borough is situate, nor can burgesses of a borough having separate sessions be summoned to the county sessions. The churchwardens and overseers must make a list of the persons so liable to serve, and on the three first Sundays in September fix a copy on the door of every place of worship in the district, with a proper notification of the special sessions for hearing objections, at which sessions the justices may revise the list either by striking out the names of persons who are exempt or not qualified, or under permanent physical disability, or by adding other persons after due notice given to them. Jurors who are esquires by law, bankers, or merchants, or who occupy a farm rated at 300l., or other premises at 100l., or a private dwelling-house rated at 50l. elsewhere than in a town of 20,000 inhabitants and upwards, are to be distinguished, and are qualified and liable to serve on special juries, but they remain as liable as before to be summoned for a common jury. A juror must attend according to the tenor of his summons, which may be served either by being shown to him or by being left at his usual place of abode with some person there inhabiting, or by being sent by post to him; and if, the summons having been so served six days previously, he fails to attend, he is liable to such a fine as the court thinks fit to impose. The liability to serve on a grand jury is unlimited, but apart from this a juror cannot be summoned more than once a year for the assizes and sessions unless the list is exhausted.

A juror may also be compelled under a five pounds penalty to serve in the County Court of his district twice in the year, but is exempt if he has served at the assizes or at the Royal Courts or Central Criminal Court within six months previously. There is still a further liability in various districts in respect of the local courts, such as the Mayor’s Court, London, and the Salford Hundred Court; and the sheriff requires the attendance of a jury in cases of assessment of damages or compensation, or an inquiry as to the sanity of an alleged lunatic, or as to claims made by virtue of the prerogative of the Crown.

Aliens otherwise qualified, who have been domiciled in England or Wales for ten years or upwards, but no others, are qualified and liable to serve—since 1870, in which year was abolished the right of an alien prisoner to have half the jury aliens.

The Franchise.—Every man of full age who on the 31st July and for the twelve months preceding is an inhabitant occupier, as owner or tenant, whether in a county or a borough, of any dwelling-house, or any part of a house separately occupied as a dwelling, the poor rates in respect of which have been duly paid, is entitled to be placed on the register of Parliamentary voters. There are various other qualifications which confer the franchise, but full information and assistance in obtaining registration are so readily given by the political associations everywhere, that it seems unnecessary to state them here. But the lodger franchise deserves some notice. For alike in counties and boroughs any man who, being of full age, occupies on the 31st July, and for the twelve months preceding, in the same dwelling-house, separate lodgings, at a rent which would be not lower than 4s. a week if the rooms were unfurnished, and who has resided there for the twelve months, and who makes claim in the prescribed form between the 1st and 25th of August, is entitled to be registered as a voter.

Fire Insurance.—The premiums payable in common insurances of houses used for residence and the ordinary furniture therein are so moderate that every householder ought to insure. China, glass, watches, jewels, musical instruments, and pictures have to be paid for at an average rate of from 4s. to 5s. per 100l., but otherwise the rate for house and furniture may be taken to be from 1s. to 2s. 6d. per 100l. Circumstances alter cases, however, and the rates of course vary with the risk in each instance, and those given here are only mentioned as an index of their moderation. It is essential that a full disclosure of the circumstances be made to the office, for the contract of insurance is one requiring the most complete candour and good faith on the part of the insured. There should be a survey by the office, and every information given to the inspector. Of course no office is bound to accept an insurance, and while considering the proposal they will usually, on payment of a deposit, effect a temporary insurance for two or three weeks. A policy usually contains and is subject to many express conditions which speak, more or less distinctly, for themselves in each case, and need not be here discussed. But the contract contained in the policy is one of indemnity against loss, and therefore a person cannot validly insure property in which he has no interest at all, nor can he in any case recover beyond the amount of the interest which he has in the property insured. And as a policy cannot be assigned without the consent of the assurers, a change of ownership may render the policy useless pro tanto. It is obvious that where the wife owns all or part of the furniture, the better plan is to take out the policy in her husband’s and her names jointly, for even if she owns it all, her husband while living with her has an insurable interest in it. It is usually provided that the company may reinstate the things destroyed or damaged, instead of paying for the loss, while as regards insurances on buildings there is an Act of Parliament which provides that any person interested may require the insurance money to be laid out in repairs or rebuilding. It is important to notice that a change in the state of the premises may invalidate the policy, for the company contract to insure against the risk described in the policy, and cannot be held liable in respect of one which is materially different, or one which is greater. The sanction of the company should therefore be asked for, and the conditions usually contain express stipulations on the subject. Lastly, it may be added that even if the fire has been caused by the negligence of the insured person, the company are still liable on the policy.

Nuisance.—The law upon this point is to be referred to a principle very simple in itself, though its limitations are sometimes difficult to observe. The principle is that one must not use one’s own property so as to injure one’s neighbour. So one must keep one’s beasts, filth, stenches, &c., within the boundaries of one’s own property; and if they transgress, the transgression imposes liability for the damage caused thereby. But in questions of this nature the law does not regard trifling and small inconveniences or allow persons to stand on extreme rights, for things could not go on if it did, and everything must be looked at from a reasonable point of view. The noise resulting from the ordinary use of the dwelling-house next door may penetrate the intervening wall, but it must be put up with. On the other hand, the noise may be so great as to amount to a nuisance, and the constant ringing of bells and other noises have been stopped by the Court for this reason, and howling dogs or crowing cocks may give the neighbours good grounds for complaint. In the case of any premises, gutter, privy, drain, ashpit, or any deposit which are or is in such a state as to be injurious to health, or any animal which is so kept, information should be given to the local sanitary authority, who have special powers given them. Overcrowded houses, and factory or workshop chimneys sending out black smoke so as to cause a nuisance, are within the same category. As to these matters, the metropolis is not governed by the same enactment as the rest of England, but it will always be a safe plan to apply to the vestry or the local board of the district with a proper description of the matter complained of, when the applicant will at any rate receive attention in exchange for courtesy. It will often be more convenient to make inquiry at the nearest police station, and the police will put the inquirer in the right course.

Any person suffering from a dangerous infectious disease, who wilfully makes use without proper precautions of any street or any public conveyance, is liable to a penalty of 5l., and so is the person in charge of him.

Keep out of law. If you are involved in it, remember that what costs little is usually worth less; take good advice and act thereon.

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INDEX.

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] X [Y] [Z]

Abbotsford grate, [66]
Abernethy biscuits, [210]
Absinthe, [181]
Accidents, [780]
—— with boilers, [838]
Accumulators, electric, [94]
Acetate of soda stove, [82]
Acetic acid poisoning, [793]
Acid stains, removing, [553]
Acne, [822]
Aconite poisoning, [792]
Addressing persons, [648]
Administering medicine, [776]
Aerated drinks, [171]
Agnew pudding, [387]
Agro dolce sauce, [460]
Aim of exercise, [870]
Air, cooling, [59]
—— from hot-air furnaces, [76]
—— of rooms, freshening, [56]
—— pressure experiments, [673]
—— pump ventilators, [58]
——, purifying, [57]
—— space necessary in rooms, [55]
——, testing, [55], [518]
——, warming fresh, [77]
Airing infants, [748]
—— rooms, [55]
Ajo blanco, [509]
Alabaster, cleaning, [536]
Albanian dress, [735]
Albert pudding, [387]
Albo-carbon gas light, [92]
Alcohol in feeding, [601]
Alcoholic poisoning, [792]
Ale, see Beer.
Alexandra cream, [771]
—— ice pudding, [387]
Alkaline poisons, [793]
Alkermes cordial, [182]
Almond bread, [210]
—— cakes, [210]
—— flavour, [478]
—— Génoise pastry, [387]
—— hardbake, [437]
—— jumbles, [388]
—— milk, [775]
—— pastry, [388]
—— pudding, [388]
—— rice pudding, [388]
—— savarin, [388]
—— Savoy cake, [210]
Almonds, [582]
Aloes, [777]
Alum, [778]
Amateur theatricals, [654]
Amazon bitters, [180]
Amber pudding, [388]
Ambrosia syrup, [176]
American biscuits, [210]
American dishes, [481]
—— outfit, [727]
—— stoves, [70]
Ammonia poisoning, [793]
Ammonio-citrate of iron, [778]
Amnastich, [504]
Anchovy butter, [271], [460]
——, fried, [272]
—— sandwiches, [272]
—— toast, [272]
—— with eggs and endive, [272]
—— with olives, [272]
Angelica cordial, [182]
—— ratafia, [182]
Angels’ food, [388]
Angels on horseback, [288]
Angostura bitters, [180]
Animal charcoal as a filter, [24]
—— foods, [591]
Anise liqueur, [182]
Anise-seed cordial, [182]
Anisette cordial, [182]
Answering invitations, [650]
Antidotes to poisons, [792]
Anti-fat diet, [595]
Antimonial wine, [778]
Antimony poisoning, [793]
Ants, destroying, [557]
Appert’s translucent glass, [56]
Apple and currant soup, [247]
—— —— quince tart, [389]
—— brandy, [182]
—— bread, [210]
—— cake, [389]
—— Charlotte, [389]
—— chips, [565]
—— chutney, [132]
—— compote, [389]
—— cordial, [189]
—— cream cakes, [389]
—— custard, [390]
—— devil, [390]
—— dumplings, [390]
—— flavour, [478]
—— fool, [390]
—— ginger, [138], [391]
—— jam, [139]
—— jelly, [139]
—— marmalade, [139]
—— pudding, [391]
—— rings, [391]
—— roly-poly, [392]
—— sauce, [460]
—— snow, [392]
—— soup, [247]
—— syrup, [176]
—— tart, [392]
—— wine, [191]
Apples, [565], [566], [568], [569], [574], [576], [577], [579], [582]
—— and tapioca, [389]
——, baked, [389]
——, keeping, [114], [115], [116]
——, stewed, [392]
Apricot cake, [393]
—— chartreuse, [393]
—— cream, [393]
—— flavour, [478]
—— omelet, [393], [454]
—— sauce, [460]
—— toast, [393]
—— wine, [191]
Apricots, [569], [572], [574]
——, keeping, [121]
April gardening, [932]
—— markets, [569]
Argand gas burners, [87]
Armchair, [98]
Arnotto for colouring cheese, [159]
Arnott’s stove, [70]
—— ventilator for ranges, [226]
Aromatic bitters, [180]
—— chalk, [778]
—— wine-bitters, [182]
Arrowroot, [772]
—— blancmange, [393]
—— pudding, [394]
—— shape, [394]
Arsenic poisoning, [793]
Artichoke salad, [383]
—— soup, [247]
Artichokes, [568], [573], [576], [579], [582]
—— and eggs, [450]
——, boiled, [371]
——, fried, [372]
——, Jerusalem, [376]
——, keeping, [117]
——, stewed, [372]
——, stuffed, [372]
Artificial feeding, [598]
Asbestos, incandescent, [77]
Ashpits, disinfecting, [50]
Asparagus, [484], [568], [569], [570], [572]
——, boiled, [372]
——, keeping, [117]
—— salad, [383]
—— soup, [247]
Aspect compass, [3]
—— for dwellings, [2]
Asphalte tennis courts, [881]
Aspic jelly, [367]
Asuree, [511]
Atkins’s filters, [27]
Aubergines, [579]
August gardening, [934]
—— markets, [574]
Aunt Eleanor’s tartlets, [394]
Australian outfit, [722]
Austrian dress, [728]
Autumn milk, [156]

Baba, [394]
Babies’ clothing, [746]
Bacalao, [510]
Backboard for electric bell, [106]
Back-to-back houses, [7]
Bacon, boiled, [331]
——, broiled, [332]
——, buying, [575]
—— fat, [332]
——, fried, [332]
——, salting, [125]
——, spiced, [125]
—— with cabbage, [331]
—— —— potatoes, [331]
—— —— spinach, [332]
Bacon’s high-pressure heating system, [81]
Bacteria in water, [23]
Baden-Baden pudding, [394]
Badminton (drink), [191]
—— (game), [872]
Bailey-Denton’s cistern filter, [33]
Bailey’s oven pyrometer, [207]
Bain marie, [242]
Bakers’ ovens, [207]
—— pyrometer, [207]
Bakewell pudding, [394]
Baking bread, [207]
—— fish, [268]
—— ovens in ranges, [222]
Balcony pipes, [49]
Baldness, [707], [809]
Balm wine, [191]
Banana syrup, [176]
Banbury cake, [210]
Bandaging, [783]
Barbel, [580]
——, broiled, [272]
——, roast, [272]
Barberries, preserved, [139]
Barley gruel, [410]
—— milk, [776]
—— soup, [247]
—— sugar, [437]
—— water, [191], [775]
Barm, [207]
Barrel stand, [168]
Barreling wine, [190]
Barrels, cleaning, [169]
Barszcz soup, [261], [506]
Basement sinks, [50]
—— walls, [96]
Basting, [241]
Bath buns, [211]
—— cake, [211]
—— chaps, [125]
Bath, water apertures in, [49]
Bathing, [828]
—— dresses, [718]
—— rules, [830]
Bathroom, [49], [828]
——, situation, [49]
—— waste, [49]
Batter-cream soup, [247]
——, frying, [407]
—— pudding, [395]
Battery for electric bell, [102]
Bean soup, [256]
Beans, [582]
——, broad, boiled, [372]
——, French, [375]
——, haricot, [375]
——, keeping, [114], [118]
Becaficos, [571]
Béchamel sauce, [460]
Bedclothes, [702]
Bedding, disinfecting, [818]
Bedfellows, [703]
Bed of sickroom, [758]
Bed rests, [760]
Bedroom, [699]
——, aspect for, [3]
—— carpets, [101]
—— cupboard, [98]
—— curtains, [98], [101]
——, decorating, [101]
—— fire economiser, [64]
—— floors, [101]
——, furnishing, [101]
—— furniture, [98]
——, servants’, [700]
—— suite, [99]
—— walls, [101]
——, warming, [699]
—— woodwork, [101]
Beds, [701]
——, airing, [760]
——, making, [702]
——, position of, [760]
Bedsteads, [98], [101], [700]
Bed table, [760]
Bed ticks, cleaning, [549]
Beef, [309]
—— à la financière, [309]
—— à la macédoine, [309]
—— à la mode, [309]
—— à la Napolitaine, [309]
——, boiled, [309]
——, braised, [310]
——, brasciolette, [310]
——, bubble and squeak, [310]
——, buying, [563], [565], [567]
——, carving, [622]
——, collared, [125]
——, corned, [125]
—— croquettes, [311]
——, fillet, [311]
——, frizzled, [311]
——, Hamburgh, [127]
—— hams, [125]
—— hash, [311]
——, hung, [311]
——, Hungarian, [128]
—— kidney, [311]
——, minced collops, [311]
——, mock brawn, [312]
—— pot au feu, [313]
——, potted, [125], [313]
——, pressed, [313]
——, roast, [314]
——, salt, [314]
——, salting, [125]
——, scalloped, [314]
——, spiced, [126], [314]
—— tea, [258], [316], [771]
—— tournedos, [316]
—— vinaigrette, [316]
Beefsteak à la Bordelaise, [315]
—— pie, [315]
—— pudding, [315]
——, stewed, [315]
Beer, [179]
——, bottling, [179]
——, brightening cloudy, [179]
——, finings for, [180]
——, restoring sour, [180]
—— soup, [247], [489]
——, summer, [179]
Bees, keeping, [928]
Beetroot, [565], [582]
——, baked, [372]
—— beer, [191]
——, boiled, [372]
——, preserving, [139]
—— salad, [383]
—— with cream sauce, [372]
Belgian dishes, [484]
Bell and telephone, [103]
Belladonna liniment, [778]
—— poisoning, [792]
Bells, [102]
Bells, electric, [102]
Bell traps, [39], [45], [50]
Bell-wire pipes, [49], [102]
Bell wires, [102]
Belts, [711]
Benches, [862]
Benzol poisoning, [792]
Bernays’s manganese filter, [29]
Bethlehem dress, [742]
Bézique, Polish, [686]
Bhartas, [495]
Bicarbonate of potash, [778]
—— —— soda, [778]
Bichromate of potash poisoning, [793]
—— pile, [93]
Bilberry wine, [192]
Billiard room, aspect for, [3]
Bills of fare, dinners, [635]
Bins for wine, [190]
Birch wine, [192]
Birds’-nests soup, [247]
Bischof’s spongy iron filter, [30]
Biscuit charlotte, [395]
—— powder, [211]
Biscuits, [210]
——, Abernethy, [210]
——, American, [210]
——, Brighton, [212]
——, buttered, [212]
——, Captain’s, [212]
——, cracknel, [212]
——, drop, [213]
——, filbert, [213]
——, lemon, [214]
——, macaroons, [214]
——, Naples,

[214]
——, Queen’s, [217]
——, rout, [217]
——, Savoy, [218]
——, sweetmeat nuts, [219]
——, tops and bottoms, [220]
——, wine, [220]
——, York, [220]
Bishop (drink), [192]
Bishop pudding, [395]
Bites, [780]
Bitter-almonds flavour, [478]
Bitters, [180]
Blackbeetles, destroying, [557]
Blackberries, [579]
Blackberry brandy, [182]
—— cordial, [183]
—— jam, [137], [139]
—— jelly, [140]
—— mould, [395]
—— pudding, [395]
—— syrup, [176]
—— tart, [395]
—— wine, [192]
Black butter, [461]
Blackcock, carving, [632]
Black currant cordial, [189]
—— —— jam, [137]
—— —— jelly, [140]
—— currants, bottled, [140]
Blackened ceilings, [85]
Black Forest dress, [731]
Black Ghost, [682]
Black puddings, [511]
Blanched turkey, [366]
Blancmange, [395], [601], [770]
Blankets, [702]
Bleeding, [781]
Blind area walls, [5]
Blinds of nursery, [746]
Blistering fluid poisoning, [793]
Blisters, [763]
Bloater à la Sefton, [272]
—— on toast, [272]
Bloaters, pickled, [487]

——, potted, [126]
Block, [688]
Blowers, [80]
Blowing out candles, [83]
Blue gum for colds, [801]
Blue pill, [778]
Bluestone poisoning, [793]
Blue vinney cheese, [164]
Blueing machine, [855]
Boar’s head, [126], [332]
Bobbins for bells, [106]
Bobotie, [487]
Boiled potatoes, keeping, [113]
Boiler explosions, [838]
Boilers, [832]
——, steam, [940]
Boiling, [241]
—— fish, [268]
Boker’s bitters, [180]
Bola d’amor, [504]
Bolding’s gas regulator burner, [89]
Bolsters, [702]
Bombay ducks, [272]
—— pudding, [395]
Bondon cheese, [166]
Bone, cleaning, [533]
—— soup, [247]
Boned ham, [334]
—— shoulder of mutton, [330]
Bones, broken, [783]
—— for soup, keeping, [112]
Boning fowl, [349], [350]
—— turkey, [367]
Bonne femme soup, [248], [267]
Books, care of, [903]
——, cleaning, [541]
—— on bedroom, [705]
—— on dairy, [167]
—— on dining room, [647]
—— on drawing room, [698]
—— on dressing room, [745]
—— on dwelling, [111]
—— on farmyard. 929
—— on garden, [935]
—— on housewife’s room, [582]
—— on kitchen, [517]
—— on playground, [888]
—— on schoolroom, [869]
—— on sickroom, [826]
—— on workroom, [902]
Boots, [711]
——, buying, [712]
——, preserving, [713]
Borax, [778]
Bordeaux cake, [211]
Bordelaise sauce, [461]
Borshch, [507]
Boston brown bread, [481]
—— pudding, [396]
Bottles, cleaning, [170], [531]
——, corking, [170]
——, drying, [170]
——, tying down, [170]
Bottling beer, [179]
—— black currants, [140]
—— cherries, [140]
—— cider, [194]
—— currants, [138]
—— damsons, [142]
—— fruit, [138]
—— gooseberries 138, [142]
—— plums, [138], [148]
—— raspberries, [138]
—— rhubarb, [138], [151]
—— strawberries, [138]
—— wine, [190]
Bottling-wax, [138]
Boudin of fish, [269]
Boudoir furniture, [98]
Bouillabaisse, [269], [505]
Bouilli, [242]
Bouillon, [242]
Bournes, [13]
Bowle, [489]
Box gutters, [18]
—— mangle, [857]
Boyle’s air cooler, [59]
—— —— warmer, [77]
—— ventilator, [58]
Bracciolette, [503]
Braces, [711]
Brain worries, [794]
Brains, [569]
Braising, [242]
Bramah closets, [47], [48]
Bran bread, [593]
Brandied peaches, [147]
—— plums, [149]
—— quinces, [150]
Brandy bitters, [180]
—— butter, [461]
—— flavour, [478]
—— sauce, [461]
—— shrub, [183]
—— snaps, [211]
Brass, cleaning, [536]
Brawn, [126], [333]
——, mock, [312]
Bread, [207], [592]
——, almond, [210]
——, baking, [207]
——, Colchester, [212]
——, curing sour dough, [208]
——, diet, [213]
——, fancy, [210]
——, flour for, [208]
—— for invalids, [772]
——, gas ovens, [208]
—— in tins, [209]
——, Italian, [214]
——, keeping, [113]
——, kneading, [209]
——, milk for, [208]
—— mould, [492]
—— ovens, [207]
—— potatoes for, [208]
——, short-, [218]
——, steam ovens, [208]
——, testing, [520]
——, Vienna, [220]
—— with barm, [207]
—— —— German yeast, [208]
—— —— seconds flour, [209]
Breadcrumbs, baked, [461]
——, fried, [354], [461]
——, plain, [461]
Bread-making in hot weather, [209]
Bread poultice, [762]
—— puddings, [396]
—— sauce, [461]
Breadstuffs, buying, [566]
Breakages, law of, [961]
Breakfast cake, [211]
—— cloth, laying, [607]
Breakfasts, [641]
——, wedding, [646]
Bream, [272]
——, broiled, [273]
——, buying, [565]
——, roast, [273]
——, soused, [273]
——, stewed, [273]
Breast of mutton, [317]
—— veal, [343]
Breathing in smoke, [110]
Bretzeln, [489]
Brewers’ yeast, [207]
Brewing, [179]
Brianees, [496]
Brick drains, evils of, [52]
—— ——, objections to, [53]
—— ——, signs of perishing, [53]
Brick-flue ranges, [221]
Bride cake, [211], [216]
Brie cheese, [166]
Brightening cloudy beer, [179]
Brighton biscuits, [212]
Brill, [273], [565], [566], [568], [570], [576], [580]
Brioche, [397]
Briquettes, [581]
British cheeses, [164]
Brittany dress, [739], [742]
Broad beans, [573]
—— ——, boiled, [372]
Broccoli, [372], [565], [582]
—— with white sauce, [373]
Brochan, [509]
Broiling fish, [268]
Broken bones, [783]
Bronze, cleaning, [537]
Broth, mutton, [259], [318]
——, Scotch, [265]
——, tea-kettle, [266]
Broths as food, [599]
Brown and Green’s kitchener, [228]
Brown bread, [593]
—— —— ice, [442]
—— butter sauce, [462]
—— pudding, [397]
—— sauce, [462]
—— sharp sauce, [473]
Browned crab, [277]
Brunoise soup, [248], [267]
Brushing the hair, [810]
Brussels carpet, [96]
—— sprouts, [579], [582]
—— ——, boiled, [373]
—— —— omelet, [454]
Bubble and squeak, [310]
Bucellas (drink), [193]
Buckskin gloves, cleaning, [532]
Buckwheat cakes, [481]
Bugs, destroying, [558]
Bulgarian dress, [728], [731]
Bullaces, [579]
Bullock’s heart, [310]
Bumaloes, [272]
Bunions, [806]
Buns, Bath, [211]
——, Chelsea, [212]
——, cinnamon, [212]
——, hot cross, [213]
——, saffron, [218]
Burdwan, [496]
Burglars, precautions, [108]
Burgundy cup, [193]
Burners, Argand, [87]
——, gas, number needed, [85], [87]
—— of gas fires, [78]
——, regulating, [89]
Burning kitchen waste without causing smell, [49]
Burns, [785]
Bursting water-pipes, [846]
Butter, [156]
——, churning, [157]
——, English, inferior, [157]
——, keeping, [113]
——, making, English faults, [157]
——, ——, Normandy, [158]
——, potting, [159]
——, putting up, [158]
——, rancid, [159]
—— room, [156]
——, testing, [520]
—— yield, [156]
Buttered biscuits, [212]
—— jack (drink), [193]
—— lobster, [283]
Buttermilk creams, [403]
Butters, [460]
Buttonhole patch, [892]

Buying clothes, [714]
—— fish, [565], [566], [567], [569], [570], [571], [573], [575]
—— fruit, [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [572], [573], [576]
—— game, [565], [566], [568], [569], [571], [573], [574], [575]
—— meat, [563], [565], [567], [569], [570], [572], [575]
—— poultry, [565], [566], [568], [569], [571], [573], [575]
—— vegetables, [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [572], [573], [574], [576]
Cabbage, [565], [570], [573]
——, boiled, [373]
——, cold slaugh, [374]
——, hot slaugh, [374]
——, keeping, [114]
——, pickling, [132]
——, red, [379]
—— salad, [383], [484]
—— soup, [264]
——, stuffed, [374]
Cabinet pudding, [393]
Cacao cordial, [183]
Cakes, [210]
——, almond, [210]
——, almond Savoy, [210]
——, Banbury, [210]
——, Bath, [211]
——, Bordeaux, [211]
——, breakfast, [211]
——, bride, [211], [216]
——, cheese, [212]
——, cinnamon, currant, and caraway, [212]
——, curd cheese, [213]
——, Derby, [213]
——, farls, [215]
——, fish, [269]
——, ginger, [213]
——, iced, [442]
——, lemon cheese, [214]
——, Lord Mayor’s, [214]
——, lunch, [214]
——, Madeira, [214]
——, mothering, [219]
——, oatmeal, [214]
——, plum, [215]
——, pound, [216]
——, Prussian, [216]
——, Queen’s, [217]
——, rice pound, [217]
——, rout, [217]
——, Savoy, [218]
——, school, [214]
——, seed, [218]
——, Shrewsbury, [218]
——, Simnel, [219]
——, sponge, [219]
——, tea, [219]
——, twelfth, [216], [220]
——, Venice, [220]
——, Yorkshire, [220]
——, Yule, [220]
Calcium sulphide in luminous paint, [83]
Calecannon, [378]
Caledonian cream, [398]
Calendering machine, [858]
Calf’s brains, [337]
—— —— and tongue, [337]
—— feet, [337]
—— —— fritters, [337]
—— —— jelly, [338]
—— —— pie, [338]
—— —— pudding, [338]
—— head,

[338]
—— ——, boiled, [338]
Calf’s head, carving, [626]
—— —— fritters, [339]
—— ——, hashed, [339]
—— —— pie, [339]
—— —— soup, [248]
—— liver, [339]
—— sweetbread, [343]
Californian Gamblers, [679]
Calisthenics, [867]
Calls, [102]
Calomel, [778]
Caloric engine, [951]
Calorigen stove, [78]
Cambridge pudding, [398]
Camembert cheese, [165]
Camphor liniment, [778]
Canadian dishes, [486]
Canary pudding, [398]
Candied chestnuts, [437]
—— lemon peel, [144]
Candles, [83]
——, blowing out, [83]
——, silver torch, [83]
Candying syrups, [175]
Canvas-back duck, [565]
Canvas joining, [893]
Cape dishes, [487]
Caper sauce, [462]
Capercailzie, [565], [581]
——, carving, [633]
Capillaire syrup, [176]
Capsicum flavour, [478]
Captain’s biscuits, [212]
Caramel custards, [398]
—— pudding, [399]
Caraway cordial, [183]
Carbide of iron filter, [29]
Carbocalcis filters, [29]
Carbolic acid poisoning, [793]
Carbonate magnesia, [778]
Carcel lamp, [83]
Card sleights, [667]
Cardinal (drink), [193]
Cardoons, [579], [582]
——, boiled, [374]
Carnival krapfen, [489]
Carp, [273], [580]
—— au bleu, [273]
——, broiled, [273]
—— en matelote, [273]
—— in brown sauce, [273]
—— pie, [274]
——, roast, [274]
——, soused, [274]
——, stewed, [274]
—— with Polish sauce, [274]
Carpet joining, [894]
—— lining, [96]
—— made into oilcloth, [524]
——, sweeping, [525]
Carpets, [96]
——, bedroom, [101]
——, cleaning, [524]
——, sickroom, [756]
Carriage, care of, [913]
Carrot jam, [140]
—— pudding, [399]
—— salad, [383]
—— soup, [248]
Carrots, [568], [569], [570], [573], [579], [582]
—— à la Flamande, [374]
—— à la maître d’hôtel, [374]
—— à la Nivernaise, [374]
Carrying infants, [749]
—— injured persons, [787]
Carving, [620]
—— beef, [622]
—— blackcock, [632]
—— calf’s head, [626]
—— capercailzie, [633]
—— cod, [620]
Carving duck, [629]
—— fish, [620]
—— flounders, [621]
—— fowl, [628]
—— game, [630]
—— goose, [630]
—— grouse, [632]
—— guinea fowl, [630]
—— gurnet, [621]
—— haddock, [621]
—— ham, [627]
—— hare, [631]
—— herring, [621]
—— John Dory, [621]
—— lamb, [625]
—— landrail, [631]
—— loin of mutton, [625]
—— mackerel, [621]
—— meat, [622]
—— mullet, [621]
—— mutton, [624]
—— odd dishes, [627]
—— partridge, [632]
—— pheasant, [632]
—— pigeon, [630]
—— plover, [631]
—— pork, [627]
—— poultry, [628]
—— ptarmigan, [633]
—— rabbit, [630]
—— salmon, [621]
—— sheep’s head, [627]
—— shell-fish, [622]
—— snipe, [631]
—— sole, [622]
—— sucking pig, [627]
—— turbot, [622]
—— turkey, [629]
—— veal, [626]
—— venison, [625]
—— whiting, [622]
—— wild fowl, [631]
—— woodcock, [630]
Carving-knife, wielding, [627]
Cask stand, [168]
Casks, cleaning, [169]
Cast-iron cisterns, [19]
—— drains, [54]
—— ——, joining, [54]
Castle pudding, [399]
Castor oil, [778]
—— —— as an aperient, [805]
Catching complaints, [813]
Catsup, [134]
Caucasian dress, [742]
Caudles, [773]
Cauliflower, [372], [570], [573], [576], [579]
——, dressed, [373]
—— salad, [383]
—— soup, [249]
Causes of fires, [108]
Caustic poisoning, [793]
Cavalier’s broil, [331]
Cavershed fish, [514]
Caviar and eggs, [450]
Cavies, [356]
Cavity walls, [5]
Cedrat cordial, [183]
—— essence, [178]
Ceilings, [7], [99]
—— blackened by gas, [85]
——, dairy, [155]
——, nursery, [746]
Celeriac, boiled, [374]
Celery, [565], [582]
——, boiled, [374]
—— cordial, [183]
—— flavour, [478]
—— on toast, [374]
—— salad, [383]
—— sauce, [462]

Celery soup, [249]
——, stewed, [375]
Cellars, [168]
——, curing damp in, [9]
——, disinfecting after floods, [55]
——, ventilating, [168]
Cement, fireproof, [232]
Cemented cisterns, [19]
Cerkestal, [511]
Cesspools, [38]
—— and wells, [14]
Chablis cup, [193]
Chachki, [496]
Chaff beds, [701]
Chair rail, [99]
Chairs, drawing-room, [97]
Chalk as fuel, [82]
Chamberland filter, [32]
Chamois leather, cleaning, [534]
Champagne beer, [179]
—— cider, [171]
—— cup, [193]
——, sham, [204]
Chancery, [689]
Changing sheets, [759]
Chapatis, [497]
Chapman’s entire wheat flour, [751]
Chapped hands, [797]
Char, [570]
——, potted, [126]
Character of servant, [960]
Charcoal as a filter, [23]
—— filters, [27]
Charity Girl dress, [735]
Charlotte Russe, [399]
Chartreuse, [183]
Chaudeau sauce, [462]
Chaudfroid sauce, [462]
Cheap fuel, [82]
—— soups, [249]
Cheddar cheese, [164]
Cheese, [159]
——, arnotto for colouring, [159]
——, baked, [444]
—— biscuits, [445], [481]
——, blue vinney, [164]
——, boiled, [445]
——, Bondon, [166]
—— boulettes, [445]
——, Brie, [166]
——, British, [164]
—— cake, [212]
——, Camembert, [165]
—— canapés, [445]
——, cheddar, [164]
——, Cheshire, [164]
——, colour for, [159]
——, colouring, [163]
——, Cottenham, [164]
——, cracks in, [163]
——, cream, [160]
—— cream, [446]
—— custard, [445]
——, Daventry, [164]
——, defects in, [163]
——, Derbyshire, [165]
—— dishes, [444]
——, double Dorset, [164]
——, dunlop, [165]
——, Dutch, [166]
——, eating, [634]
——, foreign, [165]
—— fritters, [446]
——, Gloucester, [165]
——, Gorgonzola, [166]
——, Gruyère, [166]
——, heaving, [163]
——, holes in, [163]
——, keeping, [113]
——, Leicester, [165]
——, macaroni, [414]
Cheese making in France, [163]
——, marbling, [163]
——, Marolles, [166]
—— meringues, [446]
——, milk for, [159]
——, moulds in, [161]
——, Neufchatel, [166]
——, new-milk, [160]
——, North Wilts, [165]
—— omelets, [454]
——, Parmesan, [166]
——, peach, [421]
——, Pont l’évêque, [166]
——, Port du Salut, [167]
——, potato, [446]
——, potted, [446]
—— pudding, [417]
—— puffs, [447]
—— ramakins, [447]
——, rankness, [164]
——, rennet for, [159]
——, ripening, [161]
——, roasted, [448]
——, Roquefort, [167]
——, rush cream, [160]
——, sage, [160]
—— sandwiches, [448]
—— scallop, [448]
——, Schabzieger, [167]
—— soufflé, [448]
—— soup, [261]
——, stewed, [448]
——, Stilton, [165]
——, Stracchino, [166]
—— straws, [448]
——, surface, [163]
——, sweating, [163]
—— tartlets, [449]
——, texture, [163]
—— toast, [449]
——, tomato, [449]
Chelsea buns, [212]
Chemical experiments, [674]
Chemicals for heating, [82]
Cherries, [572], [574]
——, bottled, [140]
——, dried, [140]
——, keeping, [117]
——, preserved, [141]
Cherry bitters, [181]
—— bounce, [183]
—— brandy, [184], [193]
—— cordial, [184]
—— flavour, [479]
—— jam, [137], [141]
—— jelly, [399]
—— pudding, [400]
—— ratafia, [184]
—— sauce, [462]
—— soup, [250], [490]
—— tart, [400]
—— water ice, [442]
Cheshire cheese, [164]
Chestnut and truffle stuffing, [477]
—— compote, [400]
—— cream, [400]
—— mould, [492]
—— pudding, [400], [506]
—— sauce, [462]
—— soup, [250]
—— stuffing, [367], [463]
Chestnuts, [579]
——, candied, [437]
Chicken, see Fowl
—— broth, [769]
—— carving, [628]
—— country captain, [497]
—— curry, [497]
——, Malay, [500]
—— soup 250
Chicken-pox, [813]
Chickens, [923]
Chiffonade soup, [267]
Chilblains, [798]
Children’s diet, [596]
Chimney cowls, [59]
——, smoky, [80]
——, ventilating by, [57]
Chimneys affecting ventilation pipes, [43]
——, place of, [43]
Chinaman dress, [731]
Chinks in floors, stopping, [56]
—— —— windows, stopping, [56]
Chintzes, cleaning, [549]
Chip goods, cleaning, [522]
Chloral hydrate poisoning, [792]
Chlorate of potash, [778]
Chloric ether, [778]
Chloride of mercury poisoning, [793]
Chlorodyne poisoning, [793]
Chloroform, [778], [792]
Chocolate blancmange, [400]
—— creams, [438]
—— ice cream, [442]
—— icing, [442]
—— pudding, [400]
—— soup, [490]
—— strudels, [401]
Choking, [790]
Choosing furniture, [97]
Chorizos, [510]
Chotodriec, [507]
Chow-Chow, [482]
Chowder, [270], [482]
Christmas dinners, [640]
—— plum pudding, [423]
Chub, [274]
——, baked, [274]
——, broiled, [274]
——, roast, [274]
Churning butter, [157]
Churns, [158]
Chutney, [132]
Cider, [194]
—— brandy, [182]
——, champagne, [171]
—— cup, [194]
Cigar smoking, [606]
Cigarette smoking, [607]
Cinder tennis courts, [881]
Cinderella dance refreshments, [647]
Cinnamon brandy, [184]
—— buns, [212]
—— cordial, [184]
——, currant, and caraway cake, [212]
—— flavour, [479]
—— sauce, [463]
Circuit closer for electric bell, [103]
Circulation system for hot water, [80]
Cistern filters, [33]
—— in roof, [43]
—— pipes, trapping, [44]
—— waste pipes, [19]
Cisterns for water,

[18]
—— —— w.c.’s, [44]
——, rain-water, [15], [16]
——, water contaminated in, [39]
Citrate of iron and quinine, [778]
—— —— magnesia, [778]
Citron cordial, [184]
—— pudding, [401]
Citronelle cordial, [184]
Citrons, preserved, [141]
Clairet cordial, [184]
Clam fritters, [482]
Claret cup, [194]
—— jelly, [401]
Clarges Street pudding, [401]
Clarifying stock, [246]
Clarke’s nightlights, [83]

Clary wine, [195]
Clay as fuel, [82]
Cleaning, [521]
—— alabaster, [536]
—— bed ticks, [549]
—— bone, [533]
—— books, [541]
—— bottles, [170], [531]
—— brass, [536], [537]
—— bronze, [537]
—— carpets, [524]
—— casks, [169]
—— chamois leather, [534]
—— chintzes, [549]
—— chip goods, [522]
—— coins, [538]
—— coloured dresses, [549]
—— copper, [537]
—— copper electros, [538]
—— copper vessels, [538]
—— crape scarfs, [549]
—— decanters, [532]
—— feathers, [522]
—— fenders, [523]
—— firearms, [523]
—— flannels, [549]
—— floorcloth, [524]
—— floors, [527]
—— frames, [545]
—— furniture, [528]
—— furs, [528]
—— gas chandeliers, [538]
—— gilt mountings, [538]
—— glass articles, [529]
—— glass globes, [530]
—— glass slides, [531]
—— gloves, [532]
—— gold, [538]
—— hands, [533]
—— iron, [538]
—— ivory, [533]
—— lace, [551]
—— leather goods, [534]
—— linen, [547]
—— linoleum, [524]
—— marble, [535]
—— metal goods, [536]
—— milk vessels, [154], [156], [158]
—— mirrors, [529]
—— morocco leather, [534]
—— oilcloth, [524]
—— paint, [540]
—— paint brushes, [541]
—— paper, [541]
—— parchment, [542]
—— photographic plates, [530]
—— pictures, [542]
—— plate, [539]
—— plated goods, [539]
—— plaster, [535]
—— prints, [543]
—— range flues, [224]
—— rugs, [528]
—— saddles, [534]
—— saucepans, [237]
—— scale pans, [537]
—— sheepskins, [529]
—— sickroom, [755]
—— silk goods, [552]
—— silver goods, [539]
—— silver lace, [540]
—— skins, [528]
—— sponge, [545]
—— steel, [538]
—— stone, [535]
—— straw goods, [522]
—— stuffed specimens, [547]
—— teapot, [547]
—— textile goods, [547]
—— tobacco pipes, [555]
—— vellum, [542]
Cleaning violin, [555]
—— violin bow, [556]
—— wall-papers, [556]
—— watches, [556]
—— windows, [529]
—— zinc vessels, [540]
Clear butter, [463]
—— soup, [251]
—— —— with custard, [252]
—— —— —— poached eggs, [252]
—— —— —— quenelles, [252]
—— stock, [245]
Clifton pudding, [401]
Clinical thermometer, [764]
Clockwork motors, [954]
Close-fire ranges, [222]
Close-fire stoves, [71]
Closets, disinfecting, [821]
——, situation, [7]
Clothes, buying, [714]
——, choosing, [714]
—— for foreign schools, [717]
—— of infectious patient, [815]
—— stores, [100]
Clothing, disinfecting, [818]
——, intermediate, [710]
—— of children, [746]
——, requirements of, [709]
Clotted cream, [403]
Cloudy beer, brightening, [179]
Clove brandy, [184]
—— cordial, [184]
—— pink ratafia, [184]
Clown and Fairies, [682]
Clustering gas lights, [86]
Coach house, [913]
Coalfish, [573]
Coals, buying, [581]
—— for kitcheners, [226]
Cocido, [510]
Cock-a-leekie soup, [253]
Cockle stove, [71]
Cockle soup, [253]
Cockles, [271], [580]
Cocoa as a drink, [605]
—— jelly, [770]
—— ratafia, [184]
——, testing, [521]
Coconut cakes, [514]
—— candy, [438]
—— ice, [442]
—— matting, [97]
—— pudding, [401], [497]
—— soup, [253], [497]
Cod, [275], [503]
—— au gratin, [275]
——, baked, [275]
—— balls, [486]
——, boiled, [275]
—— brandade, [276]
——, buying, [565], [566], [567], [570], [576], [578], [580], [582]
——, carving, [620]
——, fried, [275]
—— liver oil, taking, [777]
——, mashed salt, [276]
—— rock, [276]
—— roe, [276]
—— sauté, [277]
—— sound, [277]
—— steaks, [277]
——, stewed, [277]
——, twice laid, [277]
—— with cream, [277]
Coffee, [480]
—— as a drink, [605]
—— cakes, [401]
—— cream, [402]
—— flavour, [479]
—— ice cream, [443]
—— —— pudding, [402]
Coffee jelly, [402], [770]
—— making, [481]
—— pots, [481]
—— pudding, [402]
—— ratafia, [184]
—— roasting, [480]
—— testing, [521]
Cognac bitters, [181]
Coil pipes for heating, [81]
Coils for bells, [106]
Coin sleights, [665]
Coins, cleaning, [538]
Coke, [581]
—— for kitcheners, [226]
Colbert soup, [267]
Colchester bread, [212]
Cold, applying to the head, [762]
—— baths, [828]
—— climates, windows for, [60]
—— drinks and indigestion, [603]
—— feet, [798]
—— meat sauce, [463]
—— slaugh, [374]
—— water for freshening air of rooms, [56]
—— weather diet, [595]
—— wine caudle, [773]
Colds, [799]
Collar ironer, [858]
Collared beef, [125]
—— eels, [279]
College pudding, [402]
Collops of tinned meat, [307]
Colonial outfits, [722]
Coloured walls, [99]
Colouring cheese, [159]
—— gravy, [469]
Coltsfoot wine, [195]
Combing the hair, [810]
Combustion, [61]
Common complaints, [794]
Concrete floors, [7]
—— tennis courts, [882]
Condé soup, [256]
Condensed milk, [596]
Condy’s fluid for removing taint from meat, [113]
Confectionery, [437]
Conger-eel soup, [253]
Conger eels, [278]
—— ——, broiled, [278]
——, buying, [565], [566], [573]
Conservative pudding, [402]
Conservatory, aspect for, [3]
Constantine’s convoluted stove, [74]
—— “treasure” range, [229]
Constipation, [803]
Construction of dwellings, [4]
Consumption, [805]
Conti soup, [257]
Convoluted stoves, [74]
Convulsions, [788]
Cookery, processes of, [240]
Cookies, [486]
Cooking by gas, [235]
—— —— oil, [237]
—— —— steam, [233]
—— ranges, see Kitchen ranges.
—— smells, [243]
Cooling air of room, [59]
—— milk, [113]
—— milk-pans, [154], [155], [156], [158]
—— wine, [191]
Copper, cleaning, [537]
—— electros, cleaning, [538]
—— stewpans, [238]
—— vessels, cleaning, [538]
——, washing, [848]
Corach, [463]
Cordials, [181]
Coriander cordial, [184]

—— flavour, [479]
Corking, [170]
Corks, preserving, [171]
—— selecting, [170]
Corn beer, [195]
—— bread loaf, [486]
—— flour, buying, [578]
—— meal muffins, [486]
—— salad, [570]
Corned beef, [125]
Cornices, [99]
Cornish pasties, [402]
Corns, [806]
Corpse, disinfecting, [820]
Correspondence, [649]
Corrosive sublimate poisoning, [793]
Cottage beer, [195]
—— pie, [402]
—— pudding, [402]
Cottager’s dance, [652]
Cottenham cheese, [164]
Coughs, [799]
Counter-hemmed patch, [890]
Country captain, [348], [497]
Court plaster, [762]
Cow-heel, [310]
Cow-house, [916]
Cowls for ventilating, [59]
Cows, [915]
——, breeds, [915]
——, choosing, [915]
——, keeping, [915]
——, tethering, [917]
Cowslip syrup, [195]
—— wine, [195]
Crab-apple cheese, [403]
—— jam, [141]
—— jelly, [141]
Crab-apples, preserved, [141]
Crab backs, [514]
Crab, [277], [580]
——, browned, [277]
——, buying, [565], [570]
——, devilled, [278]
——, dressed, [277]
Cracknel biscuits, [212]
Cramp, [830]
Cranberries, preserved, [142]
Cranberry jelly, [403]
—— tart, [403]
Crape scarfs, cleaning, [549]
Crayfish, [278], [573], [576]
—— soup, [253]
Cream as food, [600]
—— cake, apple, [389]
—— caudle, [774]
—— cheese, [160]
——, clotted, [403]
——, Devonshire, [155]
—— jars, [156]
—— mead, [196]
—— ratafia, [184]
——, ripening, [157]
—— sauce, [463]
——, scalded, [403]
——, Swiss, [156]
——, syrup, [176]
—— toast, [486]
—— waffles 487
——, whipped, [403]
—— yields, [156]
Cream-of-tartar, [778]
Creams, [769]
Crécy soup, [248]
Crême de Brie cheese, [166]
—— —— macarons cordial, [185]
—— —— Naphe cordial, [185]
—— des Barbades cordial, [185]
—— d’orange cordial, [185]
Creosote poisoning, [793]
Cresses, [565]
Cretonnes, [98]
Cricket grounds, [874]
Crickets, destroying, [558]
Croccante, [503]
Crockery, noiseless, [756]
Cromartie burner, [91]
Croquettes of fish, [270]
Crossing darn, [899]
Croûte au pot, [254]
Cruisie lamp, [83]
Crullers, [486]
Crumpets, [212]
Crust soup, [254]
Crystal Palace pudding, [404]
Cucumber salad, [384]
—— sauce, [482]
Cucumbers, [565], [568], [573]
——, pickled, [133]
——, preserved, [142]
Cuff ironer, [858]
Cupboards, [99]
——, bedroom, [98]
Curaçao, [185]
—— cordial, [185]
—— jelly, [404]
Curd cheese cake, [213]
Curing foods, [123]
Curlew, [566], [568]
Curling tongs, [809]
Currant jelly, [404]
—— ratafia, [185]
—— syrup, [176]
—— wine, [196]
Currants, [572], [574], [582]
——, bottling, [138]
——, keeping, [117]
Currie powders, [463]
Curried eggs, [452]
—— fowl, [348]
—— rabbits, [364]
—— sardines, [296]
—— veal, [339]
Curries, [498]
Curry, fish, [270]
——, Persian,

[502]
Curtains, [98]
——, bedroom, [101]
——, nursery, [746]
——, sickroom, [756]
Cussy soup, [260]
Custard apples, [568]
—— sauce, [465]
—— soup, [254]
Custards, [404]
Cutlets, fish, [270]
Cut-outs for electric light, [95]
Cuts, [788]
Cyanide of potassium poisoning, [792]
Cycling, [886]
Cygnet, [347]
D Traps, [45], [46]
Dab, [278]
Dace, [278], [580]
——, boiled, [278]
——, stewed, [278]
Dachpappe roof, [6]
Dairy, [154]
——, aspect for, [3]
——, building, [154]
——, butter, [156]
——, —— room, [156]
——, —— yield, [156]
——, ceiling, [155]
——, cheese, [159]
——, churning, [157]
——, churns, [158]
——, cooling, [154], [158]
——, cream jars, [156]
——, cream yield, [156]
——, directions for, [158]
—— door, [155]
—— farming as an industry, [158]
—— floor, [154]
——, literature, [167]
——, milk pans, [154], [155], [156], [158]
——, position, [154], [158]
——, proportions, [154]
——, quality of milk, [156]
——, shelves, [154]
——, skimming milk, [156]
——, temperature, [154]
—— utensils, washing, [154], [156], [158]
——, ventilation, [154]
—— walls, [154]
—— windows, [155]
Dal-puri, [498]
Dame Trot dress, [731]
Damp cellar, curing, [9]
—— course, [5]
Dampers of kitchen ranges, [224]
Dampness in dwellings, [4]
Dam-pukht, [498]
—— of duck, [498]
Damson cheese, [404]
—— wine, [196]
Damsons, [579]
——, bottled, [142]
Dance refreshments, [647]
Dances, old-fashioned, [652]
Dancing floors, [651]
Dandelion tea, [196]
Dandelions, [375]
Dandriff, [707], [809]
Danish jelly, [405]
Darned patch, [891]
Darning, [895]
Dash wheel, [854]
Date pudding, [405]
Daventry cheese, [164]
Davey’s safety motor, [946]
Davis’s gas cooker, [236]
Dawes’s window fastener, [108]
Daylight, [82]
—— reflectors, [83]
Dead, disinfecting, [820]
Deadly nightshade poisoning, [792]
Decanters, cleaning, [532]
December gardening, [935]
—— markets, [581]
Decorating, [95]
—— bedrooms, [101]
—— ceilings, [99]
—— kitchen walls, [96]
—— walls, [99]
—— windows, [100]
Decorticated meal, [594]
Decoudun ironer, [856]
Deep-well pump, [22]
Defects in cheese, [163]
—— —— sanitation, detecting, [40]
Defries safety lamp, [84]
Derby cake, [213]
Derbyshire cheese, [165]
Desks, [862]
Dessert, eating, [635]
Destroying vermin, [556]
Detecting defects in sanitation, [40]
—— fire, [109]
Devil sauce, [465]
Devilled crab, [278]
—— fowl, [349]
—— kidneys, [321]
—— mackerel, [286]
—— oysters, [289]
—— salmon, [295]
—— sardines, [296]
—— turkey, [367]
Devonshire cream, [155]
—— junket, [155]
Dhall curry, [499]

Dhurries, [98]
Diagonal darn, [896]
Diarrhœa, [806]
Dicke milch, [490]
Diet bread, [213]
Dietetics, [583]
Digestibility of foods, [589]
Digestive foods, [774]
Dilapidations, law of, [957]
Dimity curtains, [98]
Dingy pudding, [490]
Dining room, [583]
—— ——, aspect for, [3]
—— —— furniture, [98]
—— —— literature, [647]
Dinner, laying, [613]
—— wines, [641]
Dinners, bills of fare, [635]
——, Christmas, [640]
——, etiquette of, [633]
——, Lenten, [639]
——, vegetarian, [639]
Diphtheria, [814]
Diplomatic pudding, [405]
Dipstone trap, [52]
Dip traps, [38]
Dircksian phantasmagoria, [676]
Direct-action closets 47, [48]
Disagreeable odours, removing from hands, [533]
Discharge of waste pipes, [44]
—— pipes, [38]
Disconnecting chambers, [51]
—— —— for drains, [42]
—— gullies, [18]
—— traps, [51]
Disinfecting ashpits, [50]
—— cellars after floods, [55]
Disinfection, [817]
Dislocations, [808]
Distress for rent, [956]
Dog bites, [781]
Dogs and burglars, [108]
Dolma Hindi, [511]
Dolmas, [512]
Domestic motors, [936]
—— remedies, [717]
—— safety lamps, [84]
—— system of electric light, [93]
Dominoes, [690]
Doopiazeh curry, [500]
Door, dairy, [155]
Dorée cordial, [185]
Dorset, double, cheese, [164]
Dotterel, [580]
Double Dorset cheese, [164]
—— filter cistern, [34]
—— Gloucester cheese, [165]
—— square darn, [896]
—— windows, [60], [83]
Doubtful Visitor, [683]
Dough, curing sour, [208]
Dover’s powder, [778]
Down draughts from chimneys, [43]
Dow’s range, [230]
Draining walls, [5]
Drains, [51]
—— admitting sewer gas, [39]
——, bad joints in, [40]
——, brick, [51]
——, cast-iron, [54]
——, course of, [52]
——, dipstone trap for, [52]
——, disconnecting, [42]
——, dry laid, [52]
——, faults in, [54]
——, flap trap in, [54]
——, foul air from, [52]
——, house, [35]
——, inspection by vestry, [54]
——, —— chambers in, [54]
——, joints in, [52]
——, main, [51]
——, manholes in, [52]
——, pipe, [52]
——, rats in, [51], [53]
——, removing grease from, [50]
——, slope for, [38]
——, stoneware, [52]
——, stopped, [38], [50]
——, testing, [40], [52]
——, ventilation of, [38]
Draught, sluggish, [80]
——, want of, in ranges, [225]
Draughts, avoiding, [55]
——, excluding, [56]
Drawing room, [648]
—— ——, aspect for, [3]
—— —— chairs, [97]
—— —— etiquette, [648]
—— —— tables, [97]
Draw-off pipes, [44]
Draw sheet, [759]
Dresdener torte, [490]
Dress, [709]
——, fancy, [728]
—— for the moors, [722]
—— —— walking tour, [722]
—— —— yacht, [722]
——, lawn tennis, [722]
——, taste in, [714]
——, travelling, [721]
Dressed cauliflower, [373]
—— crab, [277]
—— sardines, [296]
—— whiting, [306]
Dresses, coloured, cleaning, [549]
Dressing fish, [268]
Dressing-gowns, [708]
—— -jackets, [708]
—— -room, [706]
Dried cherries, [140]
—— haddock, [280]
—— turtle soup, [267]
Drinking in hot weather, [603]
—— liqueurs, [635]
—— -water, [519]
—— - —— cisterns, [45]
—— - —— taps, [45]
—— - ——, test for, [24]
—— wine, [635]
Drinks, [602]
——, aerated, [171]
—— for invalids, [774]
—— summer, [205]
Dripping paste, [421]
——, turned, [112]
Driving, [911]
Drop biscuits, [213]
Dropped stitch, [900]
Drops, [213]
Drowning, [788]
Drum principle in warming, [76]
Drunkard’s Dream, [682]
Dry laid drains, [52]
—— ratafia, [185]
Drying bottles, [170]
——flooded houses, [54]
—— -room, [856]
Duck, carving, [629]
——, dam-pukht, [498]
——, roast, [347]
——, stewed, [347]
Ducks, [347], [566], [569], [571], [573], [578], [580]
——, keeping, [925]
Duckweed and non-potable water, [604]
Duel, [680]
Dunlop cheese, [165]
Duplex safety lamps, [84]
Dutch cheese, [166]
—— dishes, [487]
Dutch dress, [728], [735]
—— sauce, [466]
Dwellings, airing, [7]
——, aspect, [2]
——, back-to-back, [7]
——, bathroom, [49]
——, bells, [102]
——, calls, [102]
——, chemically heating, [82]
——, construction, [3]
——, dampness in, [4]
——, decoration, [95]
——, drains, [52]
——, excluding snakes from, [8]
——, floors, [7], [96]
——, foundation, [4]
——, furniture, [95]
——, general arrangements, [7]
——, heating by steam, [81], [82]
——, heating by water at high pressure, [81]
——, housemaid’s sink, [45]
——, in earthquake countries, [10]
——, lighting, [82]
——, prospect, [2]
——, pumps, [20]
——, reducing echoes, [8]
——, roof, [5]
——, sanitation, [35]
——, sinks, [50]
——, site, [1]
——, situation of closet, [7]
——, soil, [1]
——, supplementary literature, [111]
——, thieves, [108]
——, trees around, [2]
——, ventilation, [55]
——, warming, [60]
——, water cisterns, [18], [43]
——, water closets, [45]
——, water pipes, [19], [44]
——, waterproofing walls, [8]
——, water purification, [24]
——, water supply, [12]
Dysentery, [806]
Dyspepsia, [812]
Eagle Bottom Grate, [223]
Ear complaints, [808]
Earth closets, [48]
Earthenware cooking vessels, [239]
—— cream jars condemned, [156]
Earthquake countries, building in, [10]
Earwigs, destroying, [558]
Eating cheese, [634]
—— dessert, [635]
—— entrées, [633]
—— fish, [633]
—— fruit, [635]
—— game, [633]
—— ices, [635]
—— poultry, [633]
—— salad, [635]
—— savouries, [634]
—— soup, [633]
—— vegetables, [634]
Echoes, reducing, [8]
Eclat grate, [70]
Economising kitchen heat, [76]
Eczema, [823]
Eels, [278], [568], [571], [573], [578], [580]
——, broiled, [278]
——, collared, [279]
——, fricassée, [279]
——, fried, [279]
——, galantine, [279]

——, matelote, [279]
——, patties, [487]
——, pie, [279]
——, roast, [279]
——, stewed, [279]
Egg balls, [267]
——, boiling, [241]
—— bread, [452]
—— dishes, [450]
—— dumplings, [490]
—— flip, [196]
—— lemonade, [774]
—— nogg, [454]
—— pie, [482]
—— purée, [457]
—— rolls, [457]
—— salad, [384]
—— sauce, [466]
—— snow, [458]
—— —— pudding, [405]
Egg-plant fruit, [375]
Eggs à la bonne femme, [450]
—— à la maître d’hôtel, [450]
—— à la Tartuffe, [450]
—— and artichokes, [450]
—— —— caviar, [450]
—— —— mushrooms, [451]
—— —— olives, [451]
—— —— sorrel, [451]
—— —— tomatoes, [451]
—— as food,

[600]
—— au gratin, [451]
——, baked, [452]
——, buttered, [452]
——, choosing, [572]
——, curried, [452]
——, devilled, [453]
—— en matelote, [453]
——, forced, [453]
——, formation of, [920]
——, fried, [453]
—— in cases, [454]
——, keeping, [113], [118]
——, laying, [921]
——, omelets, [454]
——, packing, [924]
——, poached, [457]
——, savoury, [458]
——, scalloped, [458]
——, Scotch, [458]
——, scrambled, [458]
——, setting, [921]
——, stewed, [459]
——, stuffed, [459]
—— sur plat, [459]
——, Swiss, [459]
——, testing, [922]
Egyptian pudding, [405]
Eingemacht melonen, [120]
Elder chutney, [133]
—— ketchup, [134]
Elderberry wine, [197]
Elder-flower wine, [197]
Electric bell, circuit closer, [103]
—— —— making, [106]
—— —— wire, [102]
—— bells, [102]
—— coil, [765]
—— lighting, [93]
—— ——, accumulators, [94]
—— ——, arrangement, [93]
—— ——, bichromate pile, [93]
—— ——, cut-outs, [95]
—— ——, globes, [95]
—— ——, lamps, [94]
—— ——, switches, [95]
—— motors, [953]
Electro-magnet for bell, [106]
Elixir vitæ cordial, [185]
Ellis’s cabinet Turkish bath, [832]
Elva, [512]
Emerald green poisoning, [793]
Emergencies, [780]
Empress rice, [429]
Enamelled saucepans, [238]
Endive, [565], [570], [572], [582]
—— salad, [384]
Enemas, [764]
Enemata, [764]
English butter inferior, [157]
—— rarebit, [449]
Entrées, eating, [633]
Epicurean sauce, [467]
Epsom salts, [778]
Eruptions, febrile, [813]
Erysipelas, [813]
Escaping from fire, [109]
Essence bitters, [181]
—— of bark, [778]
—— —— camphor, [778]
—— —— cedrat, [178]
—— —— ginger, [778]
—— —— lemons, [178]
—— —— orange, [178]
—— —— peppermint, [778]
—— —— raspberry, [179]
—— —— strawberry, [179]
Essences for aerated waters, [178]
Essential oil of almonds poisoning, [792]
Etena zarvatte, [512]
Ether poisoning, [792]
Etiquette of dining, [633]
—— —— drawing room, [648]
—— —— luncheons, [641]
—— —— teas, [642]
Etna cement, [233]
Eton pudding, [405]
Eureka gas cooker, [235]
—— oil stove, [79]
Evening milk, [156]
Evils of brick drains, [52]
Excluding draughts, [56]
Excreta, disinfecting, [817]
Excuses, making, [651]
Executions by axe or guillotine, [683]
Exercise, aim of, [870]
—— and feeding, [602]
——, regulation of, [871]
Exercising infants, [748]
Expectorants for coughs, [802]
Explosions of lamps, [84]
Extinguishing fire, [109]
Extract Bishop cordial, [185]
—— punch cordial, [186]
Eye complaints, [808]
Face paints, [654]
Fainting, [790]
Fairy butter, [467]
Falkland pudding, [405]
Fancy breads, [210]
—— dresses, [728]
Farls, [215]
Farmyard, [907]
——, books, [929]
Fat, keeping, [112]
—— rascals, [405]
Fattening, [602]
Faubonne soup, [267]
Faults in drains, [54]
Feather beds, [701]
Feathers, [98]
—— cleaning, [522]
February gardening, [931]
—— markets, [565]
Feeding, [583]
——, artificial, [598]
—— bottles, [751]
—— children, [750]
—— patients, [768]
Feeding the weak, [597]
Feet, cold, [798]
Felt roof, [6]
Fenders, cleaning, [523]
Fennel sauce, [467]
Fermentation of fruit syrups, preventing, [175]
Fermenting wine, [190]
Ferments in cheese, [161]
Fevers, [813]
Fig pudding, [405]
Figs, [574]
——, keeping, [118]
——, preserved, [142]
Filbert biscuits, [213]
Filter, pail, [26]
Filtering cisterns, [33]
—— tank for rain-water, [16]
—— ventilators, [57]
—— water, [16], [23]
Filters, animal charcoal, [21], [27]
——, carbo-calcis, [29]
——, care of, [24]
——, charcoal, [27]
——, construction of, [26]
——, gravel and sand, [26]
——, iron, [30]
——, magnetic carbide, [29]
——, manganese-charcoal, [29]
——, neglect of, [24]
——, objects of, [25]
——, porous pottery, [32]
——, silicated carbon, [28]
——, spongy iron, [24], [30]
——, wood charcoal, [23], [27]
Filtration, objects of, [25]
Fine drawing, [895]
—— herbs sauce, [467]
Finger glasses, [635]
Finings for beer, [180]
Fire accidents, [111]
——, causes of, [108]
——, checking, [109]
——, detection, [109]
——, escaping from, [109]
——, extinguishing, [109]
—— for ventilation, [55]
—— in sick room, [755]
—— insurance, [962]
—— lighting, [64]
——, saving life at, [110]
—— scenes, [659]
Firearms, cleaning, [523]
Fire-bricks, [232]
Fireproof cement, [232]
Fireproofing garments, [111]
Fish, [268]
——, as food, [599]
——, baking, [268]
——, boiling, [268]
——, broiling, [268]
——, boudin, [269]
——, bouillabaisse, [269]
——, buying, [565], [566], [567], [569], [570] 571, [573], [575], [578], [580], [582]
—— cakes, [269]
——, carving, [620]
——, chowder, [270]
—— croquettes, [270]
—— curry, [270]
—— cutlets, [270]
——, dressing, [263]
——, eating, [633]
——, fried, [505]
——, frying, [268]
—— jelly, [270]
——, keeping, [113]
—— moolie, [270], [499]
—— omelet, [270]
—— patties, [271]
——, pickled, [503]

—— pilau, [500]
—— pudding, [271]
——, pulled, [271]
—— quenelles, [271]
—— roe sauce, [482]
—— salad, [271], [384]
—— sauce, [467]
——, smoking, [124]
—— stewed with egg and lemon sauce, [505]
——, stewing, [269]
—— stock, [246]
—— toast, [271]
Fisherwoman of Zuider Zee dress, [723]
Fits, [790]
Fixtures, law of, [957]
Flag floors, [7]
Flamande sauce, [484]
Flannel patch, [892]
—— strengthening patch, [892]
Flannels, cleaning, [549]
Flap-trap in drains, [54]
Flat flame gas burners, [87]
Flats, pipes from, [49]
Flavours, [478]
Fleas, destroying, [558]
Flemish costume, [742]
—— soup, [254]
Fletcher’s gas cooker, [236]
Flickering gas, [85]
Flies, destroying, [558]
Floating bodies, experiments with, [673]
Flock-paper, [97]
Floods, precautions after, [54]
——, wells contaminated by, [55]
Floor, bedroom, [101], [699]
—— coverings, [96]
——, dairy, [154]
——, nursery, [746]
Floorcloth, [97]
——, cleaning, [524]
——, washing, [97]
Floors, [96]
——, cleaning, [527]
——, concrete, [7]
——, dancing, [651]
——, flag, [7]
—— of dwellings, [7]
——, stained, [96]
——, stopping chinks in, [56]
—— tile, [7]
——, varnished wood, [7]
——, varnishing, [96]
——, wood, [7]
Flounder, [279]
——, water souchet, [280]
Flounders, buying, [565], [566], [569], [570], [571], [573]
——, carving, [621]
Flour, buying, [566]
——, composition, [593]
—— for bread, [208]
—— gruel, [769]
——, keeping, [114]
Flower garden, [930]
Flowers in bedroom, [700]
Flues, [79]
——, cleaning, [224]
Flummery, [405], [427], [490]
Flushing w.c.’s, [48]
Fly, [514]
Fly-paper poisoning, [793]
Foam sauce, [472]
Folding serviettes, [617]
Fomentations, [763]
Food, flesh-forming, [587]
——, function, [586]
——, heat-producing, [587]
——, quality needed, [583]
——, quantity needed, [583]
Foods, animal, [591]
——, curing, [123]
——, digestibility, [589]
——, grain, [592]
——, infants’, [751]
——, keeping fresh, [112]
——, nutritive values, [588]
——, sickroom, [768]
——, smoking, [123]
——, testing, [519]
——, vegetable, [591]
Fool’s parsley poisoning, [792]
Football, [875]
Fop dress, [735]
Forced eggs, [453]
Forcemeat, [468]
—— balls, [259]
—— for turkey, [368]
Force-pump, [22]
Foreign cheeses, [165]
—— dishes, [481]
—— nursemaids, [754]
—— outfits, [722]
—— school clothes, [717]
—— schools, [868]
Fou-fou soup, [514]
Foul air from drains, [52]
Foundation of dwellings, [4]
Four-fruit ratafia, [186]
Fowl, [347]
——, boiled, [347]
——, boning, [349], [350]
——, braised drumsticks, [347]
——, carving, [628]
——, chaudfroid, [347]
——, cold, [348]
——, country captain, [348]
——, curried, [348]
—— cutlets, [348]
——, devilled, [349]
——, fillets, [349]
——, fricassée, [349]
——, galantine, [350]
——, grilled legs, [351]
——, old hen, [351]
——, panada, [352]
—— pilau, [501]
——, poos-pass, [352]
——, roast, [352]
—— salad, [352]
—— soufflé, [353]
——, stewed, [353]
——, stuffed, [511]
——, timballe, [353]
——, vol au vent, [353]
Fowls, breeds, [919]
——, buying, [565], [566], [569], [570], [571], [573], [578], [580], [581]
——, chickens, [923]
——, fatting, [923]
——, formation of egg, [920]
——, house, [919]
——, incubators, [922]
——, laying, [921]
——, packing eggs, [924]
——, setting eggs, [921]
——, sitting, [922]
——, testing eggs, [922]
Foxglove poisoning, [792]
Frames, cleaning, [545]
France, cheese-making in, [163]
Franchise, [962]
Freezing-machines, [440]
—— -powders, [440]
French bean salad, [384]
—— beans, [375], [569], [573], [574]
—— ——, keeping, [114], [118]
—— cognac bitters, [181]
—— Farmer’s wife dress, [745]
—— lady of Henry I. dress, [742]
—— pie, [406]
—— plums, [582]
—— rolls, [213]
—— soup, [254]
Fresh air, [55]
—— ——, warming, [77]
Freshening air of rooms, [56]
Friar’s balsam, [778]
Fricadel, [490]
Friesland dress, [735]
Frieze,

[99]
Frijoles, [406]
Frizzled beef, [311]
Frostbite, [791]
Frost in pipes, [846]
Frothed milk soup, [491]
—— wine soup, [491]
Frozen meat, cooking, [306]
—— water pipes, [846]
Fruit, bottling, [138]
——, buying, [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [572], [573], [576], [579], [582]
—— compote, [406]
—— creams, [406]
——, eating, [635]
—— for jam, [572]
—— —— wine, [190]
—— in jelly, [406]
——, keeping, [114], [115]
—— macédoine, [406]
—— pilau, [501]
—— pudding, [407]
—— store, [115]
—— syrups, preventing fermentation, [175]
—— tart, [407]
—— trifle, [407]
Fruits, [591]
Frying, [242]
—— basket, [239], [243]
—— batter, [407]
—— fish, [268]
—— pans, [239]
Fuel, chalk, [82]
——, cheap, [82]
——, clay, [82]
—— economisers, [63]
——, economising, [82]
—— for kitcheners, [226]
—— —— smoke-curing, [125]
——, hints on, [82]
Function of food, [586]
Fur, cleaning, [528]
——, joining, [893]
Furnace, hot-air, [75]
Furniture, [95]
——, bedroom, [98], [101]
——, boudoir, [98]
——, chairs, [97]
——, choosing, [97]
——, cleaning, [528]
——, dining-room, [98]
——, disinfecting, [819]
——, healthy, [97]
——, landings, [98]
——, morning room, [98]
——, nursery, [101], [746]
——, ottoman, [98]
——, plush velvet, [93]
—— polish poisoning, [793]
——, second-hand, [97]
——, sickroom, [755]
——, sideboards, [98]
——, sofas, [98]
——, tables, [97]
——, Utrecht velvet, [98]
Galoni, [503]
Galton grate, [67]
—— —— back, [65]
Galvanic coil, [765]

Galvanised iron cisterns, [19], [44]
—— —— water pipes, [19]
Game aspic, [344]
—— boudin, [345]
——, buying, [565], [566], [568], [569], [571], [573], [574], [575], [578], [580], [581]
——, carving, [630]
—— chaudfroid, [345]
——, cooking, [344]
—— croquettes, [345]
—— croustades, [345]
——, eating, [633]
——, hanging, [344]
——, keeping, [113]
—— kromeskies, [345]
—— pie, [346]
—— salad, [384]
—— sauce, [345]
—— soup, [254]
—— vol au vent, [346]
Games, indoor, [686]
——, outdoor, [872]
Garden, [930]
——, books, [935]
Gardeners’ calendar, [930]
Garibaldi cream, [408]
Garters, [711]
Gas as a ventilator, [87], [90]
—— burners, argand, [87]
—— ——, bad, [85], [87]
—— ——, capacity of, [86], [87]
—— ——, flat flame, [87]
—— ——, kinds of, [85], [87]
—— ——, number needed, [85], [87]
—— burning, ventilator essential, [85]
——, ceilings blackened by, [85]
—— chandeliers, cleaning, [533]
—— cooking, [235]
—— engines, [947]
—— fires, burners, [78]
—— fittings, [85]
—— flames, Howorth’s blade for, [89]
—— ——, Spencer corona for, [90]
—— —— flickering, [85]
——, flow of, [85]
——, globe light, [90]
—— globes, [86]
—— governors, [88]
——, heating by, [77]
—— hot-air stove, [78]
——, illuminating power of, [85]
——, incandescent, [90], [91]
——, law of, [958]
—— leaks, finding, [92]
—— lighting, [85]
—— —— methods, [90]
—— lights, clustering, [86]
—— making apparatus, [93]
—— oven, [208]
—— pendants, [86]
—— pipes, [85]
—— ——, siphon in, [85]
—— ——, testing, [92]
—— ——, water in, [85]
——, regenerative, [90]
——, regulating, [88]
—— —— burners, [89]
——, sun burner, [90]
——, turning out, [85]
—— wall brackets, [86]
——, warming by, [77]
Gascony butter, [468]
Gaspacho, [511]
Geese, buying, [565], [566], [568], [569], [571], [573], [575], [578], [580], [581]
——, keeping, [926]
——, smoked, [130]
Gem cooking range, [229]
Génoise pastry, [408]
Gentlemen of Henry VI. dress, [742]
German darn, [898]
—— dishes, [489]
—— stoves, [74]
—— yeast, [208]
Germs in water, [23]
Geyser, [78]
Gherkin sauce, [468]
Gherkins, pickled, [133]
Ghezon, [513]
Ghost of China, [684]
Ghosts, [676]
Giblet soup, [254]
Gill stoves, [73]
Gilt mirrors, [93]
—— mountings, cleaning, [538]
Gin sling, [198]
Ginger ale, [171]
—— beer, [171], [197]
—— —— knot, [170]
—— brandy, [186], [198]
—— cake, [213]
—— champagne, [172]
—— cordial, [186]
—— cream, [408]
—— flavour, [479]
—— ice cream, [443]
——, preserved, [142]
—— pudding, [408]
—— syrup, [176]
—— wine, [198]
Gingerade, [171]
Gingerbread pudding, [408]
——, Queen’s, [217]
——, spice, [219]
——, thick, [219]
Gipsy’s Promise, [680]
Glass articles, cleaning, [529]
—— globes, cleaning, [530]
—— —— for gas, [86]
—— lined water pipes, [20]
—— louvres for ventilating, [56]
——, removing grease from, [531]
——, —— paint from, [531]
—— slides, cleaning, [531]
Glaze, turkey, [367]
Glazed stoneware sinks, [45]
—— tiles in passage, [96]
Glazes, [468]
Glazing pressed beef, [313]
Globe light, [90]
Globes, electric, [95]
—— for gas, [86]
Gloucester cheese, [165]
Gloves, [713]
——, cleaning, [532]
Glow-wine cordial, [185]
Glycerine, [778]
Gnats, [559]
Gniocchi of semolina, [503]
—— soup, [255]
Godfrey’s cordial poisoning, [793]
Godwit, [566]
Gold, cleaning, [538]
—— cordial, [186]
Golden plover, buying, [565], [566], [568]
Goose, [353]
——, carving, [630]
—— liver patty, [353]
—— pie, [354]
——, roast, [353]
Gooseberries, [572], [574]
——, bottled, [142]
——, bottling, [138]
——, keeping, [119]
Gooseberry cheese, [408]
—— chutney, [133]
—— cordial, [189]
—— cream, [409]
—— flavour, [479]
—— fool, [409]
—— jam, [137], [143]
—— jelly, [143]
—— pancakes, [409]
—— pudding, [409]
—— tart, [409]
—— wine, [199]
Gorgonzola cheese, [166]
Goslings, [568], [569], [570], [571]
Goulard’s extract, [778]
Governor’s sauce, [468]
Grafting, [900]
Grain foods, [592]
Grape flavour, [479]
—— jam, [142]
—— jelly, [143]
—— leaves, pickled, [133]
—— syrup, [176]
Grapes, [565], [568], [569], [574], [579], [582]
—— keeping, [116], [119]
——, pickled, [133]
Grass matting, [97]
Grasse nuts, [506]
Grates, open, [61], [65]
——, principles, [61]
——, rules for, [62]
——, underfed, [71]
——, varieties, [61]
Gratings for rain-water pipes, [18]
Gravel filters, [26]
Gravies, [460]
Gravy, [468]
——, colouring, [469]
—— for turkey, [368]
—— soup, [255]
—— stock, [246]
Grayling, [280]
——, stewed, [280]
Grease in drains, removing, [50]
——, removing from glass, [531]
—— stains from carpet, [526]
—— ——, removing, [553]
—— traps, [39], [51]
Greek dress, [742], [745]
Green butter, [469]
—— corn soup, [255]
—— gooseberry chutney, [133]
—— pea salad, [385]
—— —— soup, [255]
—— peas, keeping, [119]
Greenall’s steam washer, [848]
Greengage soufflé, [409]
—— tart, [409]
—— wine, [199]
Greengages, [574]
Greenhouse, stove for, [72], [73]
Greenroom Riot, [681]
Greens, [485]
Gregory’s powder, [778]
Grenoble ratafia, [186]
Grey mullet, [286]
—— ——, boiled, [286]
—— ——, broiled, [287]
—— —— in jelly, [287]
—— ——, stewed, [287]
—— powder, [778]
Grill sauce, [469]
Grilled kidneys, [322]
—— legs of fowl, [351]
—— mackerel, [286]
—— salmon, [295]
—— sardines, [297]
—— trout, [302]
—— turkey leg, [368]
—— wild fowl, [371]
Grilling, [241]
—— stoves, [233]
Grills, [233]
Grimston regenerative gas burner, [91]
Groat gruel, [410]
—— pudding, [410], [491]
Groceries, buying, [574], [577]
Grooms, [909]

Groundnut cakes, [515]
Ground rice pudding, [410]
Ground water, [2]
Grouse, [354]
——, American, [565]
——, braised, [355]
——, broiled, [355]
——, buying, [565], [566], [574], [580]
——, carving, [632]
——, larded, [355]
——, roast, [355]
——, salmis, [354]
—— soup, [255], [354]
Gruels, [410], [769], [772]
Grütze, [491]
Gruyère cheese, [166]
Guava jelly, [143]
Gudgeon, [280]
Guinea fowls, [566], [568], [569], [570], [573]
—— ——, carving, [630]
—— pigs, [356]
Gulasch, [491]
Gum arabic water, [775]
Gumbo filet, [482]
Gullies, trapped, for sinks, [50]
Gurnet, [280], [569], [570]
——, baked, [280]
——, carving, [621]
—— with caper sauce, [280]
Gurney stove, [73]
Gurney’s gas ventilator, [87]
Gutters for rain-water, [17], [42]
Gymnastics, [867]
Haag’s Motor, [940]
Haddock, [280]
——, boiled, [280]
——, broiled, [280]
——, buying, [565], [566], [567], [573], [578], [580]
——, carving, [621]
——, dried, [280]
—— in jelly, [280]
Hæmorrhage, [78]
Hager’s test for water, [25]
Haggis, [319]
Hair, care of,

[707]
—— complaints, [809]
—— dyes, [810]
—— washes, [810]
Hake, [280]
——, buying, [565], [573]
——, roast, [280]
——, stewed, [280]
Half-hogshead of ale, [179]
Halibut, [280]
——, buying, [565], [569]
Hall curtains, [98]
Ham, beef, [125]
——, boiled, [334]
——, boned, [334]
——, buying, [575]
—— cake, [334]
——, carving, [627]
——, mutton, [128]
—— omelet, [334]
——, salted, [127]
—— sandwiches, [334]
—— steaks, [483]
—— toast, [335]
——, Westphalia loaves, [335]
Hamburgh beef, [127]
—— bitters, [181]
Hand seen writing, [680]
Hand-shaking, [648]
Hands, cleaning, [533]
——, washing, [706]
Hanging poultry and game, [344]
Hansen’s rennet extract, [160]
Hard sauce, [472]
—— water, [519]
Harding’s ventilator, [57]
Hare, [356], [565], [566], [568], [578], [581]
——, carving, [631]
——, fillets, [356]
——, jugged, [356]
——, roast, [357]
——, salmis, [358]
——, shape, [358]
—— soup, [255]
Hargreave’s gas regulator, [89]
Haricot bean omelets, [455]
—— beans, [375]
—— mutton, [320]
—— soup, [256]
Harvest bugs, [559]
Harvey sauce, [469]
Hashed beef, [311]
—— calf’s head, [339]
—— mutton, [320]
—— turbot, [304]
—— veal, [340]
—— venison, [370]
Hasty pudding, [410]
Haunch of venison, roast, [369]
Haunted hut, [682]
—— man, [678]
Head, applying cold to, [762]
Headaches, [811]
Head-gear, [713]
Healthy furniture, [97]
Heat, causes of, [61]
——, conserving in rooms, [60]
——, economising kitchen, [76]
—— lost by windows, [60]
Heating, see Warming
Hemlock poisoning, [792]
Hen, old, [351]
Henbane poisoning, [792]
Heran’s gas regulator burner, [89]
Herb soup, [256]
Herring, [580]
——, carving, [621]
—— salad, [487]
——, soup, [256]
Herrings, [281]
——, buying, [565], [566], [569], [570], [573], [576]
——, fried, [281]
——, rolled, [281]
——, salted, [127]
——, smoking, [124]
Hickory nut flavour, [479]
High ground for dwellings, [1]
—— pressure water heating, [81]
—— teas, [645]
Hinks’s safety lamp, [84]
Hints on fuel, [82]
Hip jam, [144]
—— marmalade, [144]
Hips in sugar, [144]
—— in vinegar, [144]
——, pickled, [144]
——, preserved, [144]
Hiring horses, [912]
Hochepot soup, [260]
Hockey, [876]
Holed soil pipes, [38]
Hollands’ underfed grate, [71]
Home washing, [848]
Hominy, [410], [594]
Honey, keeping, [119]
Honigküchen, [491]
Hop beer, [199]
—— cordial, [186]
Hopkinson’s window fastener, [108]
Horehound beer, [199]
Horse, [907]
——, buying, [907]
——, choosing, [907]
——, cleaning, [910]
——, driving, [911]
——, hiring, [912]
——, keeping, [908]
——, stables, [910]
Horsehair mattress, [701]
Horse-power, [944]
Horseradish sauce, [469]
Hot-air baths, [831]
—— - —— engine, [951]
—— - —— furnace, [75]
—— - —— pipes, [76]
—— baths, [830]
—— cross buns, [213]
—— milk, [773]
—— plate ranges, [222]
—— slaugh, [374]
—— water circulation, [80]
—— —— cisterns, [832]
—— —— heating, [80]
—— —— in dyspepsia, [812]
—— —— pipes, [832]
—— —— ——, joining, [81]
—— —— system, [832]
—— weather diet, [595]
—— wine caudle, [774]
Hotchpotch, [256]
Houghton’s trap, [51]
House, determination of tenancy, [957]
—— drains, [35]
—— gutters, [17]
——, insanitary, law of, [955]
—— letting and renting, [955]
——, possession, [956]
——, rent, [956]
—— repairs, law, [956]
Housekeeping, [563]
Household law, [955]
Housemaid’s sink, [45]
Housewife’s room, [518]
Howorth’s blade for gas flames, [89]
Huile de Venus cordial, [186]
Hulett’s gas regulator, [89]
Hullvah, [499]
Hung beef, [311]
Hungarian beef, [128]
Hunter’s soup, [256]
Hydraulic engines, [939]
—— rams, [939]
Hydrochloric acid poisoning, [793]
Hydro-extractor, [854]
—— - —— for skimming milk, [156]
Hypnotics, [704]
Ice, cake, [442]
——, choosing, [440]
—— houses, [114]
——, keeping, [114], [440]
—— puddings, [387], [411]
—— soufflé, [411]
Ices, [440]
——, colouring, [441]
——, eating, [635]
——, flavouring, [441]
——, freezing, [440]
——, moulding, [441]
——, serving, [644]
——, syrup, [441]
Ill-drained house, [36]
Illness of infants, [753]
—— —— servants, [960]
Illuminating power of gas, [85]
Illusions and tricks, [664]
Imitation koumiss, [776]
Imperceptible darn, [897]
Imperial pop, [199]
—— soup, [256]
—— syrup, [177]
Impure air, testing, [55]
Incandescent asbestos stoves, [77]
—— gas, [90], [91]

Incubators, [922]
Indian dhurries, [98]
—— dishes, [495]
—— matting, [97]
—— outfit, [724]
—— toffee, [499]
Indigestion, [812]
—— and cold drinks, [603]
—— caused by tea, [605]
Indoor games, [686]
Infants, airing, [748]
——, carrying, [749]
—— clothing, [746]
—— diet, [596]
—— disorders, [753]
——, exercising, [748]
——, feeding, [750]
—— feeding-bottles, [751]
—— foods, [751]
——, moral training, [753]
—— rooms, [746]
—— sleep, [749]
—— teething, [752]
——, washing, [748]
——, weaning, [750]
Infection, how conveyed, [814]
Infectious diseases, [813]
Ingle nook grate, [68]
Injections, [764]
Injured persons, carrying, [787]
Ink stains, removing, [554]
Insanitary house, law of, [955]
Insect bites, [780]
—— powder, [557]
Insects, destroying, [556]
—— eating corks, preventing, [171]
Inspection chambers in drains, [54]
—— of drains by vestry, [54]
Insurance, [962]
Intermediate clothing, [710]
Invalids’ bed-making, [758]
—— pulley, [760]
Invitations, answering, [650]
Iodine poisoning, [793]
Ipecacuanha powder, [778]
—— wine, [778]
Irish moss water, [776]
—— stew, [307], [321]
Iron cisterns, [19]
——, cleaning, [538]
—— filters, [30]
—— flue ranges, [221]
—— saucepans, [237]
—— water pipes, [19]
Ironing, [548]
—— machine, [856]
—— stove, [859]
Irritant poisons, [793]
Isolating infectious cases, [815]
Italian bread, [214]
—— dishes, [503]
—— dress, [728], [742]
—— soup, [257]
Itching, [824]
Ivory, cleaning, [533]
Jacob’s ladder, [900]
Jeffrey’s grate, [65]
Jalapine, [778]
Jal-frizi, [499]
Jam pudding, [411]
—— roll, [412]
—— sauce, [469]
—— tartlets, [412]
Jamaica jelly, [411]
Jams, [137]
——, apple, [139]
——, blackberry, [137], [139]
——, black currant, [137]
——, carrot, [140]
——, cherry, [137], [141]
——, crab-apple, [141]
——, gooseberry, [137], [143]
——, grape, [143]
——, hip, [144]
——, keeping, [137]
——, mulberry, [146]
——, peach, [148]
——, pineapple, [148]
——, plum, [149]
——, pumpkin, [150]
——, raspberry, [137]
——, red currant, [137]
——, rhubarb, [151]
——, quince, [150]
——, strawberry, [137], [152]
Jane Seymour coil, [735]
January gardening, [930]
—— markets, [563]
Jellies, [137], [769]
——, apple, [139]
——, blackberry, [140]
——, black currant, [140]
——, crab-apple, [141]
——, gooseberry, [143]
——, grape, [143]
——, guava, [143]
——, medlar, [145]
——, mulberry, [146]
——, orange, [146]
——, pear, [148]
——, pineapple, [148]
——, prune, [149]
——, quince, [150]
——, raspberry, [151]
——, red currant, [151]
——, rhubarb, [151]
——, rowan, [152]
——, strawberry, [152]
Jelly baskets, [412]
——, fish, [270]
—— pie, [412]
Jennings and Hinde’s iron filters, [32]
Jennings’s closets, [48]
Jersey wonders, [412]
Jerusalem artichoke salad, [383]
—— —— soup, [261]
—— artichokes, [376], [565]
Jewish dishes, [504]
—— dress, [731]
John Dory, [281], [573], [576], [578]
—— ——, carving, [621]
—— ——, stuffed, [281]
—— —— with caper sauce, [281]
Johnny cake, [486]
Joining, [892]
—— cast-iron drains, [54]
—— hot-water pipes, [81]
Joints as food, [599]
Joints, bad, in drains, [40]
—— in drains, [40], [52]
—— in soil pipes, [49]
Jubilee dance, [653]
Judge dress, [735]
Juditha, [505]
Jugged hare, [356]
Julienne soup, [257]
July gardening, [93]
—— markets, [572]
Jumbles, [388], [412]
June gardening, [933]
—— markets, [570]
Juniper ratafia, [186]
Junket, [155]
Juries, [961]
Kabaps, [512]
Kabrac dolmassi, [512]
Kamptulicon, [97]
Kedgeree, [429], [500]
Keeping apples, [114], [115], [116]
—— apricots, [121]
—— artichokes, [117]
—— asparagus, [117]
—— boiled potatoes, [113]
—— bread, [113]
—— butter, [113]
—— cabbage, [114]
—— cheese, [113]
—— cherries, [117]
—— currants, [117], [119]
—— eggs, [113], [118]
—— fat, [112]
—— figs, [118]
—— filberts, [118]
—— fish, [113]
—— flour, [114]
—— foods fresh, [112]
—— French beans, [114], [118]
—— fruit, [114], [115]
—— game, [113]
—— gooseberries, [119]
—— grapes, [116], [119]
—— green peas, [119]
—— honey, [119]
—— ice, [114],

[440]
—— jams, [137]
—— lemon juice, [120]
—— lemons, [114], [120]
—— macaroni, [114]
—— meal, [114]
—— meat, [112]
—— melons, [120]
—— milk, [113]
—— mushrooms, [120]
—— nectarines, [121]
—— onions, [115]
—— oranges, [114]
—— peaches, [121]
—— pears, [114], [115], [116]
—— peas, [119]
—— pineapples, [121]
—— plums, [121]
—— poultry, [113]
—— roots, [113], [122]
—— rowan berries, [122]
—— sago, [114]
—— semolina, [114]
—— soup, [113]
—— —— bones, [112]
—— spinach, [113]
—— suet, [112]
—— syrups, [175]
—— tomatoes, [122]
—— truffles, [122]
—— vegetable marrows, [114], [122]
—— vegetables, [113]
—— walnuts, [123]
Keg filter, [34]
Kensington grate, [70]
Ketchup, [134]
——, time for making, [573]
Khabob Hoossainee, [500]
Khabobs, [500]
Kid gloves, cleaning, [532]
Kidderminster carpets, [97]
Kidney, beef, [311]
—— soup, [257]
—— toast, [322]
Kidneys, [321]
—— à la maître d’hôtel, [321]
——, devilled, [321]
——, fried, [321]
——, grilled, [322]
——, stewed, [322]
King Henry’s shoestrings, [413]
Kinnear’s gas regulator burner, [89]
Kippered salmon, [129]
Kippers, [128]
Kirschwasser cordial, [186]
Kitchen, aspect for, [3]

——, basting, [241]
—— boilers, [832]
——, boiling, [241]
——, braising, [242]
——, cooking in ovens, [224]
—— fire economiser, [64]
—— fittings, [221]
——, frying, [242]
——, —— -basket, [239]
——, —— -pans, [239]
——, grilling, [241]
—— heat, economising, [76]
——, literature, [517]
—— odours, [243]
——, oven-roasting, [224]
——, pans, [237]
——, pots, [237]
—— ranges, [221]
—— ——, Arnott’s ventilator for, [226]
—— ——, baking ovens, [222]
—— ——, blowers, [222]
—— ——, brick-flue, [221]
—— ——, Brown and Green’s, [228]
—— ——, cleaning flues, [224]
—— ——, close-fire, [222]
—— ——, dampers, [224]
—— ——, Dow’s, [230]
—— ——, Eagle, [227]
—— ——, Eagle grill, [233]
—— ——, Eureka, [235]
—— ——, fire-bricks, [232]
—— ——, fireproof cement, [232]
—— ——, Fletcher’s, [236]
—— ——, fuels for, [226]
—— ——, gas, [235]
—— ——, gem, [229]
—— ——, grilling, [233]
—— ——, hot-plate, [222]
—— ——, iron-flue, [221]
—— ——, Leamington, [222], [228]
—— ——, management, [225]
—— ——, Metropolitan, [236]
—— ——, Mistress, [231]
—— ——, Nonpareil, [236]
—— ——, oil, [237]
—— ——, open-fire, [222]
—— ——, oven ventilators, [224]
—— ——, Rippingille’s, [237]
—— ——, setting, [221]
—— ——, Sine qua non, [230]
—— ——, steam, [233]
—— ——, steam boiler, [234]
—— ——, Thorncliffe, [228]
—— ——, Treasure, [229]
—— ——, want of draught in, [225]
—— ——, water-pans, [224]
—— ——, Wilson, [229]
—— ——, Yorkshire, [231]
——, roasting, [240]
——, saucepans, [237]
—— sink, [50]
—— soups, [244]
——, stewing, [242]
—— walls, [96]
—— waste, [49]
——, water-bath, [242]
Kitcheners, [222]
Kneading bread, [209]
Knee-breeches, [711]
Knödeln, [491]
Knotting corks down, [170]
Köche, [491]
Koch’s gelatine-peptone test water, [25]
Koumiss, imitation, [776]
Kourabiedes, [512]
Krapfen, [489]
Kräplen, [492]
Krausen-beer, [179]
Kufté, [512]
Kümmel cordial, [186]
Laburnum poisoning, [792]
Lace, cleaning, [551]
—— patch, [897]
Laced joining, [894]
Lacrosse, [877]
Ladies’ leggings, [713]
Lady Doran Strathspey dance, [653]
—— of Henry VI. dress, [735]
—— —— James I. dress, [742]
—— —— Tangiers dress, [735]
Lamb, [567], [569], [570], [573]
——, carving, [625]
—— cutlets, [319]
—— pie, [322]
——, roast quarter, [326]
——, saddle, [326]
Lambs’ tails, [322]
Lamperns, [281]
——, stewed, [281]
Lamprey, [282]
——, baked, [282]
Lamps, Carcel, [83]
——, cruisie, [83]
——, duplex safety, [84]
——, electric, [94]
——, explosions of, [84]
——, mineral oil, [84]
——, moderator, [83]
——, oil, [83]
—— ——, pressure, [83]
—— ——, suction, [83]
——, petroleum, [84]
——, safety, for houses, [84]
——, Silber, [83]
—— spirit, [83]
Landings, [98]
Landrail, carving, [631]
Larded grouse, [355]
—— pike, [292]
Larder, [112]
——, aspect for, [3]
——, shelves, [96]
Lark pie, [359]
Larks, [358], [565], [566], [581]
——, baked, [360]
——, broiled, [358]
——, croustade, [358]
—— in cases, [358]
——, potted, [359]
——, roast, [359]
——, stewed, [359]
——, stuffed, [360]
——, vol au vent, [360]
Laudanum, [779]
Laundry, [848]
Laurel water poisoning, [792]
Laver, [376]
Law, domestic, [955]
—— of breakages, [961]
—— —— character, [960]
—— —— determination of tenancy, [957]
—— —— dilapidations, [957]
—— —— distress, [956]
—— —— fixtures, [957]
—— —— franchise, [962]
—— —— gas, [958]
—— —— insanitary house, [955]
—— —— insurance, [962]
—— —— juries, [961]
—— —— nuisance, [962]
—— —— parochial matters, [960]
—— —— possession, [956]
—— —— rates and taxes, [957]
—— —— rent, [956]
—— —— renting and letting house, [955]
—— —— repairs, [956]
—— —— servants, [959]
—— —— the house, [955]
—— —— wages, [959]
—— —— water, [958]
Lawn, [930]
—— bowls, [879]
—— party refreshments, [647]
—— skittles, [879]
—— sleeve (drink), [199]
—— tennis courts, [879]
—— —— dress, [722]
Laying eggs, [921]
—— table, [607]
Lead dissolved by rain-water, [17]
—— -encased block-tin pipes, [20]
—— poisoning, [793]
Leaded joints for iron pipes, [54]
Leaden cisterns, [19], [44]
—— pipes eaten by rats, [53]
—— sinks, [45]
—— soil pipes, [38]
—— suction pipes, [21]
—— water pipes, [19]
Leaks of gas, finding, [92]
Leamington range, [222], [228]
Leather, cleaning, [534]
Lebkuchen, [492]
Leche crema, [413]
Leclanché battery, [102]
Leeches, [763]
Leek soup, [257]
Leeks, [565], [582]
—— with oil, [513]
Leg of mutton, [323]
—— —— ——, boiled, [323]
—— —— ——, braised, [323]
—— —— ——, roast, [323]
Legendary Saint’s Martyrdom, [683]
Leggings, [713]
Leicester cheese, [165]
Lemon and parsley sauce, [488]
—— beer, [200]
—— biscuits, [214]
—— cheese cake, [214]
—— cordial, [186]
—— cream, [413]
—— dumplings, [413]
——, essence, [178]
—— flavour, [479]
—— juice, [775]
—— ——, keeping, [120]
—— marmalade, [144]
—— peel, candied, [144]
——, prickled, [134]
—— pudding, [413]
—— sauce for fish, [483]
—— shrub (drink), [200]
—— soufflé, [413]
—— sponge, [413]
—— syrup, [177]
—— toast, [413]
—— water ice, [443]
—— whey, [200]
Lemonade, [172], [199]
——, still, [205]
——, tonic, [173]
Lemons, [574]
——, keeping, [114], [120]
Lenten dinners, [639]
Lentil pudding, [414]
—— soup, [257]
Lentils, [376]
Leoni’s gas cooker, [236]
Letter-writing, [649]
Letting a house, [955]
Lettuce, [565], [570], [572]
—— salad, [385]
—— soup, [258]
Levantine dishes, [505]
Leveret, [573]
Library, [903]
——, aspect for, [3]
Liebig’s beef tea, [258]
Life, saving, at fires, [110]
Lift and force pump, [22]

Lift pump, [20]
Light in sickroom, [756]
Lighting, [82]
——, albo-carbon lamp, [92]
——, candles, [83]
——, candlestick, [83]
——, curing steam on windows, [83]
——, daylight, [82]
——, —— reflectors, [83]
——, electric, [93]
——, finding gas leaks, [92]
—— fires, [64]
——, gas, [85]
——, —— regulators, [88]
——, globe light, [90]
——, incandescent gas burners, [91]
——, luminous paints, [83]
——, matches, [93]
——, nightlights, [83]
——, oil lamps, [83]
——, phosphorus, [93]
——, regenerative gas burners, [91]
——, silver torch, [83]
——, sun burner, [90]
——, testing gas pipes, [92]
——, window area, [82]
Lightning stroke, [791]
Lime in eyes, [808]
Lime-juice cordial, [186]
Lime-water, [779]
Limes, preserved, [145]
Linen, cleaning, [547]
Ling, [282], [565], [573], [580]
Linoleum, [97]
Linseed poultice, [761]
—— tea, [200], [775]
Liqueurs, [181]
——, drinking, [635]
Liquodilla cordial, [186]
Liquorice powder, [779]
Little Grannie’s dress, [731]
Liver sauce, [470]
—— soup, [258]
Lobster, [282]
—— à la St. Malo, [282]
—— à l’enfant prodigue, [282]
—— au gratin, [282]
——, boiled, [283]
——, broiled, [283]
——, buttered, [283]
——, buying, [565], [567], [570], [571], [580]
—— cream, [283]
—— croquettes, [283]
—— croustades, [283]
—— curry, [284]
—— cutlets, [284]
—— kromeskies, [284]
—— omelet, [284]
——, roast, [283]
—— salad, [284], [385]
—— sandwiches, [284]
—— sauce, [470]
—— soufflé, [284]
—— soup, [258]
——, stewed, [285]
Loin of mutton, [323]
—— —— ——, braised, [323]
—— —— ——, carving, [625]
—— —— ——, stewed, [323]
—— —— veal, [337]
Lokma, [512]
London argand burner, [91]
Lord Mayor’s cake, [214]
Loss of voice, [803]
Lovage cordial, [186]
Lovelock’s mincing machine, [599]
Loving cup, [200]
Low ground for dwellings, [1]
Luminous paints, [83]
Lunch cake, [214]
Luncheons, [641]
——, laying, [610]
Macalpine washer, [851]

Macaroni au gratin, [414]
——, boiled, [414]
—— cheese, [414]
——, keeping, [114]
—— omelet, [455]
—— pie, [414]
—— pudding, [414]
—— soufflé, [414]
—— soup, [258]
—— timbale, [415]
—— with tomato sauce, [415]
Macaroons, [214]
Macedonian dress, [742]
Mackerel, [285], [485], [566], [568], [569], [570], [573]
——, baked, [285]
——, boiled, [285]
——, broiled, [285]
——, carving, [621]
——, devilled, [286]
—— fillets, [286]
—— fricassée, [286]
——, grilled, [286]
—— roes, [286]
——, salted, [128]
——, smoking, [124]
Made ground, [2]
Madeira cake, [214]
Magnetic carbide filter, [29]
Maidservant of Henry VI. dress, [742]
Maignen’s filters, [29]
Main drains, [51]
Maître d’hôtel butter, [470]
Maize meal, [594]
Making beds, [702]
—— electric bell, [106]
Making up, [654]
Malagatani soup, [500]
Malay chicken, [500]
Malliorca d’Espagne cordial, [186]
Malt liquors as drinks, [606]
——, weevil in, [180]
Malvern pudding, [145]
Manchester grate, [66]
—— pudding, [416]
Mandarin delight cordial, [186]
Manganese-charcoal filter, [29]
Mango chutney, [132]
Mangold-wurzel beer, [200]
Manholes in drains, [52]
Maple syrup, [177]
Maraschino jelly, [416]
—— liqueur, [187]
Marble, cleaning, [535]
March gardening, [931]
—— markets, [567]
Margot pudding, [416]
Marien cakes, [492]
Marigold wine, [200]
Marketing, [563]
Marlborough pudding, [416]
—— tart, [416]
Marmalade, apple, [139]
——, hip, [144]
——, lemon, [144]
——, orange, [146]
—— pudding, [416]
——, quince, [150]
——, rhubarb and orange, [152]
—— sauce, [470]
Marolles cheese, [166]
Marsh-Greenall gas stove, [78]
Marzipan, [439], [492]
Mashed potatoes, [378]
—— salt cod, [276]
Match poison, [793]
Matches, [93]
——, paint defaced by, [93]
——, substitute for, [93]
Matso cakes, [505]
—— diet bread, [505]
Matting, [97]
—— seams, [894]
Mawbery, [515]
May drink, [200]
—— gardening, [932]
—— markets, [569]
Mead, [196], [200]
Meadow saffron poisoning, [792]
Meal, keeping, [114]
Measles, [813]
Measures for medicines, [777]
Meat, [306]
——, buying, [563], [565], [567], [569], [570], [572], [575], [578], [580], [581]
——, carving, [622]
——, frozen, cooking, [306]
——, keeping, [112]
—— salad, [385]
——, tinned, cooking, [307]
——, turned, [112]
Mecklenburg dress, [739]
Medical coil, making, [765]
Medicines, administering, [776]
——, classes of, [777]
——, domestic, [777]
——, doses, [777]
——, keeping safely, [776]
——, measures, [777]
——, nursery, [753]
——, removing taste of, [777]
——, times for taking, [777]
Medlar jelly, [145]
Medlars, [565]
Mellin’s extract, [752]
Melon flavour, [479]
Melons, [569], [574], [576], [577], [582]
——, keeping, [120]
——, preserved, [146]
Melted butter, [470]
Mental training, [865]
Mercury poisoning, [793]
Meringues, [417], [446]
Metal gas burners, [85], [87]
—— goods, cleaning, [536]
Metallic roofing, [7]
Metamorphoses, [682]
Metropolitan gas kitchener, [236]
Mezereum poisoning, [793]
Micro-organisms in water, [23]
Mikado moth papers, [561]
Mildew stains, removing, [554]
Milk as food, [600]
——, condensed, [596]
—— coolers, [156]
——, cooling, [113]
—— for bread, [208]
—— for cheese, [159]
——, hot, [773]
——, keeping, [113]
—— lemonade, [201]
—— of sulphur, [779]
—— pans, [154], [155], [156]
—— ——, cooling, [154], [155], [156], [581]
—— ——, warming, [155]
—— punch, [201]
—— —— syrup, [177]
——, quality, [156]
——, skimming, [156]
—— soup, [258]
——, sour, [113]
——, temperature for churning, [158]
——, —— —— setting, [158]
——, testing, [520]
——, thickened, [483]
—— toast, [483], [773]
—— vessels, cleaning, [154], [156], [158]
Mill, [692]
Milliner Bewitched, [680]
Milne’s gas regulator burner, [89]
Mince pies, [417]
Minced meats as food, [599]
—— mutton, [324]

—— veal, [340]
Mineral oil lamps, [84]
—— —— safety lamps, [84]
Minestra, [503]
Minestrone soup, [257]
Mint sauce, [470]
Mirrors, [98]
——, cleaning, [529]
Miser and Money-lender, [679]
Miss Lunsdam’s Fancy dance, [653]
Mistress range, [231]
Mixed pickles, [135]
Mocha pudding, [418]
Mock brawn, [312]
—— pea soup, [258]
—— turtle soup, [259]
Moderator lamp, [83]
Molasses beer, [201]
Molucca balm cordial, [187]
Monastery wine soup, [492]
Monday marketing, [568]
Monkshood, [792]
Moolie, [270], [499]
Moonlight scenery, [657]
Moore’s ventilator, [56]
Moorish dress, [735]
Moral training of children, [753]
Morcillas, [511]
Morgiana dance in Iceland, [653]
Morning milk, [156]
—— room furniture, [98]
Morocco leather, cleaning, [534]
Morphia bimeconate, [779]
Moselle cup, [201]
Mosquitoes, [559]
Mothering cakes, [219]
Moths, [559]
Motors, domestic, [936]
Mottled darn, [896]
Mould in cheese, [161]
Mourning, [719]
Mousseline pudding, [418]
Muffins, [214]
Mulberries, [579]
Mulberry jam, [146]
—— jelly, [146]
—— syrup, [177]
Mulled ale, [202]
Mullein for coughs, [801]
Mullet, boiled, [286]
——, broiled, [287]
——, buying, [565], [566], [573], [576], [578], [582]
——, carving, [621]
——, grey, [286]
——, red, [287]
Mulligatawny soup, [259]
Muriate of ammonia, [779]
Musgrave’s stove, [72]
Mushroom ketchup, [134]
—— poisoning, [793]
Mushrooms, [376], [569], [573], [576]
—— and eggs, [451]
——, keeping, [120]
——, pickled, [135]
Mussel soup, [259]
Mussels, [288]
——, buying, [565], [573], [580]
——, stewed, [288]
Mustard, [470]
—— paper, [762]
—— poultice, [762]
Mutton, [317]
——, baked, [317]
——, breast, [317]
—— broth, [259], [318]
——, buying, [563], [565], [567], [575]
——, carving, [624]
—— casseroles, [318]
——, cavalier’s broil, [331]
—— chops, [318]
—— croquettes, [318]
—— cutlets, [318]
—— ——, à la maître d’hôtel, [319]
—— ——, savoury, [319]
—— ——, stewed, [318]
—— —— with apples and gravy, [319]
——, haggis, [319]
—— hams, [128]
——, haricot, [320]
——, hashed, [320]
——, Irish stew, [321]
——, kidneys, [321]
—— kromeskies, [322]
——, leg, [323]
——, loin, [323]
——, minced, [324]
——, neck, [324]
—— pasty, [325]
—— patties, [325]
—— pudding, [326]
——, roast saddle, [326]
—— rissoles, [326]
—— sausages, [326]
—— scollops, [327]
——, scrag, [325]
——, shoulder, [330]
——, squab pie, [331]
Nalym, [508]
Napkins, folding, [617]
Naples biscuits, [214]
Narcotic poisons, [792]
Nasturtiums, pickled, [135]
National Kitchener, [227]
Neapolitan dress, [735]
Neats’ tongues, smoked, [130]
Neck of mutton, [324]
—— —— —— à la Duchesse, [324]
—— —— ——, boiled, [324]
—— —— ——, braised, [324]
—— —— ——, roast, [325]
—— —— ——, rolled, [325]
Nectar, [173], [202]
—— cordial, [187]
—— syrup, [177]
Nectarines, [569], [573], [574]
——, keeping, [121]
Negus, [206]
Nelson’s rifle-back grate, [65]
Nesselrode pudding, [418]
Nestlé’s milk food, [752]
Nettle beer, [202]
—— wine, [202]
Nettlerash, [823]
Nettles, [377]
Neufchatel cheese, [166]
Neun-loth pudding, [493]
Newcastle pudding, [418]
New-milk cheese, [160]
New Zealand outfit, [727]
Night-caps, [809]
Nightlights, [83]
Nightmare, [683]
Night nursery walls, [102]
Nightshade poisoning, [792]
Night-work diet, [596]
Nitrate of silver, [779]
—— —— —— poisoning, [793]
Nitre, [779]
Nitric acid, [779]
—— —— poisoning, [793]
—— —— stains on hands, [533]
Nivernaise soup, [248]
Noiseless crockery, [756]
Nonpareil bitters, [181]
—— gas cooker, [236]
Norfolk chine, [128]
—— dumplings, [419]
Normandy, butter-making in, [158]
—— dress, [731]
North American outfit, [727]
—— Holland dress, [735]
—— Wilts cheese, [165]
Northerly rooms, warming
Norton tube wells, [14]
Norway dress, [739]
Nouilles soup, [260]
November gardening, [935]
—— markets, [580]
Noyeau, [187]
—— ratafia, [187]
Nuckodee choofta, [502]
Nudels, [493]
Nuisance, law of, [962]
Nurse, precautions for, in infectious cases, [816]
Nursemaids, [754]
Nursery, [746]
——, aspect for, [3]
——, furnishing, [101]
—— medicines, [753]
—— walls, [101]
—— windows, [101]
Nurse’s dress, [756]
—— duties, [756]
Nursing infectious cases, [814]
—— mothers, [750]
Nut cordial, [189]
Nutmeg flavour, [479]
Nutritive values of foods, [588]
Oatmeal, [594]
—— cakes, [214]
—— drink, [202]
—— pie, [419]
—— pudding, [419]
October gardening, [935]
—— markets, [578]
Odours of kitchen, [243]
——, removing from hands, [53]
Oilcloth, [97]
—— from carpet, [524]
Oil cooking, [237]
—— lamps, [83]
—— ——, mineral, [84]
—— stoves, [79]
Okra, [483]
—— soup, [260]
Old-fashioned dances, [652]
Old hen, [351]
Olive sauce, [471]
Olives, [377]

—— and eggs, [451]
Omelet, fish, [270]
—— soufflé, [456]
Omelets, [454]
——, plain, [455]
——, —— sweet, [455]
——, savoury, [456]
——, sweet, [456]
Omnibus pudding, [419]
Onion gruel, [769]
—— posset, [769]
—— salad, [385]
—— sauce, [471]
—— soup, [260]
Onions, [377], [579], [582]
——, keeping, [115]
——, pickled, [135]
Open-fire ranges, [222]
—— grates, [61], [65]
—— stove, [62]
Opium poisoning, [793]
Opodeldoc, [779]
Optical delusions, [674]
Orange bitters, [181]
—— brandy, [187]
—— champagne, [173]
—— chips, [146], [419]
—— compote, [419]
—— cordial, [187]
—— cream, [419]
—— elixir, [187]
—— essence, [178]

—— flavour, [479]
—— flower cakes, [506]
—— —— puffs, [506]
—— —— ratafia, [187]
—— fool, [419]
—— fritters, [419]
—— gin, [188]
—— jelly, [146], [419]
—— marmalade, [146]
—— mould, [420]
—— pudding, [420]
—— puffs, [420]
—— salad, [420]
—— sauce, [471]
—— sponge, [420]
—— syrups, [177]
—— tart, [420]
—— tartlets, [420]
—— whey, [774]
—— wine, [202]
Orangeade, sulphuric, [205]
Oranges, [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [574], [582]
—— keeping, [114]
——, preserved, [147]
Orchard Street pudding, [420]
Organisms which ripen cheese, [161]
Organised matter in water, [23]
Orgeat cordial, [188]
—— syrup, [177]
Orris flavour, [479]
Ortolans, [360], [566], [571], [573], [581]
——, fried, [360]
—— in cases, [360]
——, roast, [360]
——, stewed, [361]
Oswego pudding, [420]
Otranto Picture, [680]
Ottoman, [98]
—— boxes, [100]
Oucha, [508]
Outdoor games, [872]
Outfits, Australian, [722]
—— for abroad, [722]
——, Indian, [724]
——, New Zealand, [727]
——, North America, [727]
——, West Indian, [727]
Outlet for rain-water pipes, [18]
Ouzum yaprac dolmassi, [512]
Oven, gas, [208]
—— pyrometer, [207]
—— -roasting, [224]
——, steam, [208]
—— ventilators, [224]
Ovens, [207]
——, cooking in, [224]
—— in ranges, [222]
——, roasting in, [240]
——, water-pans for, [224]
Overflow pipes of cisterns, [44]
Oxalic acid poisoning, [793]
Ox brains, [312]
—— cheek, [312]
—— head, [312]
—— tail soup, [260]
—— tails, [313]
Oxford Grace cup, [202]
—— mull, [202]
—— punch, [202]
Oyster cream, [288]
—— croustades, [288]
—— cutlets, [288]
—— fricassée, [289]
—— fritters, [289], [769]
—— kromeskies, [289]
—— olives, [289]
—— patties, [289]
—— pie, [290]
—— rissolettes, [290]
—— salad, [386]
—— sauce, [471]
—— sausages, [290]
—— soufflé, [290]
—— soup, [260]
—— toast, [291]
Oysters, [288], [488]
——, angels on horseback, [288]
——, broiled, [288]
——, buying, [565], [566], [569], [570], [576], [580]
—— devilled, [289]
—— fried, [289]
—— raw, [288]
—— roasted, [290]
——, salting, [128]
—— scalloped, [290]
—— skewered, [290]
—— steamed, [291]
—— stewed, [291]
Pachîsî, [693]
Packing eggs, [924]
—— room (laundry), [859]
Page of Charles II. dress, [735]
—— —— Henry IV. dress, [735]
Pail filter, [26]
Paint brushes, cleaning, [541]
——, cleaning, [540]
—— defaced by matches, [93]
——, luminous, [83]
—— poisoning, [793]
——, removing from glass, [531]
—— stains removing, [555]
Painted walls, [99]
Painting ceilings, [99]
Palestine soup, [261]
Pan closets, [45]
Pan dowdy, [483]
Panada, chicken, [352]
Pancakes, [420]
——, samp, [432]
——, snow, [432]
Pans, kitchen, [237]
Pantomime, [684]
Pantry, [207]
——, biscuits, [210]
——, bread, [207]
——, cakes, [210]
——, fancy breads, [210]
——, ovens, [207]
——, shelves, [96]
Paper, cleaning, [541]
—— hangings, [99], [101]
—— -stuffed pillows, [760]
Paradise pudding, [421]
Parchment cleaning, [542]
Paregoric, [779]
Parfait amour cordial, [188]
Parkin, [215]
Parkinson’s gas regulator, [88]
—— —— —— burner, [89]
Parlourmaid’s duties, [607]
Parmesan cheese, [166]
—— —— soup, [261]
Parochial matters, law of, [960]
Parsley and butter, [471]
—— —— lemon sauce, [488]
——, fried, [471]
—— sauce, [471]
Parsnip pudding, [493]
—— wine, [203]
Parsnips, [377], [565], [563], [582]
Parson’s grate, [69]
Parting cup, [203]
Partridge, carving, [632]
—— pie, [361]
—— pudding, [362]
——, roast, [362]
—— salad, [362]
Partridges, [361], [565], [566], [575], [580], [581]
—— aux choux, [361]
——, boiled, [361]
——, braised, [361]
——, broiled, [361]
Passage walls, [96]
Passover pudding, [505]
Paste, dripping, [421]
—— for patties, [421]
——, puff, [421]
Pastry, [387]
—— for invalids, [772]
Pasty, mutton, [325]
Patching, [890], [901]
Patient, disinfecting, [819]
——, feeding, [768]
——, temperature, [764]
——, visitors, [758]
Patties, fish, [271]
Patty paste, [421]
Paysanne soup, [267]
Pea salad, [385]
—— soup, [261]
—— ——, mock, [258]
Peach brandy, [188]
—— cheese, [421]
—— compote, [422]
—— cordial, [189]
—— cream, [422]
—— flavour, [479]
—— jam, [148]
—— toast, [422]
Peaches, [569], [573], [574], [576], [579]
——, brandied, [147]
——, keeping, [121]
Pear flavour, [479]
—— jelly, [148]
—— soup, [261]
—— syrup, [177]
Pears, [565], [568], [569], [574], [576], [579], [582]
——, keeping, [114], [115], [116]
——, preserved, [148]
——, stewed, [422]
Peas, [377], [568], [569], [570], [572], [573]
——, green, keeping, [119]
Peebles’s gas regulator, [89]
—— —— —— burner, [89]
Pepper flavour, [479]
—— pot, [472], [515]
—— punch, [173], [515]
——, testing, [521]
Peppermint brandy, [188]
—— cordial, [188]
—— liqueur, [188]
—— test for drains, [41]
Pepper’s ghost, [676]
Perambulators, [749]
Perch, [291], [580]
Perforated panes for ventilation, [56]
Peripatetic pudding, [422]
Persian curry, [502]
Person, disinfecting, [819]
Peruvian bitters, [181]
Petroleum engines, [950]
—— lamps, [84]
—— safety lamps, [84]
Phantasmagoria, [676]
Pheasant, [362], [565], [566], [578], [580], [581]
——, carving, [632]
——, roast, [362]
—— with truffles, [362]
Phosphorus for safety light, [93]
—— poisoning, [793]
Photographic plates, cleaning, [530]
Physic, taking, [776]
Physical comfort in schools, [867]
—— experiments, [671]
—— training, [867]
Piccalilli, [135]
Pickled bloaters, [487]
—— fish, [503]
—— pork, [128]
—— salmon, [129]
—— sprats, [131]
Pickles, mixed, [135]
——, season for making, [573]
——, testing, [521]

Pickling, [132]
—— cabbage, [132]
—— chutney, [132]
—— cucumbers, [133]
—— gherkins, [133]
—— grape leaves, [133]
—— grapes, [133]
—— hips, [144]
—— lemon, [134]
—— limes, [145]
—— mushrooms, [135]
—— nasturtiums, [135]
—— onions, [135]
—— samphire, [135]
—— tomato, [136]
—— vinegar, [136]
—— walnuts, [137]
Picture frames, cleaning, [545]
Pictures, cleaning, [542]
Piedmont tartlets, [422]
Pigeon and beefsteak pie, [363]
——, carving, [630]
Pigeons, [570], [581]
——, keeping, [927]
Pigs, [917]
——, breed, [917]
——, breeding, [918]
——, fatting, [918]
——, feeding, [919]
—— feet, [335]
—— liver, [335]
—— styes, [917]
——, sucking-, [337]
Pike, [291], [580]
—— baked with sour cream, [291]
——, boiled, [291]
——, broiled, [292]
——, carbonade, [292]
——, fried, [292]
—— larded, [292]
——, roast, [292]
—— sauce, [292]
—— soup, [488]
——, soused, [292]
——, stewed, [292]
——, stewed, with butter sauce, [488]
Pikelets, [422]
Pilau, [500], [513]
——, fish, [500]
——, fowl, [501]
——, fruit, [501]
Pilchards, [291], [576]
Pilemaignes, [508]
Pilgrim and Saint, [684]
Pillows, [98], [702]
Pills, taking, [777]
Pimples, [822]
Pinaree, [516]
Pine drink, [516]
Pineapple cream, [423]
—— flavour, [479]
—— fritters, [423]
—— ice cream, [443]
—— jam, [148]
—— jelly, [148], [423]
—— preserve, [148]
—— syrup, [177]
—— toast, [423]
Pineapples, [569], [574], [576], [582]
——, keeping, [121]
Pinnated grouse, [565]
Pipe drains, [52]
—— ——, faults of, [53]
—— ——, joining, [53]
—— ——, kinds of, [53]
—— smoking, [606]
Pipes, coil, for heating, [81]
——, discharge, [38]
—— for conveying water, [19]
—— —— rain-water, [17]
——, frozen, [847]
——, gas, [85]
—— ——, testing, [92]
——, hot-water, joining, [81]
——, soil,

[38]
——, ventilation of, [38]
Piquante sauce, [473]
Pishpash, [502]
Pistachio nuts, [582]
Pitch of roof, [5]
Plaice, [291], [565], [566], [569], [570], [573], [580]
Plain darn, [895]
Plaster, cleaning, [535]
Plate glass against burglars, [108]
Plate powders, [539]
Plated goods, cleaning, [539]
Playground, [870]
Plays, arranging, [662]
——, fitting the parts, [662]
——, list of, [659]
——, rehearsing, [663]
——, selecting, [659]
Playthings, [749]
Plinsen, [493]
Ploaré dress, [742]
Plover, [363], [565], [566], [568], [580], [581]
——, carving, [631]
——, fillets, [363]
—— on toast, [363]
——, roast, [363]
Plover’s eggs, [570], [581]
Plum brandy, [188]
—— cake, [215]
—— flavour, [479]
—— jam, [149]
—— pudding, [423]
—— —— sauce, [472]
—— purée, [424]
—— sauce, [462]
—— soup, [261]
—— tart, [424]
Plums, [576], [579]
——, bottled, [148]
——, bottling, [138]
—— in brandy, [149]
—— —— syrup, [149]
—— —— vinegar, [149]
——, keeping, [121]
——, preserved, [149]
Plush velvet furniture, [98]
Poached eggs, [457]
Poison dogwood, [793]
—— ivy, [793]
Poisonous bites, [781]
Poisons, [791]
Poivrade sauce, [473]
Poker, [694]
Polish bézique, [686]
—— dishes, [506]
—— dress, [731]
—— sauce, [472]
—— soup, [261]
Pomeranian soup, [262]
Pont l’évêque cheese, [166]
Poor knights, [424]
—— man’s soup, [262]
Poos-pass, [352]
Popcorn candy, [439]
Poppy poisoning, [793]
Porcelain cooking vessels, [239]
Pork and beans, [483]
—— —— kidney pudding, [335]
——, buying, [565], [567], [575], [578], [580]
——, carving, [627]
—— chops, [336]
—— croquettes, [336]
——, pickled, [128]
—— pie, [336]
——, roast, [336]
—— sausages, [336]
Porker’s head, salting, [129]
Porous pottery filters, [32]
Porridge, [215], [594]
Port du Salut cheese, [167]
Port wine jelly, [770]
Porter jelly, [424], [770]
Pot au feu, [262]
—— —— ——, beef, [313]
—— pourri, [652]
Potage, [242]
Potash poisoning, [793]
Potassium bichromate stains on hands, [533]
—— oxalate poisoning, [793]
Potato balls, [378]
—— cakes, [378]
—— cheese, [446]
—— chops, [769]
—— omelets, [455]
—— pie, [424]
—— pudding, [425]
—— rissoles, [378]
—— salad, [386]
—— soup, [262]
Potatoes, [565], [568], [570], [572], [573], [576], [578]
—— à la Russe, [378]
—— au gratin, [378]
——, calecannon, [378]
—— for bread, [208]
——, fried, [378]
——, keeping boiled, [113]
——, mashed, [378]
——, stewed, [378]
—— with cream, [377]
Pots, kitchen, [237]
Potted beef, [125], [313]
—— bloaters, [126]
—— char, [126]
—— cheese, [446]
—— larks, [359]
—— shrimps, [130]
—— sprats, [131]
—— trout, [132]
Pottery filters, [32]
Potting butter, [159]
Pouf berek, [513]
Poultices, [761]
Poultry, buying, [565], [566], [568], [569], [571], [573], [575], [578], [580], [581]
——, carving, [628]
——, cooking, [344]
——, eating, [633]
——, hanging, [344]
——, keeping, [113]
—— lice, [561]
—— soup, [250], [263]
Pound cake, [216]
Powders, taking, [777]
Prassas, [513]
Prawns, [292], [573]
——, aspic, [292]
Precautions after floods, [54]
Prepared chalk, [779]
Preserving barberries, [139]
—— beetroot, [139]
—— crab-apples, [141]
—— cranberries, [142]
—— cherries, [141]
—— citrons, [141]
—— cucumbers, [142]
—— figs, [142]
—— ginger, [142]
—— hips, [144]
—— jams and jellies, [137]
—— limes, [145]
—— melons, [146]
—— oranges, [147]
—— pears, [148]
—— plums, [149]
—— quinces, [150]
—— strawberries, [152]
—— walnuts, [153]
President’s pudding, [425]
Pressed beef, [313]
Primrose pudding, [425]
—— vinegar, [136]
—— wine, [203]

Prince’s pudding, [425]
Printing of school-books, [863]
Prints, cleaning, [543]
Processes of cookery, [240]
Prospect for dwelling, [2]
Provençal ratafia, [188]
Prune cake, [425]
—— flavour, [479]
—— jelly, [149]
—— mould, [425]
—— preserve, [150]
—— sauce, [472]
Prunes, stewed, [425]
Prussian cake, [216]
Prussic acid poisoning, [792]
Ptarmigan, [581]
——, carving, [633]
Pudding sauce, [473]
Puddings, [387]
—— for invalids, [773]
Puff paste, [421], [503]
Pulled fish, [271]
Pumpkin, [378]
—— jam, [150]
—— pie, [483]
—— soup, [263]
Pumps, [20]
——, deep-well, [22]
——, dimensions for, [21]
——, fixing suction pipe, [21]
——, lift and force, [22]
——, simple lift, [20]
——, suction pipe, [20]
——, working capacity, [20]
——, working figures, [23]
Punch, [203]
—— jelly, [426]
——, pepper, [173]
—— without liquor, [775]
Punishments, [868]
Purification of water, [16], [23]
Purifying air, [57]
Purimacos cement, [233]
Purity of drinking-water, test for, [24]
Purses, [503]
Putting electric bell together, [107]
—— out candle, [83]
—— —— gas, [85]
—— —— lamp, [84]
—— up butter, [158]
Pyrogallol poisoning, [793]
Pyrometer, bakers’, [207]
Quadrille mazurka dance, [653]
Quails, [363], [571], [573], [581]
—— in cases, [363]
——, roast, [363]
Quality of food needed, [583]
Quantity of food needed, [583]
Quay pudding, [397]
Queen Adelaide’s pudding, [426]
—— Mab’s pudding, [426]
Queen’s biscuits, [217]
—— cake, [217]
—— drops, [217]
—— gingerbread, [217]
Quenelle soup, [263]
Quenelles, fish, [271]
Quiet in sickroom, [756]
Quin sauce, [473]
Quince and apple tart, [389]
—— cakes, [426]
—— cordial, [189]
—— jam, [150]
—— jelly, [150]
—— marmalade, [150]
—— ratafia, [188]
Quinces, brandied, [150]
——, preserved, [150]
Quinine, taking, [777]
Quinsy, [802]
Quoits, [882]
Quoormah, [502]
Rabbit, carving, [630]
—— pie, [365]
—— with onion sauce, [365]
Rabbits, [363], [565], [566], [571], [573], [578], [581]
——, baked, [364]
——, boiled, [364]
——, curried, [364]
——, cutlets, [364]
——, fricassée, [364]
——, stewed, [365]
Racking off wine, [190]
Racquet court, [883]
Radishes, [582]
Rahat lukum, [440]
Railroad liqueur, [188]
Railway pudding, [426]
Rain machine, [656]
Rainfall, [13]
Rain-water, [13]
——, catching, [15]
—— cisterns, [15], [16]
——, disposal of, [42]
—— dissolves lead, [17]
—— gutters, [42]
—— pipes, [17]
—— ——, outlet, [18]
—— ——, smell from, [42]
——, precautions in storing, [17]
—— separator, [16]
Raised pie in china mould, [426]
—— waffles, [487]
Raisin flavour, [480]
—— pudding, [427]
—— wine, [203]
Raisins, [565], [582]
Ramakins, [447]
Rancid butter, [159]
Ranges, cooking, [221]
Rarebits, [449]
Raspberries, [572], [574]
——, bottling, [138]
Raspberry and currant tartlets, [427]
—— brandy, [188]
—— cordial, [189]
—— custard, [427]
—— essence, [179]
—— flavour, [480]
—— jam, [137]
—— jelly, [151]
—— sauce, [473]
—— syrup, [177]
—— vinegar, [137]
Rates and taxes, [957]
Rat poison, antidotes, [793]
Rats, [561]
—— eating through leaden pipes, [53]
—— in drains, [51], [53]
—— not stopped by siphon traps, [53]
Ravigote sauce, [473]
Ravioli, [427]
Raw oysters, [288]
Red cabbage, [379]
—— colouring for soda-water syrups, [176]
—— currant cordial, [189]
—— —— jam, [137]
—— —— jelly, [151]
—— herrings, [127]
—— mullet, [287]
—— ——, baked, [287]
—— ——, broiled, [287]
—— ——, stewed, [287]
—— ——, stuffed, [287]
—— ratafia, [189]
Reed birds, [571]
Reflectors, [83]
Refooting, [901]
Refreshments, miscellaneous, [646]
Refuse foundations, [2]
Regenerative gas burners, [90]
Regulation of exercise, [871]
Removing ring from finger, [706]
—— stoppers, [562]
Rennet extract, [160]
—— for cheese-making, [159]
Renovating, [521]
Rent of house, [956]
Renting a house, [955]
Rep darn, [897]
Repairs to house, law of, [956]
Reprise perdue darn, [897]
Restorative jelly, [770]
—— soup, [773]
Restoring sour beer, [180]
Returned Mariner, [679]
Reverberations in rooms, reducing, [8]
Rhenish cup, [203]
Rheumatism, [821]
Rhubarb, [566], [572], [779]
—— and orange marmalade, [152]
——, bottled, [151]
——, bottling, [138]
—— cream, [427]
—— flummery, [427]
—— fool, [427]
—— fritters, [428]
—— jam, [151]
—— jelly, [151], [428]
—— mould, [428]
—— pudding, [428]
——, stewed, [428]
—— wine, [204]
—— with figs, [428]
Rib darn, [900]
Rice and carrot soup, [264]
—— —— pea soup, [264]
—— —— sorrel soup, [264]
—— —— tomato soup, [264]
——, boiled, [428], [502]
——, buying, [577]
—— cream, [771]
—— croquettes, [428]
——, empress, [429]
—— fritters, [429]
—— gruel,

[769]
——, kedgeree, [429]
—— mange, [429]
—— meringue, [429]
——, moulded, with mushrooms, [429]
—— omelets, [456]
—— pie, [430]
—— pound cake, [217]
—— pudding, [388], [430]
——, savoury, [430]
—— shape, [430]
—— soufflé, [430]
—— soup, [263]
—— sweet dish, [430]
—— waffles, [486]
—— water, [775]
Richelieu pudding, [430]
Richmond maids of honour, [431]
Ricotta, [504]
Ring, removing from finger, [706]
Ringworm, [824]
Rinsing machine, [854]
Ripening cheese, [161]
—— cream, [157]
Rippingille’s oil cooker, [237]
Risotto, [431], [504]
Roach, [293]
——, broiled, [293]
——, stewed, [293]
Roasting, [240]
—— -ovens, [240]
Robert sauce, [473]
Roberts’s rain-water separator, [16]
—— terra-cotta stoves, [73]
Robinson’s groats, [752]
Rolled herrings, [281]

—— neck of mutton, [325]
—— veal, [342]
Rolls, French, [213]
Roman pudding, [431]
—— punch, [189]
Roof, dachpappe, [6]
——, dwelling, [5]
——, felt, [6]
—— gutters, [17], [42]
——, metallic, [7]
——, pitch of, [5]
——, shingles, [6]
——, slate, [6]
——, thatch, [5]
——, tiles, [7]
—— ventilators, [59]
——, Willesden paper, [6]
Rook pie, [365]
Rooms, conserving heat in, [60]
——, cooling, [59]
——, disinfecting, [820]
—— for children, [746]
——, scenting, [652]
——, situations for, [3]
——, warming northerly, [77]
Roots, keeping, [113], [122]
Roquefort cheese, [167]
Rose cordial, [189]
—— flavour, [480]
—— syrup, [178]
Rotary washing machine, [852]
Rout biscuits, [217]
—— cake, [217]
Rowan berries, keeping, [122]
—— jelly, [152]
—— syrup, [178]
Royale soup, [252]
Rugs, cleaning, [528]
Rules for grates, [62]
Rum butter, [473]
—— omelets, [456]
—— shrub, [189]
Rumford-Teale grate, [69]
Run patch, [891]
Rush cream cheese, [160]
Rusks, [217]
——, sweet, [219]
Russian dishes, [507]
—— dress, [731]
—— jelly, [431]
—— salad, [386]
Rustless iron water-pipes, [20]
Saccharine aerated drinks, [171]
Saddle of lamb, [326]
—— —— mutton, [326]
Saddles, cleaning, [534]
Sætersdal dress, [739]
Safe tray for w.c.’s, [46]
Safety lamps, domestic, [84]
—— light (phosphorus), [93]
—— valves for electric light, [95]
Saffron buns, [218]
Sage cheese, [160]
Sago, buying, [578]
—— gruel, [410]
——, keeping, [114]
—— milk, [774]
—— pudding, [431]
—— soup, [264]
—— wine soup, [493]
Sail skating, [883]
St. Honoré pudding, [431]
St. John’s bread flavour, [480]
Salad dressings, [379], [382]
——, eating, [635]
——, fish, [271]
Salads, [382]
Sally lunns, [218]
Salmagundy, [516]
Salmon, [293]
—— à la Montpelier, [293]
—— au bleu, [293]
—— —— gratin, [293]
——, boiled, [293]
——, broiled, [293]
—— boudin, [294]
——, buying, [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [571], [573], [576]
—— cakes, [294]
——, carving, [621]
—— chaudfroid, [294]
—— croquettes, [294]
—— cutlets, [295]
——, devilled, [295]
——, grilled, [295]
——, kippered, [129]
—— kromeskies, [295]
—— mayonnaise, [295]
——, pickled, [129]
—— pie, [295]
—— salad, [296]
——, salting, [129]
——, scalloped, [296]
—— trout, [568], [570], [573]
Salsenaugen, [494]
Salsify, [582]
——, boiled, [379]
——, fried, [379]
——, scolloped, [379]
Salt, [594]
—— beef, [314]
—— cod, mashed, [276]
—— fish, [296]
—— of lemon poisoning, [793]
—— —— sorrel poisoning, [793]
Salted sprats, [131]
—— tongues, [131]
Salting bacon, [125]
—— bath chaps, [125]
—— beef, [125]
—— hams, [127]
—— herrings, [127]
—— oysters, [128]
—— porker’s head, [129]
—— salmon, [129]
—— sardines, [129]
Saltpetre, [779]
Salts for heating, [82]
Sal volatile, [779]
Samp, [410]
—— pancakes, [432]
—— pudding, [432]
Samphire, pickled, [135]
Sand filters, [26]
—— torte, [494]
Sanitary Engineering Co.’s ventilator, [58]
Sanitation, detecting faults in, [40]
—— of dwellings, [35]
Santonine, [779]
Sardine eggs, [297]
—— salad, [297], [387]
—— sandwiches, [297]
—— sauce, [488]
—— toast, [297]
Sardines, [296], [576]
—— à la maître d’hôtel, [297]
——, curried, [296]
——, devilled, [296]
——, dressed, [296]
——, grilled, [297]
——, salting, [129]
Sarsaparilla beer, [204]
—— mead, [189]
—— syrup, [178]
Sasatijs, [487]
Sassafras flavour, [480]
Saucepans, [237]
——, cleaning, [238]
——, enamelled, [238]
——, tin, [238]
Sauces, [460]
—— for game, [345]
—— —— pike, [292]
——, truffle, [380]
——, white, [379]
Sauerbraten, [494]
Sausage rolls, [308]
Sausages as food, [599]
——, making, [129]
——, mutton, [326]
——, pork, [336]
Saving life at fires, [110]
Savory and Moore’s food, [752]
Savouries, eating, [634]
Savoury cutlets, [319]
—— eggs, [458]
—— omelets, [456]
—— rice, [430]
—— —— omelets, [456]
Savoy biscuits, [218]
—— cabbage soup, [264]
—— cake, [218]
Savoyard soup, [264]
Savoys, [565], [582]
Sawyer’s filters, [27]
Saxon dress, [728]
Scalded cream, [403]
Scalds, [785]
Scale pans, cleaning, [537]
Scalloped beef, [314]
—— oysters, [290]
—— salmon, [296]
Scallops, [297]
——, baked, [297]
——, fried, [298]
——, stewed, [298]
Scenting rooms, [652]
Schabzieger cheese, [167]
Schmarn batter, [494]
Schmarollen, [494]
School benches, [862]
—— books, [863]
—— cake, [214]
—— clothes, [717]
—— desks, [862]
—— hours, [865]
—— punishments, [868]
—— work, [865]
Schoolroom, [862]
——, literature, [869]
Schools, foreign, [868]
Scones, [218]
——, soda, [219]
Scorzonera, [379]
——, fried, [379]
—— with cheese, [379]
Scotch broth, [265]
—— eggs, [458]
—— kale, [565], [582]
—— rarebit, [449]
Scottish dishes, [509]
Scrag of mutton à la russe, [325]
Scrambled eggs, [458]
Scrap soup, [264]
Scullery walls, [96]
Sea bathing, [829]
—— bream, [565], [578]
Seakale, [379], [566], [569], [582]
Seamless patch, [892]
Sea-sickness, [822]
Seaside lodgings, [746]
Seasons, [563]
Second-hand furniture, [97]
Seconds flour, [209]
Seed cake, [218]
Selecting a play, [659]
Self-filling boilers, [845]
Semolina cream, [771]
——, keeping, [114]
—— soup, [265]
Separators for rain-water, [16]
September gardening, [934]
—— markets, [575]

Servants’ bedrooms, [700]
——, illness of, [960]
——, laws of, [959]
—— sitting-room, [96]
Servian dress, [731], [735]
Service pipes, [20]
Serviettes, folding, [617]
Setting eggs, [921]
Sévigné soup, [250]
Sewage microbes in water, [24]
Sewer gas entering by the drains, [39]
—— —— reaching cisterns, [44]
Sewn and felled patch, [890]
—— patch, [891]
Shad, [298], [568]
Shaking hands, [648]
Shallot omelet, [456]
Sham champagne, [204]
Sharp sauce, [473]
Shaving, [708]
Shchi, [508]
Sheep’s brains, [327]
—— heads, [327]
—— ——, carving, [627]
—— ——, singeing, [328]
—— —— soup, [265]
—— heart, [328]
—— liver, [328]
—— —— à la Française, [329]
—— —— pudding, [329]
—— pluck, [329]
—— tongue, [329]
—— trotters, [329]
Sheepskins, cleaning, [529]
Sheets, [702]
Shellfish, carving, [622]
Shelves, dairy, [154]
—— for storing fruit, [116]
—— in pantries, [96]
Sherbet syrup, [178]
Sherry cobbler, [204]
—— —— syrup, [178]
Shikaree pie, [346]
Shingle roof, [6]
Shoes, [711]
Shortbread, [218]
Shortcake, strawberry, [434]
Shoulder of mutton, [330], [485]
—— —— ——, boned, [330]
Shrewsbury cake, [218]
Shrimp sauce, [474]
—— soup, [265]
Shrimps, buying, [565], [573]
——, potted, [130]
——, preserved, [130]
Shrub cordial, [189]
Shutters, [108]
—— of nursery, [746]
Siberian pilemaignes, [508]
—— whist, [696]
Sickbed, [758]
Sick headache, [811]
Sickroom, [755]
—— accessories, [761]
——, aspect for, [3]
——, books, [826]
—— foods, [768]
—— thermometer, [764]
—— visitors, [758]
Sideboards, [98]
Sight, defective, [809]
Silber lamp, [83]
Silicated carbon filters, [28]
Silk goods, cleaning, [552]
Silver goods, cleaning, [539]
—— lace, cleaning, [540]
—— nitrate stains on hand, [533]
—— torch, [83]
Simnel cake, [219]
Sine qua non range, [230]
Singeing sheep’s head, [328]
—— the hair, [809]
Singing hinny, [432]
Single Gloucester cheese, [165]
—— web darn, [899]
Sink traps, [45]
—— waste pipes, [45]
Sinks, [45], [50]
——, bell traps in, [50]
——, connecting to drains, [39]
—— trapped gullies for, [50]
Siphon in gas pipes, [85]
—— traps, [46]
—— —— useless against rats, [53]
Sir Watkin Wynn’s pudding, [432]
Site for dwelling, [1]
Sitting fowls, [922]
Sitting-rooms, aspect for, [3]
—— ——, servants’, [96]
Situations for rooms, [3]
Skate, [298], [565], [578], [580], [582]
Skating, [885]
Skewered oysters, [290]
Skimming milk,

[156]
Skin complaints, [822]
Skink soup, [509]
Skins, cleaning, [528]
Slap-dashing walls, [9]
Slate cisterns, [19]
—— roof, [6]
Slates bedded in cement, [7]
Sleep, [703]
——, controlling, [703]
—— for children, [749]
——, length of, [703]
Sleeplessness, [703]
Sleight of hand tricks, [664]
Sligowitz liqueur, [188]
Slip and dip, [516]
Slip-stitched patch, [890]
Sloe gin, [189]
Sloke, [376]
Slops in sickroom, [755]
Slow combustion grate, [66]
—— —— stoves, [72]
Slugs, [561]
Smallpox, [813]
Smell of burning kitchen waste, to avoid, [49]
—— conveyed by bell-wire pipes, [49]
—— from cooking, [243]
—— from rain-water pipes, [42]
Smelts, [298], [565], [566], [568], [570], [578], [580], [582]
——, fried, [298]
Smith’s gas regulator, [89]
Smoke, breathing in, [110]
—— test for drains, [41]
Smoked geese, [130]
—— neats’ tongues, [130]
Smoker’s drink, [204]
Smoking and health, [666]
—— apparatus, [123]
—— chimney (for bacon), [124]
—— fish, [124]
—— foods, [123]
——, fuel for, [125]
—— herrings, [124]
—— mackerel, [124]
—— -room, aspect for, [3]
—— sprats, [124]
Smoky chimney, [80]
Snails, [561]
Snake bites, [781]
Snakes, [562]
——, excluding from dwellings, [8]
Snipe, [365], [565], [566], [568], [580], [581]
——, bisque, [365]
——, carving, [631]
——, fried, [366]
—— on toast, [366]
—— pie, [366]
——, roast, [366]
Snoring, [705]
Snowballs, [432]
Snow cake, [432]
—— mould, [432]
—— pancakes, [432]
Snowdon pudding, [432]
Soap dissolver, [851]
Socks, [711]
Soda acetate stove, [82]
—— poisoning, [793]
—— scones, [219]
—— water syrups, red colouring for, [176]
Sofas, [98]
Soft soap to remove grease from drains, [50]
—— water, [519]
Soil for dwelling, [1]
—— pipes, [38], [48]
—— ——, joints in, [49]
—— ——, ventilation of, [38], [49]
Sole à la maître d’hôtel, [298]
—— —— Normande, [298]
——, aspic, [298]
—— au gratin, [299]
—— au vin blanc, [299]
——, broiled, [299]
——, carving, [622]
——, consommé, [299]
—— en matelote, [299]
——, fillets, [299]
——, fricassée, [299]
——, fried, [300]
—— in brown sauce, [300]
—— in cases, [300]
—— in jelly, [298]
—— roulettes, [300]
—— salad, [300]
—— savalada, [300]
——, stewed, [301]
——, water souchet, [301]
—— with ravigote sauce, [301]
Soles, [298], [565], [566], [568], [570], [573], [578], [580], [582]
Soothing syrup poisoning, [793]
Sore throat, [802]
Sorrel, [380], [568], [569], [572], [582]
—— and eggs, [451]
—— drink, [516]
—— sauce, [489]
—— soup, [265]
Soubise sauce, [474]
Soufflé, [433]
Soup-herbs flavour, [480]
Soups, [244]
——, apple, [247]
——, apple and currant, [247]
——, artichoke, [247]
——, asparagus, [247]
——, barley, [247]
——, barszcz, [261]
——, batter-cream, [247]
——, bean, [256]
——, beef-tea, [258]
——, beer, [247]
——, birds’-nests, [247]
——, bonne femme, [248], [267]
——, bone, [247]
——, bones, keeping, [112]
——, brunoise, [248], [267]
——, cabbage, [264]
—— calf’s head, [248]
——, carrot, [248]
——, cauliflower, [249]
——, celery, [249]
——, cheap, [249]
——, cheese, [261]
——, cherry, [250]
——, chestnut, [250]
——, chicken, [250]
——, chiffonade, [267]
——, clarifying stock, [246]
——, clear, [251]
——, clear stock, [245]

——, clear, with custard, [252]
——, clear, with poached eggs, [252]
——, clear, with quenelles, [252]
——, cock-a-leekie, [253]
——, cockle, [253]
——, coconut, [253]
——, colbert, [267]
——, common stock, [244]
——, Condé, [256]
——, conger-eel, [253]
——, conti, [257]
——, crayfish, [253]
——, Crécy, [248]
——, croûte au pot, [254]
——, cussy, [260]
——, custard, [254]
——, dried turtle, [267]
——, eating, [633]
——, faubonne, [267]
——, fish stock, [246]
——, Flemish, [254]
——, French, [254]
——, fried, [254]
——, game, [254]
——, giblet, [254]
——, gniocchi, [255]
——, gravy, [255]
——, —— stock, [246]
——, green corn, [255]
——, —— pea, [255]
——, grouse, [255], [354]
——, hare, [255]
——, haricot, [256]
——, herb, [256]
——, herring, [256]
——, hochepot, [260]
——, hotchpotch, [256]
——, hunter’s, [256]
——, imperial, [256]
——, Italian, [257]
——, Jerusalem artichoke, [261]
——, julienne, [257]
——, keeping, [113]
——, kidney, [257]
——, leek, [257]
——, lentil, [257]
——, lettuce, [258]
——, Liebig’s beef tea, [258]
——, liver, [258]
——, lobster, [258]
——, macaroni, [258]
——, milk, [258]
——, minestrone, [257]
——, mock pea, [258]
——, —— turtle, [259]
——, mulligatawny, [259]
——, mussel, [259]
——, mutton broth, [259]
——, nivernaise, [248]
——, Nouilles, [260]
——, okra, [260]
——, onion, [260]
——, oxtail, [260]
——, oyster, [260]
——, Palestine, [261]
——, Parmesan cheese, [261]
——, paysanne, [267]
——, pea, [261]
——, ——, mock, [258]
——, pear, [261]
——, plum, [261]
——, Polish, [261]
——, Pomeranian, [262]
——, poor man’s, [262]
——, potato, [262]
——, pot au feu, [262]
——, poultry, [250], [263]
——, pumpkin, [263]
——, quenelle, [263]
——, rice, [263]
——, —— and carrot, [264]
——, —— —— pea, [264]
——, —— —— sorrel, [264]
——, —— —— tomato, [264]
—— royale, [252]
——, sago, [264]
——, Savoyard, [264]
——, Savoy cabbage, [264]
——, Scotch broth, [265]
——, scrap, [264]
——, semolina, [265]
——, Sévigné, [250]
——, sheep’s head, [265]
——, shrimp, [265]
——, sorrel, [265]
——, spinach, [265]
——, spring, [265]
——, strawberry, [266]
——, sweetbread, [266]
——, tapioca, [266]
——, tea-kettle broth, [266]
——, tomato, [266]
——, turnip, [266]
——, turtle, [266]
——, ——, mock, [259]
——, veal stock, [246]
——, vegetable, [267]
——, —— -marrow, [267]
——, —— stock, [246]
——, vermicelli, [267]
——, Victoria, [267]
——, white, [267]
——, —— stock, [246]
Sour beer, restoring, [180]
—— dough, curing, [208]
—— milk, [113]
Sous, [516]
Soused bream, [273]
—— carp, [274]
—— pike, [292]
—— sprats, [302]
—— trout, [302]
Sowens, [509]
Spacha, [516]
Spanish bitters, [181]
—— dance, [653]
—— dishes, [509]
—— dress, [745]
Spatzen, [494]
Spectre Dog, [682]
—— Workman, [681]
Spectre’s Kiss, [684]
Spencer corona, [90]
Spencer’s magnetic carbide filter, [29]
Spice gingerbread, [219]
—— nuts, [219]
Spiced bacon, [125]
—— beef, [126], [314]
Spinach, [380], [565], [569], [570], [579], [582]
—— greening, [474]
——, keeping, [113]
——, mashed, [380]
—— omelet, [456]
—— soup, [265]
Spirit lamps, [83]
—— of minderus, [779]
—— of nitre, [779]
—— of salt poisoning, [793]
Spirit-rapping séance, [681]
Spirits as food, [602]
Sponge cake, [219]
—— —— pudding, [433]
Sponge, cleaning, [545]
Sponge pudding, [433]
Spongy iron as a filter, [24], [30]
Sprains, [793]
Sprat pie, [301]
—— toast, [302]
Sprats, [301], [580]
——, baked, [301]
——, fried, [301]
——, patties, [301]
——, pickled, [131]
——, potted, [131]
——, rissoles, [302]
——, salted, [131]
——, smoking, [124]
——, soused, [302]
Spring bed, [702]
Spring soup, [265]
Springs, [13], [14]
——, seasonal variation, [14]
Sprouts, [565]
Spruce beer, [204]
Spurge laurel poisoning, [793]
Squab pie, [331]
Square eights dance, [653]
Stables, [910]
Stack-pipes, [42]
Stage illusions, [656]
Stained floors, [96]
Stains, removing, [553]
Staircase curtains, [98]
Stanford’s pipe drains, [53]
Starching, [548]
Stays, [710]
Steam baths, [831]
—— boiler, [234]
—— cooking, [233]
—— heating, [81], [82]
—— laundries, [849]
—— oven, [208]
—— power, [940]
—— washing, [848]
—— on windows, curing, [83]
Steamed oysters, [291]
Steatite gas burners, [85], [87]
Steel, cleaning, [538]
Steinlach dress, [731]
Stewing, [242]
—— fish, [269]
Stewpans, copper, [238]
Stews as food, [599]
Sticklerspersgrod, [494]
Still lemonade, [205]
Stilton cheese, [165]
Stings, [780]
Stock, [244]
——, clarifying, [246]
——, clear, [245]
——, fish, [246]
——, gravy, [246]
——, veal, [246]
——, vegetable, [246]
——, white, [246]
Stockings, [711]
Stölle, [495]
Stomach bitters, [181]
—— pump, [791]
Stone cisterns, [19]
——, cleaning, [535]
Stoneware drains, [52]
Stopped drains, [38], [50]
Stoppers, removing, [562]
Stopping chinks in floors, [56]
—— —— in windows, [56]
Storing ice, [114]
Stott’s gas regulator, [88]
Stouffate, [509]
Stoughton bitters, [181]
Stoves, American, [70]
——, close-fire, [71]
——, convoluted, [74]
——, German, [74]
——, gill, [73]
——, hot-air, [75]
——, oil,

[79]
——, open, [62]
——, slow combustion, [72]
——, underfed, [71]
Sracchino cheese, [166]
Strange Christmas-box, [679]
Straw goods, cleaning, [522]
—— palliasse, [701]
Strawberries, [568], [569], [570], [572], [574]
——, bottling, [138]

——, preserved, [152]
Strawberry chartreuse, [433]
—— cordial, [189]
—— cream, [433]
—— essence, [179]
—— flavour, [480]
—— ice cream, [443]
—— jam, [137], [152]
—— jelly, [152]
—— short-cake, [434]
—— soup, [266]
—— syrup, [178]
—— tartlets, [434]
Strengthening darn, [897]
Stretchers, [787]
Strode’s gas regulator, [89]
Strudels, [495]
Strychnine poisoning, [793]
Stuffed artichokes, [372]
—— cabbage, [374]
—— John Dory, [281]
—— red mullet, [287]
—— specimens, cleaning, [547]
Stuffing, chestnut, [367]
——, truffle and chestnut, [366]
Stuffings, [460]
Sturgeon, [582]
Styes in eyes, [809]
Styles and titles, [648]
Suburek, [513]
Sucking pig, [337]
—— ——, carving, [627]
Suction lamps, [83]
—— pipe of pumps, [20]
Suet keeping, [112]
—— pudding, [343], [434]
Suffocation, [790]
Sugar, buying, [577]
—— of lead poisoning, [793]
Sugg’s gas regulating burner, [89]
Sulphate of copper, [779]
—— —— potash, [779]
—— —— quinine, [779]
—— —— zinc, [779]
Sulphuric acid poisoning, [793]
—— ether, [779]
—— orangeade, [205]
Sultanas, [582]
Summer beer, [179]
—— drinks, [205]
—— milk, [156]
Sun burner, [90]
Sunlight, [82]
Sunstroke, [794]
Suppers, [646]
Swan, [581]
Sweating, excessive, [824]
Swedish dance, [653]
Sweeping carpet, [525]
Sweet dishes, [387]
—— omelets, [456]
—— potatoes, [568]
—— rice omelets, [456]
—— rusks, [219]
—— sauce, [474]
Sweetbread, [343], [569]
—— soup, [266]
——, stewed, [344]
Sweetmeat nuts, [219]
Swill-tubs condemned, [49]
Swimming, [886]
—— dresses, [718]
Swiss cream, [156]
—— darn, [898]
—— eggs, [459]
—— omelets, [457]
—— pastry, [434]
—— pudding, [434]
—— roll, [435]
Switches for electric light, [95]
Swizzle, [516]
Syllabubs, [205]
Syrian curtains, [98]
Syrup for ices, [441]
—— of senna, [779]
Syrups, candying, [175]
—— for aerated drinks, [173]
——, fruit, preventing fermentation of, [175]
——, preparing, [174]
——, preserving, [175]
——, soda-water, red colouring for, [176]
Tables, drawing-room, [97]
Tainted dripping, [112]
—— meat, [112]
Tamarind fish, [302], [503]
Tanks, rain-water, [15], [16]
Tansy pudding, [435]
Tapestry carpets, [97]
Tapioca and apples, [389]
——, buying, [578]
—— cream, [435]
—— pudding, [435]
—— snow, [435]
—— soufflé, [435]
—— soup, [266]
Taps for drinking-water, [45]
Tar, removing from hands, [533]
—— stains, removing, [555]
Tarragon vinegar, [137]
Tartar emetic poisoning, [793]
Tartare sauce, [474]
Tauf, [513]
Tauk dolmas, [513]
Taxes, [957]
Tea as a drink, [604]
——, beef, [316]
—— cake, [219]
——, testing, [520]
——, veal, [344]
Teaching, [865]
Tea-kettle broth, [266]
Teal, [568], [580], [581]
Teapot, cleaning, [547]
Tears of the widow of Malabar cordial, [189]
Teas, [642]
——, high, [645]
Teething, [752]
Telephone, [103]
Tellemarken dress, [739]
Temperature for setting milk, [158]
—— of dairy, [154]
—— of patient, [764]
—— of sickroom, [755]
Temptations of St. Anthony, [682]
Tenancy, determination of, [957]
Tench, [302], [580]
——, broiled, [302]
——, roast, [302]
——, stewed, [382]
Tent cordial, [189]
Test for drinking-water, [24]
Testing air, [55], [518]
—— bread, [520]
—— butter, [520]
—— cocoa, [521]
—— coffee, [521]
—— drainage system, [40]
—— drains, [52]
—— eggs, [922]
—— foods, [519]
—— gas pipes, [92]
—— milk, [520]
—— pepper, [521]
—— pickles, [521]
—— tea, [520]
—— water, [519]
Textile goods, cleaning, [547]
Thames Bank Iron Co.’s stove, [71]
Thatched roof, [5]
Thawing pipes, [847]
Theatricals, amateur, [654]
Thermometer, clinical, [764]
Thick gingerbread, [219]
Thieves, precautions, [108]
Thirst, [603]
Thomas and Taylor’s churn, [158]
Thorncliffe range, [228]
Thunder, artificial, [656]
Tile floors, [7]
—— roof, [7]
Tiles, glazed, [96]
Tin saucepans, [238]
Tincture of arnica, [779]
—— of chiretta, [779]
—— of colchicum, [779]
—— of henbane, [779]
—— of lavender, [779]
—— of quinine, [779]
—— of rhubarb, [779]
—— of squills, [780]
—— of steel, [780]
—— of valerian, [780]
Tinned meat collops, [307]
—— ——, cooking, [307]
—— —— in batter, [307]
—— ——, Irish stew, [307]
—— ——, mince, [307]
—— —— patties, [307]
—— —— pie, [307]
—— —— pudding, [308]
—— —— sausage rolls, [308]
—— —— shape, [308]
—— —— stew, [308]
—— ——, Vienna steak, [308]
—— —— vinaigrette, [308]
Tipsy puddings, [435]
Titles and styles, [648]
Toast and water, [206]
——, fish, [271]
Tobacco pipes, cleaning, [555]
—— smoking, [606]
Toffee, [439], [499]
Toilet, [706]
—— table, [98]
Tolu ratafia, [190]
Tomato cheese, [449]
—— chutney, [133]
—— omelets, [457]
—— pickle, [136]
—— preserve, [153]
—— salad, [387]
—— sauce, [475], [504]
—— soup, [266]
Tomatoes, [576], [579], [582]
—— and eggs, [451]
—— and meat pudding, [380]
——, baked, [380], [484]
——, forced, [380]
——, keeping, [122]
—— stewed, [484]
——, stuffed, [380]
Tongue, [316]
——, salted, [131]
——, sheep’s, [329]
Tonic lemonade, [173]
Toothache, [825]
Toothbrushes, [708], [825]
Tooth powders, [824]
Tooth troubles, [824]
Tops and bottoms, [220]
Tortoise stove, [72]
Tourist outfit, [721]
Training, [870]
Transferring, [893]
Trapped drains, [52]
—— gullies for sinks, [50]
Trapping cistern pipes, [44]
—— w.c. waste pipe, [46]
Traps of w.c.’s, [46]
Travelling dress, [721]
Treacle pie, [436]
—— posset, [773]
—— pudding, [436]

Treasure range, [229]
Trees around dwellings, [2]
Trial by fire, [683]
Tricks and illusions, [664]
Trifle, [436]
Tripe, [337]
Triumph dance, [652]
Trousers, [711]
Trout, [352], [489], [568], [569], [570], [571], [573]
——, baked, [302]
——, broiled, [302]
——, grilled, [302]
—— jelly, [302]
——, potted, [132]
——, soused, [302]
——, stewed, [303]
—— with remoulade sauce, [303]
Truffle and chestnut stuffing, [366], [477]
—— sauce, [380], [477]
Truffles, [380], [579]
——, keeping, [122]
Tuginar, [514]
Turbines, [938]
Turbot, [303], [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [573], [576], [578], [582]
—— à la Normande, [303]
—— au gratin, [304]
——, boiled, [304]
——, carving, [622]
Turbot, fried, [304]
——, hashed, [304]
—— sauté, [304]
—— with tomato sauce, [304]
—— with white sauce, [304]
—— with wine sauce, [304]
Turkey, [366], [565], [566], [570], [571], [573], [578], [580], [581]
——, blanched, [366]
——, boiled, [366]
——, boning, [367]
——, braised, [366]
——, carving, [629]
——, devilled, [367]
——, forcemeat, [368]
——, galantine, [367]
—— gravy, [368]
——, grilled leg, [368]
—— patty, [368]
——, roast, [368]
——, stuffed, [511]
——, using up, [368]
—— with mushrooms, [368]
—— with oysters, [368]
Turkeys, keeping, [926]
Turkish baths, [831]
—— dishes, [511]
—— dress, [735]
Turned meat, [112]
Turning out gas, [85]
Turnip soup, [266]
—— tops, [381]
Turnips, [565], [568], [569], [570], [582]
——, boiled, [381]
——, mashed, [381]
Turpentine poisoning, [793]
Turtle soup, [266]
—— ——, mock, [259]
Tutti frutti, [436]
Twelfth cake, [216], [220]
Twice laid cod, [277]
Tying down bottles, [170]
Type for school-books, [863]
Tyrolean dress, [731]
Umido, [503]
Unconsciousness, [790]
Underclothing, [709]
Underfed grate, [71]
—— smoke-consuming kitchener, [228]
—— subjects, diet for, [597]
Underground water supply, [14]
Undressing, [708]
Utrecht velvet chairs, [98]
Valve closets, [47]
Vanilla cream, [436]
—— flavour, [480]
—— ice cream, [444]
—— sauce, [477]
—— soufflé, [436]
—— syrup, [178]
Vapour baths, [831]
Varnished walls, [99]
—— wood floors, [7]
Varnishing floors, [96]
Veal, [337]
—— and ham pie, [341]
——, braised loin, [337]
——, buying, [563], [565], [567], [569], [571], [573]
—— cake, [484]
——, carving, [626]
—— croquettes, [339]
——, curried, [339]
—— cutlets, [339]
—— fritters, [340]
——, hashed, [340]
—— kidney, [485]
——, minced, [340]
—— patties, [340]
—— pie, [341]
—— quenelles, [341]
——, roast, [342]
——, rolled, [342]
—— scallops, [342]
—— shape, [342]
——, stewed breast, [343]
—— stock,

[246]
—— suet pudding, [343]
——, sweetbread, [343]
—— tea, [344]
——, vol au vent, [344]
Vegetable carbon as a filter, [23]
—— curry, [496]
—— foods, [591]
—— garden, [930]
—— marrow, [381], [573], [574]
—— —— flowers, stuffed, [506]
—— —— preserve, [153]
—— —— soup, [267]
—— marrows, keeping, [114], [122]
—— ——, stuffed, [381], [512]
—— soup, [267]
—— stock, [246]
Vegetables, [371]
——, buying, [565], [566], [568], [569], [570], [572], [573], [574], [576], [578], [582]
——, eating, [634]
——, keeping, [113]
Vegetarian dinners, [639]
Veils, [713]
Vellum, cleaning, [542]
Velocipeding, [886]
Velvet joining, [894]
Venice cake, [220]
Venison, [369]
——, buying, [563], [571], [573], [575], [580], [581]
——, carving, [62]
—— collops, [369]
——, hashed, [370]
—— pasty, [370]
——, roast haunch, [369]
—— stew, [370]
Venomous bites, [781]
Ventilating by gas, [87], [90]
—— by the chimney, [57]
—— cellar, [168]
—— cowls, [59]
—— sickroom, [755]
—— soil pipes, [49]
—— walls, [5]
Ventilation, [55]
—— by fires, [55]
—— by glass louvres, [56]
—— by perforated panes, [56]
—— by windows, [55]
—— of dairy, [154]
—— of drains, [38]
—— of w.c.’s, [46]
—— pipes, [43]
—— through side walls, [57]
—— without draught, [55]
Ventilators, filtering, [57]
—— for kitchen range, [226]
—— in ovens, [224]
—— necessary for gas, [85]
Venus pudding, [436]
Vermicelli soup, [267]
Vermin, destroying, [556]
—— killers, poisoning by, [793]
Vermouth liqueur, [190]
Vestry, inspection of drains by, [54]
Victoria pudding, [436]
—— soup, [267]
Vienna bread, [220]
—— steak, [308]
Vinaigrette, [308]
——, beef, [316]
Vinegar, [136]
——, making, [136]
—— plant, [136]
——, primrose, [136]
——, raspberry, [137]
——, tarragon, [137]
Vint, [696]
Violet ratafia, [190]
Violin, cleaning, [555]
—— bow, cleaning, [556]
Visitors to patient, [758]
Voice, loss of, [803]
Vote, [962]
Waffles, [437], [486]
Wages, law of, [959]
Waiting at table, [607]
Wakefulness, [703]
Walking dress, [722]
Wallachian dress, [731]
Wall-papers, [99], [101]
—— - ——, cleaning, [556]
Walls absorbing water, [4]
——, basement, [96]
——, bedroom, [101], [699]
——, coloured, [99]
——, dairy, [154]
——, decorating, [99]
——, draining, [5]
——, kitchen, [96]
——, night nursery, [102]
——, nursery, [101], [746]
——, painted, [99]
——, passage, [96]
——, scullery, [96]
——, varnished, [99]
——, ventilating, [5]
——, —— through, [57]
——, waterproofing, [8]
Walnut ketchup, [134]
—— pickle, [137]
—— ratafia, [190]
Walnuts, [573], [579]
——, keeping, [123]
——, preserved, [153]
Want of draught in ranges, [225]
Wardrobe, [98]
Warming, [60]
——, American stoves, [70]
—— bedroom, [699]
——, blower, [80]
—— by chemicals, [82]
—— by gas, [77]
—— by high-pressure water, [81]
—— hot air, [60]
—— by hot water, [80]
—— by oil stoves, [79]
—— by steam, [81], [82]
——, causes of heat, [61]

——, close-fire stoves, [71]
——, combustion, [61]
——, convoluted stoves, [74]
——, drum principle, [76]
—— economisers, [63]
——, economising kitchen heat, [76]
——, effects of heat, [60]
——, flues, [79]
—— fresh air, [77]
——, gas hot-air stove, [78]
——, German stoves, [74]
——, gill stoves, [73]
——, hot-air furnace, [75]
——, lighting fires, [64]
—— milk pans, [155]
——, modern open grates, [65]
—— northerly rooms, [77]
—— open grates, [61]
—— open stove, [62]
——, Pridgin Teale on, [62]
——, principles, [60]
——, —— of grates, [61]
——, radiant heat, [60]
——, rules for grates, [62]
——, slow-combustion stoves, [72]
——, sluggish draught, [80]
——, smoky chimney, [80]
——, underfed grate, [71]
——, varieties of grate, [61]
Warts, [825]
Washing by steam, [848]
—— casks, [169]
—— -copper, [848]
—— dairy utensils, [154], [156], [158]
—— floorcloth, [97]
—— hair, [810]
—— hands, [706]
—— infants, [748]
—— -machines, [851]
Washleather gloves, cleaning, [532]
Wash-out closets, [48]
Washstand, [98], [101]
Wasps, [561]
Wassail bowl, [206]
Waste of water, [12]
—— pipes of cisterns, [19], [44]
—— —— for sink, [45]
Watches, cleaning, [556]
Water absorbed by walls, [4]
——, amount required, [12]
—— as a drink, [603]
—— at high pressure, heating by, [81]
——, bacteria in, [23]
—— bath, [242]
—— cisterns, [18]
—— —— in roof, [39]
—— closets, [45]
—— ——, flushing, [48]
—— —— in bedroom, [49]
—— ——, position of, [47], [48]
—— ——, qualifications, [47]
—— ——, safe tray, [46]
—— ——, seats, [48]
—— —— supply of water, [44]
—— ——, trapping waste pipe, [40]
—— ——, traps, [46]
—— ——, ventilation of, [46]
—— ——, water contaminated by, [40]
—— ——, water-waste preventers for, [50]
—— contaminated in the cisterns, [39]
—— —— from w.c., [40]
——, drinking, [519]
—— essential in diet, [601]
—— gruel, [410]
——, hard, [519]
—— heating, [78]
—— in gas pipes, [85]
——, law of, [958]
—— pans for ovens, [224]
—— pipes, [19]
—— power, [937]
——, purification, [16], [23]
—— service pipes, [20]
——, soft, [519]
——, sources of, [13]
——, storing in cisterns, [19]
—— supply, [12]
—— —— to w.c.’s, [44]
——, surface soakage, [14]
——, test for purity, [24]
——, testing, [519]
——, underground supply, [14]
——, waste of, [12]
—— —— preventers, [50]
——, when potable, [604]
Watercress and potable water, [604]
—— butter, [477]
—— salad, [387]
Water lentil and non-potable water, [604]
Waterproofing walls, [8]
Waterproofs, [714]
Wax for bottling, [138]
Weak subjects, diet for, [597]
Weaning infants, [750]
Weather influence on diet, [595]
Wedding breakfasts, [646]
Weevil in malt, [180]
Weight as a guide to health, [602]
Well-drained house, [37]
Wells, [14]
—— contaminated by floods, [55]
——, dangers of, [14]
——, demand on, [15]
——, sinking, [15]
Welsh dress, [739]
—— rarebit, [449]
West Indian dishes, [514]
—— —— outfit, [727]
Westphalia loaves, [335]
Wet cloths for freshening air of rooms, [56]
Wharncliffe grate, [67]
Wheatears, [571], [572], [573]
Whelks, buying, [565]
Whipped cream, [403], [477]
Whist, Siberian, [696]
White bread, [593]
—— cabbage salad, [484]
—— precipitate poisoning, [793]
—— sauce, [379], [477]
—— salmon, [573]
—— sharp sauce, [474]
—— soup, [267]
—— stock, [246]
—— wine negus, [206]
Whitebait, [304], [567], [569], [570], [573]
——, fried, [304]
Whiting, [305], [565], [566], [569], [570], [571], [573], [578], [580], [582]
—— à la Venetienne, [305]
—— au gratin, [305]
—— aux fines herbes, [305]
——, baked, [305]
——, carving, [622]
——, dressed, [306]
——, fillets, [306]
——, fried, [306]
—— in jelly, [306]
—— puddings, [306]
Whole meal, [593]
Whooping cough, [802]
Whortleberry cakes, [484]
Widgeon, [568], [580], [581]
Wigs, [437]
Wild cherry bitters, [181]
—— duck, [565], [566], [573], [580], [581]
—— —— sauce, [478]
Wildfowl, [371]
——, carving, [631]
——, grilled, [371]
——, roast, [371]
——, salmis, [371]
Willesden paper roof, [6]
Will-o’-the-Wisp, [681]
Wilson range, [229]
Wind as a motive power, [936]
—— machine, [657]
Window fastenings, [108]
Windows, area of, [82]
——, burglar-proof, [108]
——, cleaning, [529]
——, curing steam on, [83]
——, dairy, [155]
——, decorating, [100]
——, double, [60], [83]
—— for cold climates, [60]
—— for ventilation, [55]
——, heat lost by, [60]
——, nursery, [101]
——, perforated panes for ventilating, [56]
——, sickroom, [756]
——, stopping chinks in, [56]
Wine as food, [602]
——, barreling, [190]
—— bins, [190]
—— biscuits, [220]
—— bottling, [190]
——, cooling, [191]
——, dinner, [641]
——, drinking, [635]
——, fermenting, [190]
——, fruit for, [190]
——, home-made, [190]
—— jelly, [437]
—— making, [190]
——, racking off, [190]
—— roll, [437]
—— sauce, [478]
Winkles, buying, [565]
Winter cream, [437]
Wiring bobbins for bell, [107]
Wizard’s incantation, [681]
Wonderful jugglers, [680]
Wood charcoal as a filter, [23]
Woodcock, [565], [566], [568], [580], [581]
——, carving, [630]
—— on toast, [371]
——, roast, [371]
Wooden cisterns, [19]
—— floors, [7]
—— slate roof, [6]
Worcester sauce, [478]
Workroom, [890]
Wormwood liqueur, [190]
Wounds, [788]
Wright’s gas cooker, [235]
Writing, [864]
—— letters, [649]
Wrought-iron cisterns, [19]
Yachting dress, [722]
Yeast, brewers’, [207]
——, German, [208]
——, making, [208]
Yeasts in cheese, [161]
Yewberry poisoning, [793]
York biscuits, [220]
Yorkshire cake, [220]
—— pudding, [437]
—— range, [231]
Yule cake, [220]
Zinc-lined cisterns, [19]
—— vessels, cleaning, [540]
Zrazy, [507]
Zuchillo, [504]
—— sauce, [476]
Zweibach,

[495]
Zwetschen brandy, [188]

For Index to Supplement, see p. [1010].

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SUPPLEMENT.

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The Dwelling: Water Closets. Continued from p. [48].

Messrs. Reid & Co., 69, St. Mary Axe, London, are well known as makers of Pearson’s “Twin Basin” Water Closets. These closets hardly need recommendation, they have stood the test of many years’ use in Hospitals, Schools, Railway Stations, Mansions, Warehouses, &c., with the best results. The “Portable” Water Closets made by this firm are indispensable for invalids’ apartments, and are also of great service where there is no proper system of drainage.

Ventilation. Continued from p. [60].

Automatic ventilation connected with the “Acme” system of heating (The Acme Ventilating and Heating Co., 35, Tarleton Street, Liverpool) and the Company’s patented system of graduated extraction flues, can be arranged in the following manner. A foul air chamber is formed of wood-work, and if desired lined with zinc, and fixed under the roof, into which channels of suitable dimensions are led from the perforated ceiling ornaments in the different apartments. The channels enter near the floor, so that impure air issuing and coming in contact with the highly heated surfaces of the hot water coil in the chamber, the foul air immediately rises to the roof, and is being constantly carried away through louvres into the open air. These louvres can be made to close in frosty or stormy weather, or when the apparatus is not in use. This coil (for ventilation purposes), together with that which heats the water for the bath and lavatories, can be connected to a separate furnace, so that either one or both can be in operation in the summer if required.

Another arrangement of ventilation (where hot water coils are not in use) is as follows: powerful rings of gas burners—each ring being placed inside a sheet-iron tube—are fixed in flue near the roof, or in the apex of roof in churches, &c. Into this the foul air is drawn by a powerful induced current, created by the novel manner in which the heat in the tubes is arranged, the foul air being finally carried away in a similar manner to that described in the foregoing paragraph. For dwelling houses the said rings of gas jets may be governed by a small master light which cannot be blown out, and which may be regulated by two small cords attached to a lever leading from landing, or other convenient position. The one small master light is constantly kept burning when others are turned off. Such master light costs but 2d. per annum at the most for gas; no matches are necessary, and there is perfect safety from fire. This is a most efficient and satisfactory means of ventilation, and far preferable to any of the revolving cowls, air pumps, and other unsightly and perishable systems.

The “Acme” patent system of mechanical ventilation, connected with hot water heating, is unequalled for public institutions, asylums, prisons, police courts, infirmaries, or other public buildings where many people are assembled; or where—as in hospitals—from the nature of the complaints, the air requires to be changed very often, and that without draughts.

By placing coils of pipe in the wards to be warmed, and passing fresh air, also previously heated, through them in such a manner that no draught whatever is caused, or by placing all the pipes in the basement, into and through which the fresh air is drawn by an “Acme” patent ventilating machine. Such warmed air is thence passed through properly regulated channels into the different rooms, each channel being provided with a valve worked from any convenient or central position, so as to regulate the supply of fresh air as circumstances may require.

Ventilating and heating as carried out by the “Acme” system, co-operate in establishing the most permanent and satisfactory results.

Blackman Ventilating Co. See page 2 of Advertisements.

221. Sugg’s Continuous Up-Draught Ventilator.

Sugg’s Continuous Up-Draught Ventilator.—This new ventilator is submitted to the consideration of architects as embodying a novel system. It has been the custom hitherto to guard against down-draughts by fixing talc flapper arrangements at the lower ends of ventilating shafts (in the case of the lower floors of buildings), and to adopt either a sliding door or revolving shutter worked by cords from the floor to ventilators fixed at the roof ridge. It is clear that, with these arrangements, the outer cold air has free access through the cowl to the ventilating shaft, and, in fact, right down to the back-draught preventers, or shutters, at the lower end of the shaft. With this continuous up-draught ventilator the valve is in the cowl, and is opened by the up draught. Thus the whole of the shaft, right from the room to the cowl, is filled always by the warm air of the room, and is never allowed to become cold and damp by the ingress of the outer air. The valve impedes the outward passage of the foul air as little as (or less than) the old-fashioned talc flappers. It is noiseless, cannot get out of order, and its combination with the cowl renders the entire apparatus the cheapest and most effective extracting cowl and down-draught preventer in the market.

The reliance placed upon the strength of the up-draught to open the valve is based:—First—On the extraordinary aspirating power of this form of cowl. Most ventilators only expose one side at a time to the wind’s action, but this one allows its entire area (more than equal to the area of the tube) to be acted upon at the same moment. Secondly—Upon the fact that beneath the valve is a column of warmed air. The loss in ascending energy caused by cold flues may be put down, as an average, at 40 per cent., but the adoption of this new “exit valve” system conserves the power of the current to almost its fullest extent. With the continuous up-draught ventilator the great ventilating agents—the aspiration of the wind and the movements of air at different tensions—are utilised in a very great degree, and experiments prove the justification in claiming for it results never before attained.

Some of its advantages are as follows:—(1) It is noiseless in its action and is weatherproof. No water can by any means get down the ventilating tube. (2) It extracts powerfully when the least current of air impinges upon it. The whole surface of the ventilator comes into action immediately, and a continuous up-draught is produced at all times. (3) It is fitted with a new patent automatic float valve, which is exceedingly simple in action, and cannot get out of order. It opens with an up-current and shuts when this current ceases. Thus, down-draught is impossible. Not only those down-draughts caused by wind movements, but also those induced by the specific gravity of the cold air in the ventilating tubes, hitherto incurable, are completely prevented. (4) It is well and strongly made, is complete in itself, cannot get out of order, and will last for years. It is made in sizes from 2 to 18 in., and is made in zinc, galvanized iron or polished copper. It is also made in special ornamental forms for large buildings, prices of which will be given on receiving size of air shaft and pitch of roof. (5) It is specially adapted for use with sun burners, gas fires, &c. The heat of horizontal tubes, particularly when lined with asbestos according to Sugg’s plan, contributes to its extracting energy, while the valve effectually prevents any of those down-draughts so often associated with this mode of ventilation. (6) This system of ventilation and lighting works without attention. It can be put in operation at a moment’s notice. By its use can be guaranteed not only the most effective lighting, but also a controllable and absolutely reliable induction and eduction of air from any building. It is shown in Fig. 221, and is made by William Sugg & Co., Ld., Grand Hotel Buildings, Charing Cross, London, under Sugg and Simmance’s patents.

Warming: by Open Fire. Continued from p. [69].

“The Eagle Convertible Open and Close Fire-grate,” Fig. 37 (makers, Eagle Range and Foundry Co., 176, Regent Street, London), is one of the latest improvements, and is to be commended as possessing all the details advocated by Dr. Teale and others, viz. the grated bottom and economiser, to which in this case is attached an ashes pan for convenience and cleanliness, and the fire-brick sides and back, the latter projecting to deflect the heat, &c.; the front bars are somewhat flat in section, and incline up outwards at an angle of about 20 degrees, which effectually prevents cinders and fuel falling from the fire, and having the further advantage of making the front of the fire visible to any one standing near. The chief novelty of this grate is its possessing 3 pairs of doors, which when open fold back out of sight behind the tiled side panels, and can be closed, to partly or wholly cover any portion of the fireplace. Fig. 37 shows the stove with the two upper pairs of doors closed. When first lighting the fire, or when the fire has become very low, and is heavily fed, with the doors closed thus, a rapid draught is carried through the fire, which burns very rapidly, and is established in a few minutes, after which the upper doors are opened. By closing the two lower doors only, it can be left quite safe at night, and as there is no means of the air passing through the fire, the combustion is very slow, in fact it only smoulders, yet keeps up a warmth in the apartment, and it can be relied upon that it will not be out in the morning; this is of especial convenience in invalids’ rooms. This stove is, in the majority of cases, a sure cure for smoky chimneys, and has several other advantages that would occupy too much space here.

“The Parson’s Grate,” Fig. 38 (Barnards, Bishop and Barnards, Queen Victoria Street, London), is a very well-known and good form of slow-combustion grate, and has the advantage of being changed to a fast-combustion grate at will, by means of a sliding blower, when first igniting the fire or at any time that it is desired to make it burn briskly; the bottom, back and sides of the fire-basket are of solid fire-brick, and it will be seen from the illustration that the blower can be drawn down to any point and so regulate the draught and speed of combustion to a nicety; this is of especial convenience when the chimney has a tendency to smoke.

Warming: by Gas. Continued from p. [79].

Sugg’s Gas Fires.—During a greater part of the year in this country, the variations in the temperature are so great and sudden, that those persons who have weak throats, or are subject to bronchitis—especially children who have a tendency to croup—find the cold, air of the early mornings a source of great discomfort and even danger. Although by the use of coal fires, with constant attention, the temperature of a bedroom or sick room can be maintained as required during the day, yet at night it is next to impossible to do so. The fire, if properly made up, gets too hot in the first part of the night, and goes out in the early morning, so that the room gets cold. If it has to be made up, the noise of putting on coals, or poking the fire, is most disturbing in all cases, and positively unbearable to a sick person. The object of the gas fire is to obviate these inconveniences, and to maintain an equal temperature throughout the entire day and night if required. The construction of this stove differs from every other stove hitherto introduced. The burners act independently, each being regulated by its own governor, and each is provided with a separate tap. The arrangement of the fire by which the flames from the burners play freely into a space left between the solid bottom of the grate and the asbestos lumps, permits of the perfect combustion of the gas, and the attainment of the highest point of incandescence. The consumption of London gas is 7 cub. ft. per hour for each burner. The quantity of gas being regulated to its proper rate by the governors (the taps always being turned full on), it necessarily follows that the admixture of gas and air is always in the right proportion to develop the greatest radiant heat. This gas fire is always ready, and can easily be lighted without explosion by the most timid person, and in a few minutes it will be glowing. After the room is warmed to the required degree, one or more of the burners can be turned off, and the consumption reduced by 7 ft. for each burner so turned off, without affecting these left on, which still continue to develop their full heating power.

This latter is a great advantage, because in ordinary stoves, where the burners are all controlled by one tap, the reduction of gas at once produces more or less imperfect mixture of gas and air, with an imperfect combustion, accompanied with a disagreeable odour, and a very imperfect development of heat. From this cause, together with ungoverned burners, the consumer is frequently disappointed in the working of gas fires, and lays the blame on the principle of heating by gas, when the discomfort and waste of gas arise solely from the imperfect construction of the stove he is using. The cost of gas for Sugg’s Patent Charing Cross Bedroom Stove at full power is less than 1d. per hour. But as on a very cold night, a bedroom 20 ft. by 15 ft. by 10 ft. high, after being once warmed to 60° F., can be kept at a temperature of 58°-60° F. through the night by two of these burners left burning, the cost per hour for maintaining this temperature will be actually less than ½d. It will be readily seen that to keep a room warm by gas, at the price above mentioned, is cheaper than by using coal; and that if the readiness, saving in trouble, and the absence of all noise and dirt are taken into consideration, the advantages of gas over coal are simply incalculable. This stove is constructed with a chamber around the sides and back, which keeps up a circulation of warm air in the room; and if desired a fresh air flue may be connected to this chamber, thus supplying the room with warm fresh air. The asbestos material is carefully made at Sugg’s own factory; it is very durable, and gives out a good heat. The stove, when fixed in front of an ordinary chimney, is provided with a flue pipe, which is made to go up through the register to carry off the products of combustion. In most cases of smoky chimneys, where it is found impossible to use a coal fire, a small wind guard can be fitted to the chimney, which will prevent down-draught, and make the use of the gas fire successful. The fire is very bright and cheerful, and having been carefully tried for upwards of 3 years in all kinds of weather, its successful working can be guaranteed. Directions for measuring grates, to enable a “Charing Cross” gas fire to be sent complete, and ready for fixing by an intelligent gasfitter, in any part of the kingdom, are furnished by the makers, William Sugg & Co., Limited, Grand Hotel Buildings, Charing Cross, London, whose illustrated catalogues show innumerable patterns of stove, adapted for halls, bedrooms, libraries, nurseries, &c., at various prices.

Cadogan Gas Fires.—A specially prepared indestructible fire clay lump is fitted into the grate and covered with small pieces of asbestos fuel, which should be carefully packed, so as to allow the gas flames a free action without any loss. The fire clay lump has apertures through which the gas flames pass from a swing bar, fitted in front of and underneath the grate, the gas supply being connected up with the bar either at the back or front of the hearth. The bar has an air-chamber fitted to it, so that the gas is consumed on the atmospheric principle, being, for heating purposes, the most economical, and one preventing the formation of soot, thus keeping the fire always clear and the grate clean.

A regulating valve can be fitted in a convenient position, either in front or at side of hearth, so that the gas may be controlled as easily as an ordinary gas burner.

To burn the gas economically, the flames should not be allowed to show much above the top of the fuel.

These fires are eminently suitable for all modern grates, but they can be fitted into most grates of old-fashioned pattern. Messrs. Strode & Co., 48, Osnaburgh Street, London, N.W., will advise as to their applicability on receipt of templet of grate, which can be made by cutting a piece of paper to the size of bottom of grate, and pencilling the openings.

Warming: by Hot-water. Continued from p. [82].

S. Deards’s coil adapted to open grates ensures healthy heating and perfect ventilation. The coil pipes are so adapted as to form the bars of an ordinary grate, and yet so arranged as to contain water, which, as soon as the fire is lighted, will put into circulation the water contained therein, and the coil grate being attached to other similar pipes, so arranged in any convenient position around the walls of the room or any adjacent room, hall, landing, or passage, will at once transmit that heat to those rooms, &c., without extra cost or expense of fuel. It is apparent and well known to all practical persons that the heat given out from the sides and back of an ordinary fire grate is actually lost in the brickwork surrounding it, yet by the application of S. Deards’s coil grates, that otherwise lost heat is retained and made use of, and it is by this heat that the other rooms are warmed for nothing.

The heating of schoolrooms by means of hot-water is often objected to by scientific men, doctors, and architects, as by doing away with the open cheerful fire, and the chimney shaft, the cheerfulness of the room is destroyed; and the “lungs of the schoolroom” being the ventilation by the chimney shaft is also absolutely lost. But by the adoption of the above-named coil grate the cheerful open fire is retained, the chimney still acts as the ventilator to carry off all foul air, and the furthermost parts of the schoolroom are as equally warmed by the circulation of hot-water as in the immediate vicinity of the fire.

222. The Princess Louise Coil Grate.

The Princess Louise coil grate was awarded the First Prize at the Smoke Abatement Exhibition, in 1882, for giving the greatest amount of heat per lb. of coal consumed. It is now improved so as to burn 18 to 20 hours without attention; hence it is possible to heat a greenhouse or conservatory from one’s own fireside, and in fact to obtain all the hot-water for the baths, &c., of a household for no extra expense. It is shown in front view in Fig. 222, and can be seen in action at S. Deards’s show rooms, 11, North Buildings, Eldon Street, Liverpool Street, London, and at Harlow, Essex.

The “Acme” small bore pipe apparatus (The Acme Ventilating and Heating Co., 35, Tarleton Street, Liverpool) is one of the most economical, rapid, and perfect systems of heating. This system consists of strong wrought-iron tubes of best quality procurable, of 1⁵/₁₆ in. external diameter and ⅞ in. bore, the ends of which are provided with right and left hand threaded screws. They are connected together right and left hand, which, when screwed up, brings the coned end of one tube into the flattened end of the other, thus making a perfectly sound hydraulic joint—in fact, such joint is actually stronger than the tube itself, the threaded screws are not intended to make any joint excepting by the power applied in forcing the conical end to the opposite flat end of tube, which generally makes an indentation of about ¹/₁₆ in.: this forms the joint, the cone making its own seat, and when once fitted, water has no access to the screw in the socket, which, therefore, cannot rust, and may be unscrewed at any time without trouble. This joint is not affected by expansion and contraction, which is a constant source of annoyance and expense where the ordinary form of joint is used, as with the large cast-iron hot water pipes used in the low pressure systems. The “Acme” system offers the further advantage of readily allowing any tube to be disconnected and removed without disturbing the rest.

A large portion of the said tubes form the boiler or furnace, which, being fixed at the lowest level, forms one of the most rapid and economical furnaces known. Smaller furnaces, with wrought or cast-iron casings, with coils of pipes built in fire-bricks, are used for small buildings, halls, corridors, or offices.

An ordinary fire-grate may be utilised by a few feet of piping being coiled and placed in same, forming the fire-bars and back of grate, which constitutes a boiler in itself, and is connected with other piping connecting with adjacent apartments. As many as three or four bedrooms, or a suite of offices, may be comfortably heated from the one fire.

The apparatus consists of an endless circuit of strong wrought-iron tubes (all of the same diameter), filled with water. It is thoroughly tested under a hydraulic pressure of about 3000 lb. per sq. in., so as to ensure that the joints, and all parts of the apparatus, are perfectly safe and sound. The fire being lighted, the water circulation commences, as the water in the furnace-coil becomes heated, it ascends to the top of the apparatus, whilst the cold water, being heavier, descends, to supply the place of the ascending heated water, and thus a continuous circulation of hot water is kept up, which rapidly increases in velocity, through the pipes, as the heat in the furnace becomes greater. The tubes are kept absolutely full without the possibility of a higher pressure than that at which the expansion valve is set, and this setting corresponds with the temperature the pipes are intended to give off. As will be seen, a very large margin of safety is provided for in every case, much beyond the maximum pressure by heat that can possibly be obtained. Formation of steam is impossible, as is also the stoppage of the circulation through air locking.

The superior quality and small diameter of the tubes, and the ready manner in which they can be bent, makes it the most complete system extant. The “Acme” apparatus is equally well adapted to old or new buildings, as it may be introduced without disturbance of existing arrangements, and does not necessarily require the construction of trenches or channels, an inconvenience in other systems which often prevents their adoption. The preliminary expenses in introducing the “Acme” system are very trifling, and as the circulation does not depend upon the tubes being laid at an incline, the apparatus is not unsightly or in the way.

All the difficulties arising from condensation, air stoppage, and the consequent necessity for attention to valves and air-cocks (as in other systems) are avoided—so simple, indeed, is the apparatus that it may safely be left to the care of any ordinary house-servant. Fixed close to the expansion (or safety) tube is another tube for supplying the apparatus with water. Beyond the necessity of attending to the furnace, it is only requisite to see that the tube is supplied with a proper quantity of water about once a week (when in constant operation), this, in an ordinary sized apparatus, is about ½ pint. If this arrangement is not convenient, a small cistern of sufficient capacity to hold the expanded water can be fixed, inside of which is placed an expansion and in-take valve. The expansion tube and the water supply pipe are so arranged that when the water is level with the top of the filling pipe it is only up to the bottom of the expansion tube, leaving the whole of the tube empty. It is, therefore, impossible to fill the tube by pouring water into it, the expansion tube being always empty when the apparatus is cold. Before the fire is lit, the apparatus is filled with water, and the two screw-plugs seal them; as the water rises in the tube, when the furnace becomes heated, it compresses the air that is left in it, and so automatically regulates the pressure that no undue strain is put upon the apparatus.

Instances are known where Acme apparatus have been in use for over 20 years without entailing the least expense for repairs. When erected, they are tested by hydraulic means to a pressure of 150 atmospheres, and the valve is regulated to blow off at six atmospheres—it is manifest that, with proper care, leaks or accidents are of very rare occurrence. The material throughout being of best wrought iron, breakage is impossible, even with the roughest usage; hence the cost of maintenance, often such a heavy item incidental to other systems, is avoided. With the “Acme” system repairs are practically nil; further there is no trouble and no sulphurous smells. Where trouble and expense have been experienced with small pipes, they have invariably been the result of bad workmanship, or of neglect by the attendant of the simple instructions given.

The heating surfaces can be regulated to the utmost nicety, and may be raised to very high temperatures without the formation of steam. The system is, therefore, specially applicable for drying-closets and stoves for manufacturing purposes, where great heat is required, and where systems of hot-air flues are not expedient on account of danger from fire or damage by noxious vapours. Any degree of temperature up to 500° F. may be obtained.

In the “Acme” system the ordinary boiler is replaced by a series of specially constructed tubes, bent in tiers one over the other. The fire and heat are induced to travel over the whole surface of the tubes. The temperature of the tubes steadily increases throughout their entire length; hence great economy of fuel is secured. It is manifest that the temperature of the smoke, as it passes into the flue, need only be slightly in excess of the temperature of the return pipes, say about 190° F., whereas in the ordinary boiler, where perfectly free circulation is possible, and the temperature of the water is practically the same throughout, the heat of the flow-pipes governs that of the chimney. As the practical result, it may be said that about 90 per cent. of the calorific power of the fuel consumed is actually taken up and distributed by the heating surfaces of the “Acme” apparatus. This, as against 40 to 70 per cent. in the case of hot water, and steam boilers, or of cast-iron hot water apparatus (low pressure large bore-pipes), is a source of economy. Another notable source of economy is the remarkably small amount of fuel necessary to the effective working of the “Acme” system. The comparison between the two stands as 8 to 1, in consequence of the difference in the weight of the materials used in each system to obtain like results.

Buildings warmed by the “Acme” system are more thoroughly under control than where large pipes are used; the tubes being so small, contain but little water, consequently are more quickly heated, causing much greater rapidity of circulation. The temperature can be easily raised or lowered—automatically if desired—and the heat maintained for any length of time at pleasure. This is an obvious advantage in warming conservatories, as the temperature can be quickly raised when frost suddenly sets in, or lowered without opening the windows when a thaw commences. The heat of the house may be maintained at the requisite temperature without attention during the night, it simply being necessary to make the fire-place large enough to contain sufficient quantity of fuel, as the damper regulates the combustion. Where a moist heat is desired, such can readily be obtained at any given point by placing trays of water upon the pipes, or on a coil of pipes, thus giving the moisture so essential to the health of plants.

It has been supposed that the sediment from the water would soon choke the tubes, but as they are hermetically sealed there is no evaporation, and the same water being heated over and over again there is no deposit, and the remote possibility of incrustation is entirely overcome by using a small quantity of the patent anti-corrosion and non-freezing liquid.

There are no red lead or luting or perishable rubber joints used in connecting the pipes, but a perfectly solid metallic contact is made.

In applying the “Acme” apparatus to dwellings the warming pipes can be placed in any desired position along the skirting, under windows, coiled and covered by ornamental coil cases of various sizes and patterns, or pipes sunk beneath the floor in a channel. In the best rooms the pipes may be covered by iron gratings, of any design, to suit the other decorations of the building, while in servants’ rooms they may be placed in front of the skirting boards on suitable iron stands or brackets.

Fresh air is admitted into each compartment by an opening in the external wall through an iron box fitted with a valve to regulate the supply, and warmed by a surrounding coil of pipe. This can be placed beneath the windows, or when that is not convenient, in any other desired position, and if desired, may be covered with an ornamental iron coil case.

Warm water for bath and bedrooms may be drawn as required by having a cistern attached to the apparatus.

Lighting: Gas. Continued from p. [93].

An exceptionally good governor is that introduced by Joseph Shaw, of Albert Brass Works, Lockwood, Huddersfield, and 41, Hart Street, New Oxford Street, London, W.C. This is illustrated in Fig. 223. A searching trial of this governor was made a few months since, by Thos. Newbigging, Esq., M. Inst. C.E., who reports on it as follows:—

“I have tested the ‘Shaw’ gas governor which you forwarded out of stock, in the various circumstances under which gas is ordinarily consumed, and I pronounce it to be a satisfactory and trustworthy instrument in every respect.

“The pressure of gas in the mains is usually in excess of the average requirements of consumers, owing to circumstances over which the gas authorities have no control.

“The lower the pressure at which gas is consumed, the smaller the consumption and the better the light, provided the pipes and the pressure are sufficient to admit of the required volume of gas passing to the burners.

“Regulation by means of a stop tap at the meter, or near to the burner, is impossible owing to the varying pressures during the hours of consumption, and hence the need of a regulator or governor which will adapt itself automatically to the changing conditions.

“Shaw’s governor performs that function with certainty and constancy.

“With a series of ordinary burners, regulated by the ‘Shaw’ governor the consumption of gas per hour was 28 cubic feet, and each one gave an illuminating power equal to 15·25 standard sperm candles; whereas with the same burners, consuming the same gas, but ungoverned, the consumption was 33·8 cubic feet per hour, and each gave an illuminating power of 13·7 standard candles.

“The governed burners were then extinguished one by one, and the consumption and illuminating power remained constant.

“The saving in gas by the application of the ‘Shaw’ governor was therefore 17·16 per cent., whilst the illuminating power of the gas was increased 11·31 per cent.

“These results need no comment, as they speak for themselves.

223. Shaw Governor.

“The governor may be said to be practically indestructible under ordinary good usage, and the ease with which the working parts can be reached for cleaning when required, without detaching the instrument from its position, is an important recommendation, and adds to its value.”

Subjoined is a copy of the gas account of the Salford Union Workhouse:—

	£	s.	d.
March quarter, 1889	127	8	11
” ” 1890	75	2	1
	—————
	£52	6	10

This saving in three months was effected by the use of Shaw’s governors, which cost 33l., and will continue to produce a similar economy indefinitely.

Price List, including Lock and Key.

								Brass Union Connections,
								per pair.
				£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
No. 1.—For	½	inch	ce pipe	1	15	0		0	2	0
” 2.— ”	¾	”	”	2	15	0		0	3	0
” 3.— ”	1	”	”	3	15	0		0	4	0
” 4.— ”	1¼	”	”	5	0	0		0	7	6
” 5.— ”	1½	”	”	6	0	0		0	9	0
” 7.— ”	2	”	”	8	0	0		0	17	0
” 8.— ”	2½	”	”	11	0	0	}	These sizes
” 9.— ”	3	”	”	13	10	0	}	are cast
” 10.— ”	4	”	”	17	10	0	}	with flanges.

224. Shaw’s Reflector.

Another economizer of light is the Shaw self-cleaning reflector, made by the same firm. It consumes its own smoke, is easily fixed to present gas fittings, and is simple, efficient, durable, and cheap. It is shown in Fig. 224 in its plainest, simplest form. Many other more elaborate designs are made in ornamental wrought ironwork and enamelled ware.

225. Müller’s “Alpha” Gas-maker.

Fig. 225 illustrates the most convenient and useful plant adapted to the home manufacture of illuminating gas, known as the “Alpha.” It is constructed by the patentee, H. L. Müller, of Mary Ann St., St. Paul’s Square, Birmingham, and has recently had some improvements added. The process of gas making by this plant consists simply in combining atmospheric air with a light hydro-carbon in a state of vapour. There are many available forms of such light hydro-carbon derived from mineral oils, shales, and coal tar. When air is charged with such vapours it forms a mixture that can be ignited and burned. But the most successful results cannot be attained without certain important conditions are fulfilled, which are carefully provided for in Müller’s apparatus. In many respects the illuminating agent thus produced is superior to coal gas. Its cost is certainly no greater, and in some instances considerably less; the supply can be placed under control, instead of being liable to interruption through strikes and other causes; the light is bright and pleasant; and the vapour being pure is much less unwholesome to breathe, less unpleasant to smell, and less injurious to furniture, pictures, &c. The object of Müller and Adkin’s recent improvements is to completely control the flame, preventing any sudden increase above the normal, when fresh supplies of hydro-carbon are furnished to the apparatus. This is accomplished by a self-acting feed-box, which enables the reservoir to be replenished whilst the apparatus is in use, without in any way interfering with the lights which are burning. The system is being largely adopted in mansions and rural districts, where coal gas is not obtainable or is very dear, and can successfully compete with coal gas, even in localities where it is cheap. An additional advantage it possesses is that it furnishes a most convenient motive power for pumping, chaff-cutting, and the numerous other operations conducted in a country house.

Sugg’s Specialities.—In all matters relating to the use of coal gas in the house, whether for lighting, warming, or cooking purposes, the name of Sugg stands pre-eminent. To attempt to illustrate or describe all the appliances introduced by him, and sold by William Sugg & Co., Limited, Grand Hotel Buildings, Charing Cross, London, would require the space of a good-sized volume; even then it would not do justice to the inventor, because it could not include new things which are continually being perfected under his direction. This is especially the case with regard to gas burners, globes, and governors, of which hundreds of forms and designs can be seen at the show-rooms, all possessing some special quality of usefulness or ornament. Instead, therefore, of selecting a few examples for illustration, which would very inadequately represent the subject, it will be more just to recommend every user of gas to procure Sugg’s catalogue, and observe for himself those articles which best furnish his needs, not forgetting that the advice to be obtained from the maker is the result of a unique experience and long study, and therefore well worth taking to heart.

Lighting: Electric. Continued from p. [95].

During the past few years the manufacture of incandescent lamps has been developing rapidly, numerous improvements having been introduced, and by the use of high class of photometrical instruments in the examining rooms, the exact light-giving power of each lamp in standard candles is registered, the ordinary sizes being 5, 8, 12, 16, 25, 30, and 50, those of higher power being only suitable for halls, ball-rooms, &c. The manufacture in this country is, owing to patent monopolies, confined to two types, the Edison-Swan and the Woodhouse and Rawson, the difference between which is chiefly in the shape of the carbon. In the former, the carbon has a loop in it; in the latter, it is like a plain horse-shoe. In both cases the price is 3s. 6d. each for all sizes up to and including 30 candle power, but the Woodhouse and Rawson lamps consume less current for an equal amount of light, while the length of life is phenomenal, in one instance being close on 11,000 hours.

It is a very good plan to use the Trotter dioptric shades, in which the light is subdivided by numerous prisms, without any appreciable loss.

Formerly switches, to turn the lamps on and off, were a great source of trouble, being as a rule cheap and nasty. They are now, however, made of superior quality, being thoroughly mounted on either porcelain or slate, with ornamental covers harmonising with the wall of the room, fitted with spring arrangements preventing any sparking from taking place when turning the switch off, the brake being practically instantaneous. Those called the “W. & R. Diamond,” can be safely recommended as fulfilling all the requirements of the Fire Insurance Office rules. Various sizes are of course made, from a small switch to turn on one light to others to turn on say all the lights in a room, and large main switches which are used below in the engine-room for turning on as many as 500 lights. One great advantage is that the switch can if necessary be fixed outside the door of the room, so that the light can be turned on before entering.

Small switches are also made somewhat similar in design to a gas tap, for fixing just above the lamp and shade, and these are very convenient as supplementary switches to the main switch outside the door of the room; they cannot, however, be used for more than one light at a time.

Small independent cut-outs should be used in connection with each individual lamp or group of lamps, in order to add as much as possible to the security of the house. In addition to this, a magnetic cut-out should be fixed in the main circuit, by means of which the whole of the light would be automatically switched off, in the event of any dangerous excess of current passing through the wires. The cut-outs are as a rule so cheap and effective, that there is no real excuse for neglecting to use them, and under the rules of the Phœnix Fire Office, which are those chiefly worked to by the installation contractors, they have to be fixed in every circuit.

In confirmation of the above, we cannot do better than quote the following extract from the rules of the Phœnix Fire Office:—

“Any firm, by arranging to place inferior quality of work in your premises, can easily underprice firms that are more conscientious; and experience proves that inferior work is nearly certain to result in a fire breaking out sooner or later.”

Thieves and Fire. Continued from p. [110].

Shut all doors and windows immediately; every effort must be made to exclude air. By this means fire may be confined to a single room for a sufficient period to enable all the inmates to be aroused and escape; but if the doors and windows are thrown open, the draught will instantly cause the flames to increase. Moments are precious at the commencement of a fire, and not a second should be lost in tackling it. In a room a table-cloth can be so used as to smother a large sheet of flame, and a cushion, coat, or anything similar may be successfully used to beat it out. The great point is presence of mind—calmness in danger—action guided by reason and thought. In large houses buckets of water should be placed on each landing, a little salt or ammonia being mixed with the water. Always endeavour to attack the seat of a fire; if you cannot extinguish a fire, be sure to shut the door when making good your retreat. Make your way through smoke on hands and knees, keeping your face down as much as possible. A wet silk handkerchief tied over the eyes and nose will make breathing possible even in the midst of much smoke, and a blanket wetted and wrapped around the body will enable a person to pass through a sheet of flames in comparative safety.

For a chimney on fire.—Burn a handful of sulphur in the grate.

Burns.—In a serious burn, the clothes must be removed as soon as possible. If not already thoroughly wet, the injured part should be drenched with water, and the clothes cut away. Everything must be sacrificed to getting them off without pulling, as the slightest dragging will lacerate the skin. If patches of the clothing adhere and will not drop off they must be allowed to remain. Dip cloths in a thick paste of common baking soda and water, and lay them over the burnt surface, bandaging lightly to exclude the air. As soon as a dry spot appears on this dressing, wet it with the soda and water by squeezing some on it. There will be no smarting while it is saturated and the air excluded. If the feet are cold, heat should be applied. If the pulse is weak, give a little stimulant, and send for a doctor. Pain is a good sign in severe burns; it shows that there is still vitality. For slight burns, any oil is good (salad oil for preference); apply plentifully, and bandage to keep the cold out.

The Dairy. Continued from p. [167].

Bradford’s (Bradford & Co., 140, 141, 142, and 143, High Holborn, London; Salford, Manchester, and Liverpool) revolving-disc milk-pan stands are simple, substantial, portable, and utilise space, as they can be placed in line or in square—the revolving discs or tables allow of skimming each pan without moving from one position—being portable, they can be placed in the most desirable position for ventilation, and for thorough cleansing of the milkhouse walls, which fixed shelves do not admit of. Made to hold six pans. Larger sizes to order. Price (in iron) 2l. 2s.; (in wood) 3l. 3s.

The most satisfactory milk cooler is the capillary pattern, which is made in all sizes by Laurence, Bradford & Co.

Bradford’s “post-diaphragm” churn, and the same maker’s “Charlemont diaphragm” churn, have gained many first prizes, and are to be recommended.

The “Arch-Albany” butter worker, with helical roller, is also made by Bradford’s in all sizes to suit large or small dairies. It gained a silver medal at the R.A.S. Show at Plymouth, 1890.

The following additional books of reference deserve notice:—

J. Long: ‘British Dairy Farming.’ London. 1885.

H. M. Upton: ‘Profitable Dairy Farming.’ London. 1888. 2s.

C. R. Valentine: ‘Butter-making.’ London. 1889. 1s.

J. P. Sheldon: ‘The Farm and the Dairy.’ London. 1889. 2s. 6d.

J. Long: ‘The Dairy Farm.’ London. 1889.

The Pantry: Ovens and Bakings. Continued from p. [208].

There are several different systems of baking bread in the market, mostly with steam ovens, which are generally acknowledged to be superior to the ordinary bakers’ bread. It, however, will be found, by the examination of a loaf made and baked by the aid of gas, that this system is a great improvement over the best hitherto introduced. Moreover, the method is so simple that success is brought within reach of all who use a well-constructed gas kitchener.

In the preparation of bread by the usually adopted methods, the dough is allowed to rise in a warm place, and after being cut into loaves, is at once placed in an oven and heated up to its highest point, viz., 500°-600° F. In the case of bread made by the new method, the dough, which is leavened as usual with brewers’ or German dried yeast, is allowed to stand in a warm place and rise in the ordinary way. But after it is cut into loaves, it is treated in a manner diametrically opposite to that described above, for it is at once put into a cold gas oven, and the gas jets are lighted only sufficiently to produce a gradually increasing heat, not greater than 80° F. at the end of one hour, during which the loaves are left in the oven to rise.

The scientific explanation of the operation which is going on during this period is this. The yeast plant which grows and ramifies all through the bread has full time to do its work and make it light and open, and the plant is not killed until it has fully done its work. A smaller quantity of yeast will do the work of a larger quantity usually required because the comparatively low and regular temperature of the gas stove is favourable to its proper development throughout the bread. When the loaves have well-risen, the heat of the oven is gradually increased by turning on the gas. The yeast plant dies after about 90° F. is reached. The cooking then goes on, the heat steadily increasing until it reaches in about ¾ hour a temperature of 480°-500° F. The bread is by this time thoroughly cooked and beautifully browned, with a nice equal thickness of crust. During all this process no steam accumulates in the oven, which is Sugg’s “Westminster” (see p. [1004]), as the luminous flames supply a sharp dry heat and the ventilation is thorough. After the loaves are done they are taken out of the tins, and after the gas is turned out they are restored to the oven for 10 minutes to dry. They are then ready for use, and can be eaten as soon as they are cold. They will be found to be easily digestible even by invalids or persons of weak digestion.

The process has been seen and approved of by Dr. Charles, lecturer at St. Thomas’s Hospital, who moreover stated at his lectures on Food and Digestion, recently delivered at Westminster Town Hall, that it was a process which would produce good and thoroughly digestible bread. It is only by the use of gas that such a process of gradually heating the oven can be carried out, but the simple method here described enables every housekeeper, by the aid of gas, to produce bread and pastry which will be light and thoroughly digestible. The cost of gas to bake eight 1¼ lb. loaves is under ¾d.

For some time past, the baking of bread by this process has been carried on in the window of Sugg’s show-room, Grand Hotel Buildings, Charing Cross. The dough is prepared by young girls at the Works in Regency Street, and then baked in a “Westminster” oven, fitted with a glass door, so that the bread is visible during the whole time of baking. The loaves weigh 1¼ lb. each when put into the oven, and only slightly less when taken out perfectly cooked.

The Kitchen: Ranges. Continued from p. [235].

Even in the best appointed kitchen the problem will often arise, how to obtain on the instant a small quantity of fresh boiling water. Many inventions have been devised to meet this constantly recurring want, such as quick-boiling kettles with ingeniously constructed bottoms, and powerful gas burners arranged to concentrate a large amount of flame upon the ingenious kettle-bottoms. But usually it is found in practice, that, no matter with what waste of gas, it is several minutes before even so small a quantity of water as is needed to make a cup of tea can be raised from cold to boiling. Hence it happens that tea and other things are frequently spoiled from being made either with water which has not boiled at all, or with water which boiled long before it was wanted. Many will therefore be glad to hear of a little instrument sold by Ewart and Son, of Euston Road, which they call the “Kitchen Geyser.” The water does not remain in the geyser, but merely flows through it and is boiled as it flows. At first lighting, a few seconds are lost in warming the copper of which the geyser is made. And so a single minute (not longer) has to be allowed before the stream of water actually reaches boiling point. It then flows at the rate of a pint per minute, so that it takes in all just two minutes to produce the first pint of boiling water. After this, however, the metal is kept hot by the minute flame which is left burning when the water is stopped. A second pint of boiling water can thus be had in a single minute whenever afterwards required, until the gas is finally turned off. The saving of time, fuel, and temper effected by this little instrument will be found to make it quite indispensable where it has once been tried.

226. Sugg’s “Westminster” Gas Kitchener.

Sugg’s “Westminster” gas kitcheners (Fig. 226) possess the following advantages:—(1) Thoroughly ventilated cooking chamber, lined with enamelled iron, suitable for roasting joints and poultry, and baking bread and light pastry. (2) The luminous flames used in this chamber give off no offensive odour. The products of combustion are as harmless as those from an ordinary gas burner. (3) The flavour of meat, game, &c., is preserved, as they are roasted by radiant heat in a well-ventilated chamber as perfectly as they would be before a good bright fire. (4) The juices of the meat are retained in the joint, making it more nourishing than when roasted in any other way. (5) The waste of meat by cooking is much less than that incurred by roasting in coal kitcheners and imperfectly ventilated ovens. The saving in weight of meat thus secured will more than pay for the gas. (6) For baking bread and pastry it is unrivalled. Many persons are unable to eat bread and pastry baked in coal and other imperfectly ventilated ovens because it is indigestible. The bread baked in this kitchener is equal to the best Parisian bread, light and easily digestible, and can be eaten on the same day as baked without danger of indigestion. Pastry, when properly made, and baked in this kitchener, is wholesome and very digestible. (7) The hot plate is fitted with three burners—one of which is both a grilling and boiling burner. Toast, chops, steaks, or any kind of grilled food can be prepared in a very perfect manner by this grilling burner. (8) Properly made toast and grilled meat is so important to invalids and persons of delicate appetite, and even for more robust constitutions, that the advantages of a kitchener on which can be prepared successfully such kinds of food, cannot be over-estimated. (9) The “Westminster” kitchener is simple and easy to use. It is substantially made and durable. Every part being marked, it can be taken to pieces and put together easily. Any part being broken can be replaced with greatest facility. The outside of the oven under the boiling burners is now also enamelled, greatly adding to its durability, appearance, and cleanliness.

The “Eagle range” (Eagle Range and Foundry Co., 176, Regent Street, London), Fig. 70, is made in all sizes from 2 ft. to 10 ft., either portable or for fixing (to meet all requirements), with 1 to 4 ovens, with or without hot closets (for keeping joints, &c., hot for serving or cutting), or with grill attached for business houses. This range has the following advantages, viz. an adjustable bottom grating to the fire-box, by means of which the fire can be brought up close to the hot plate for oven work, &c., or the bottom grating can be lowered to give a large surface for roasting in front; a convertible closed or open fire (the conversion needing 2 movements only); a reversing damper fitted to one (or both) of the ovens, by means of which the flame can be directed to give an excess heat at the bottom or at the top of the oven as desired; iron flues, requiring no brick setting, automatic cinder sifter, &c.

These and all ranges that have iron coving plates at sides and back above the hot plate, can be covered with glazed tiles (either plain white or pattern), which is of great convenience in dark kitchens, and to be recommended for cleanliness and good appearance. It will be well understood that any of the ranges mentioned can be fitted with any description of boiler required, but the power of the boilers differs considerably in the different makes. The above-mentioned firm make a speciality of hot water supply.

The Kitchen: Pots and Pans. Continued from p. [240].

Stanley’s Heat Conductors.—Flesh is known to be a very bad conductor of heat; therefore the perfect cooking of the inside of joints by the ordinary culinary methods involves the excessive cooking of the outside, with corresponding loss of the nutritious juices of the meat.

The object of this invention is to provide means by which the interior parts may be cooking simultaneously with the outer parts. This is effected by plated conductors which conduct the exterior surrounding heat to the interior parts. The advantage in this cannot be over-estimated, as the quicker the heat can be conveyed to the middle of the joint, so much more can its gravy and nutriment be preserved, thereby rendering the food much more palatable and wholesome, besides saving time, fuel, and food to a great extent.

The scientific principle of these conductors depends upon the fact that a piece of metal, such as copper, which is a good conductor of heat, will conduct heat nearly equally throughout its mass, whatever part is heated. Thus, if a properly constructed conductor so exposed to a source of heat, as that of an open fire, or in an oven, or in boiling water, the other part which is placed within the joint of meat to be cooked, will become heated nearly equally to the exposed part, so that, in cooking, these conductors, when placed in a joint of meat, cook the interior as quickly as the exterior parts. The only other important scientific condition observed is that the exposed part or collector of the conductor has to be a dark colour, so as to absorb and not reflect the surrounding heat. In all cases the copper is thickly plated to render it quite unobjectionable when in contact with the flesh.

228. Heat-Conducting Cake or Bread Tin. 229. Heat Conductors for Joints.
Stanley’s Heat Conductors.

Fig. 229 represents the simple forms of conductors. The form A is for roasting or baking, for which purpose one or two, or even three or more if the joint is very large, are inserted into the thickest parts of any joint, the heads standing out an inch or so.

For roasting before a brisk fire, or baking in an oven, thick joints of over 6 lb., 10 minutes per lb. is amply sufficient time, instead of the usual time (15 minutes per lb.) The meat will be thoroughly cooked in this time, and the gravy and nourishment maintained. The joint will weigh, after cooking, 10 per cent. more than it would if cooked in the ordinary manner without conductors. This fact has been proved by the highest authorities.

Fig. 228 shows a heat-conducting cake or bread baking tin. They can be had of H. T. Tallack, 28, Hatton Garden, E.C.

The Sickroom: Accessories. Continued from p. [765].

W. H. Harling’s (47, Finsbury Pavement, London, E.C.) Portable Electric Combination Bell is a unique invention combining a table call bell, invalids’ bell set, burglar alarm and fire alarm, and for usefulness, compactness, and finish, far surpasses anything of the sort hitherto introduced. The distinct advantage of the portable combination bell will at once be seen when it is stated that the whole apparatus, including battery, and all other parts complete, occupies no greater space than 3½ in., and as the battery contains no fluid, the bell can be safely packed in portmanteau or travelling bag. It is both useful and ornamental, and will be found a great convenience on any dining table. For use in hotels and restaurants it may combine a bell with menu and wine list holder. As an invalids’ bell set, the bell may be placed outside the room, so as not to annoy the patient, and the contact press remaining inside, the attendant may be summoned by slightly pressing it with the fingers. As a burglar alarm and thief detector, on fixing the contact press to door or window, box or portmanteau lids, drawers, cabinets, &c., these on being opened will immediately start the alarm, which will continue to ring until the press is re-set. This feature of the bell is invaluable to tourists and travellers, and affords ample protection against surprise or robbery. As a fire alarm it can be adjusted to ring at any degree above the normal temperature, and will at once give the alarm should a fire break out in any room in which it is placed. The price complete is 21s.

Harling’s Patent Double Contact Press, for attachment to Electric Bell Fittings, can be fixed in a few seconds to any ordinary push, and be used as an Invalid’s Press enabling the patient to call attention without rising from bed or chair; or be applied to door, window, box-lid, cabinet, &c., for the detection of Thieves and Burglars. Its price, with 15 ft. double silk cord, is 3s. 9d.

The Sickroom: Common Complaints. Continued from p. [809].

Defective Sight.—The human eye is generally compared physically with a photographic camera, in which a convex lens throws the image of objects in front of it upon a screen at the position at which the photograph is taken. The front of the eye possesses a lens of similar qualities, and the back of the eye forms a screen upon which a fine net-work of nerves (retina) is spread out, which conveys by its sensitiveness to light, shade, and colour, the image of objects to the brain. Defective sight in most instances is caused by the imperfect form of the lens of the eye, or the want of its perfect adjustment to distance from the retina, thus failing to throw a distinct image upon it.

The most common defects of the eye are termed Myopia or near-sightedness, in which the image of objects is thrown in front of the retina, and Presbyopia, literally old-sightedness or far-sightedness, in which the image is thrown behind the retina. The former is a structural defect of the eye, the latter more generally proceeds from want of elasticity in the lens, making it incapable of giving adjustment to the eye for near objects. Another very common defect of the eye is want of roundness of the front of the eye, or Astigmatism, in which the images are distorted in various ways. This defect is generally easily discovered by vertical objects appearing to be curved or leaning one way or the other. Very commonly sight is defective from difference of structure in the two eyes. These defects are very common to children, and interfere seriously with their learning, and often produce squint, as an effort of nature to avoid the painful confusion of images that are produced. When discovered it is well to consult a skilled optician as early as possible, who will, if necessary, recommend an oculist if the case requires one. All the defects mentioned above are remediable by use of spectacles if the constitution of the individual is healthy.

Spectacles.—To preserve the sight where it is found to be defective, it is not only necessary that the lenses should be exactly adapted to the defects of each eye taken separately, but that the distance of the centres of spectacle eyes should be exactly the same as that of the wearer’s eyes, and that they should be held at the right height to centre the eyes. Further, that they should fit the nose and face so as to keep them in a level position. Of course for this result the spectacles must be made to measurement by the skilled optician to fit the face. The optical defects are discovered for perfect correction for myopia and presbyopia by means of an instrument termed an optometer, which every professional optician possesses. There can scarcely be a greater mistake than picking up a pair of spectacles of a friend, or of an ordinary shopkeeper, who has no skill or appliances to properly test the sight. This is very often done, and spectacles are taken in use which appear to improve the sight slightly, but which ultimately increase optical defects.

Folding Glasses are often used in place of spectacles for elegance of appearance. No oculist recommends them, as from their weak structure it is impossible for them to be kept to correct form in wear. Mr. Stanley, whose advertisement appears in these pages, has invented a form of hand-glass, which is quite as light and elegant as the folding glass, which has the merit of keeping in a rigid form as certainly as ordinary spectacles. These for the best results have to be made to measure with all the care of a good pair of spectacles.

Protectors.—These protect weak eyes from excess of light, which is often very irritating, and from dust, which is injurious where there is any soreness. There are a great number of forms. Blue or smoky-grey is generally found to be most pleasant. In all cases these protectors should be well ventilated by wire gauze round the glass. They take many forms, to the fancy of the wearer. Their use should never be neglected by persons with weak eyes in sunny or dusty weather. The cheapest form have rubber bands attached to them so as to go round the head; these cannot be recommended, the rubber becomes permanently soft from the heat of the head. Steel frames are recommended.

Domestic Motors. Continued from p. [954].

Rider’s Household Pumping Engine.—Since our last edition was published a great improvement in these engines has been introduced by the makers. It consists in forming the furnace or fire-box in two parts, in such a manner that it can be swung apart, as shown in Fig. 218. The fire-pot or heater, which, being exposed to the fire, is naturally the most vulnerable part, can be replaced in a couple of hours, and the whole closed up ready for use as in Fig. 217. This improvement is the subject of a patent by J. C. R. Okes, 39, Queen Victoria Street.

The “Rider” Hot Air Engine has been before the public for many years, and is a thoroughly reliable machine, increasing in favour. It has been adopted by the Government for barrack water supply; by the Sultan of Turkey for his palaces, and is largely used in Australia, India, and other countries, besides in our own, where hundreds are in constant use.

The Bathroom. Continued from p. [847].

A well-made geyser is a great comfort. In that named the “Lightning” Geyser, made by Messrs. Ewart and Son, of Euston Road, London, not only is hot water obtained instantly at any time, but by reducing the quantity the temperature can be raised to boiling in a single minute. The taps are so arranged that whenever the flow of water ceases from any cause, the gas is instantly reduced, so that the geyser cannot be burnt, and the gas cannot be wasted. The advantages over the circulating system are that the installation is less costly, that a fire in the kitchen is not needed in order to have a hot bath, that boiling water for hot drinks can be had in a single minute, and hot water for bathing instantly at any hour of the night as well as during the day.

Messrs. Reid’s (69, St. Mary Axe, London) combined baths and fittings deserve special mention. By recent improvements these baths are practically self fixing; there is no cutting away of woodwork, the bath having only to be placed in position and the supply and waste pipes connected to the unions sent with same. These baths can be supplied for fixing with the usual casing, or decorated in any style to stand entirely without enclosure of any kind. Particulars of some of the above firm’s manufactures may be found on p. [989].

Now that the Great Eastern Railway Co. are delivering Lowestoft Sea Water in kegs at any address in London at the rate of 6d. per 3 gal. it becomes possible to have a genuine salt water bath at a reasonable cost. Even greater facilities than these will be obtained should the proposed aqueduct from Brighton ever become an accomplished fact. Sugg’s “Sabrina” Bath has been designed to enable the salt water to be heated to any temperature. The bottom of the bath consists of circulating tubes sufficiently large to be cleaned out from time to time by means of a wire brush, and thus prevent them from becoming choked by a deposit of salt. The bath should be connected to a flue or a ventilating tube carried through to the outside of bath-room. A burner consisting of a number of luminous flames fixed on a swivel joint swings into its place under the bath. When the salt water has been poured into the bath, the burner is lighted, and the water in the tubes becoming hot rises to the top and is continually displaced by the colder water in the tubes. The circulation thus set up continues freely until the water is heated to the required temperature. Before getting into the bath, care should be taken to see that the temperature of the water is suitable, and the burners turned out. Salt water treated in this way may be used several times.

230. Boiling Stream Therma.

The “Boiling Stream Therma” is an improvement on the Therma patented by Vernon Harcourt in 1882; and by its means a constant supply of water, heated by gas to any degree up to boiling point, may be obtained economically and in the shortest possible time. It can be fixed in a bath-room, kitchen, housemaid’s closet, or any part of a house where hot water may be required at any moment of the day or night. It entirely supersedes the expensive and troublesome hot-water apparatus usually laid on through pipes from the kitchen boiler; and also obviates the necessity of lighting the kitchen fire expressly to prepare hot water. It will furnish 30 gals. of hot water at 105° F. in 15 minutes. It is made by Sugg, Charing Cross.

Sugg’s “Sultan” is a modification of one of Ellis’s bath chambers, fitted with luminous gas flames, governed by a proper regulator, so that no excessive consumption beyond what is required can be produced by any sudden increase of pressure during the time a bath is being taken. The regulating tap enables the bather to reduce the temperature to any degree; the governor maintains the consumption, and consequently the temperature, at the point fixed upon, and ensures that no greater temperature than 200° F. can be produced, even though the regulating tap is turned full on. The foot-warmer is arranged to be heated by gas instead of being filled with hot water, so that a bath can be taken in the early morning, when there is generally no hot water ready. By placing a small vessel of water over the burner, a sufficient quantity of steam can be produced to make a very effective Russian vapour bath. No disagreeable odour comes from this bath, and there are no hurtful products other than carbonic acid in too small a quantity to be injurious. It can, therefore, be used in any bath-room or even in a bedroom without the slightest interference with comfort or health.

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INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT.

Acme Heating, [996]
—— ventilating, [991]
Baking Bread, [1003]
Baths, [1008]
Boiling stream therma, [1009]
Bradford’s churns, [1002]
Bread baking, [1003]
Burns, [1002]
Cadogan Gas Fires, [995]
Churns, [1002]
Dairy, [1002]
Deards’s coils, [995]
Eagle Range, [993]
Electric lighting, [1001]
Ewart’s geyser, [1004], [1008]
Fires, [1002]
Gas Fires, [994]
—— governors, [998]
—— maker, [1000]
Geyser, [1004]
Harling’s Sickroom Bell, [1006]
Kitchen Ranges, [1004]
Lightning Geyser, [1008]
Motors, [1003]
Pantry, [1003]
Parson’s grate, [993]
Reflectors, [1000]
Reid’s baths, [1008]
—— water closets, [991]
Rider’s pumping engine, [1008]
Roasting, [1005]
Shaw’s Governors, [998]
—— reflectors, [1000]
Sickroom bell, [1006]
Sight, defective, [1007]
Spectacles, [1007]
Stanley’s heat conductors, [1005]
Strode’s gas fires, [995]
Sugg’s gas fires, [994]
—— specialities, [1001]
—— ventilators, [992]
Sultan Bath, [1009]
Ventilation, [991]
Water Closets, [991]
Westminster kitchener, [1004]

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