CONTENTS

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A Plea for Housewifery[1]
Butter and Cream[9]
Cheese[16]
Pickling Meat[23]
Fish[31]
Eggs[32]
Pickling Vegetables[33]
Condiments and Sauces[40]
Preserves[48]
The Storing of Fruit and Herbs[57]
The Bottling of Fruit and Vegetables[63]
The Drying of Fruit and Vegetables[67]
Home-brewed Beer[71]
Cider[77]
Wine-making[80]
The Distilling of Waters and Cordials[92]
Some other Cordials and Bitters[112]
Drinks—Old and New[117]
Hints for Refreshments at a Garden-party or Picnic[128]
Ice Creams[137]
Food for Invalids[139]
Perfumes[145]
Some Miscellaneous Recipes[149]
Index[153]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Cornish Stiller of Herbs[Frontispiece]
Symbols of DistillationPage[3]
Alchemist in his Laboratory "[5]
Alchemist performing Mystic Rites "[7]
Diaphragm Churn "[10]
Melotte Cream SeparatorTo facepage[10]
A Small Butter-workerPage[11]
Milk-Strainer for use with Muslin "[13]
Double Pan for Devonshire Cream-raising "[13]
A Self-skimming Porcelain Milk-pan "[14]
Butter-scoop "[14]
Old Distilling Furnaces and Stills "[35]
Distilling Oyle out of Seedes "[43]
A Fruit-room "[59]
Orr’s Fruit-storing TraysTo facepage[60]
Lee’s Steam Fruit Preserving Apparatus””[62]
Ryland’s Fruit BottlesPage[64]
Lee’s Fruit Bottles and BoilerTo facepage[64]
Barnett and Foster’s Spile-drawerPage[74]
A Group of Drinking-glasses "[82]
A Group of Ancient Bottles "[83]
A Simple Fruit-mill "[84]
Cork-driver "[84]
A Group of Modern Bottles "[86]
A Wine Filter-bag "[88]
Balneum Mariæ "[93]
Distilling by Heat of SteamPage[93]
Some old Distilling Vessels "[95]
Distilling by Heat of Fermenting Manure "[97]
Alchemist with his Servant "[97]
A 16th-century Still, with Condenser Jacket to Helm of Still "[99]
“The Instrument named the Pellicane” ”[99]
Stills at the Works of the London Essence Co.To facepage[100]
Balneum MariæPage[101]
Furnace with Stills "[101]
Still-room of the London Essence Co.To facepage[102]
Furnace with StillsPage[103]
Persian Rose-water Sprinkler "[104]
A Perforated Water-bath "[105]
A Portable Copper Still "[105]
Old Apparatus used for condensing the Distillate "[107]
“Beholde here a Manner or Fashion of Balneo Mariæ” ”[109]
Old Vessels used in Distilling "[110]
Tending the Furnace "[110]
Balneum Mariæ "[110]
Copper Spirit-measure "[115]
Copper Funnel "[115]
Coffee RoasterTo facepage[120]
Beer Warmer or MullerPage[122]
Some Old Mortars "[131]
Persian Incense Burner "[147]