A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons: Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic EconomyAccum, Friedrich Christian
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A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons: Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy
Accum, Friedrich Christian
Food adulteration and inspection
ADULTERATION OF BEER 113
_List of Druggists and Grocers, prosecuted and convicted for
supplying illegal Ingredients to Brewers for Adulterating Beer_ 119
_Porter_ 121
_Strength and Specific Differences of different kinds of Porter_ 125
_List of Publicans prosecuted and convicted for adulterating Beer
with illegal Ingredients, and for mixing Table Beer with their
Strong Beer_ 129
_Illegal Substances used for adulterating Beer_ 131
_Ingredients seized at various Breweries and Brewers' Druggists,
for adulterating Beer_ 136
_List of Brewers prosecuted and convicted for adulterating Strong
Beer with Table Beer_ 143
_Old, or Entire Beer; and New or Mild Beer_ 144
_List of Brewers prosecuted and convicted for receiving and using
illegal Ingredients in their Brewings_ 151
_Method of detecting the Adulteration of Beer_ 158
_Method of ascertaining the Quantity of Spirit contained in Porter,
Ale, &c._ 160
_Per Centage of Alcohol contained in Porter, and other kinds of
Malt Liquors_ 162
COUNTERFEIT TEA-LEAVES 163
_Methods of detecting the Adulterations of Tea-Leaves_ 171
COUNTERFEIT COFFEE 176
ADULTERATION OF BRANDY, RUM, AND GIN 187
_Method of detecting the Adulterations of Brandy, Rum, and Malt
Spirit_ 195
_Method of detecting the Presence of Lead in Spiritous Liquors_ 202
_Method of ascertaining the Quantity of Alcohol contained in
different kinds of Spiritous Liquors_ 203
_Table exhibiting the Per Centage of Alcohol contained in various
kinds of Spiritous Liquors_ 205
POISONOUS CHEESE, _and method of detecting it_ 206
COUNTERFEIT PEPPER, _and Method of detecting it_ 211
_White Pepper, and method of manufacturing it_ 213
POISONOUS CAYENNE PEPPER, _and method of detecting it_ 215
POISONOUS PICKLES, _and method of detecting them_ 217
ADULTERATION OF VINEGAR, _and method of detecting it_ 220
_Distilled Vinegar_ 221
ADULTERATION OF CREAM, _and method of detecting it_ 222
POISONOUS CONFECTIONERY, _and method of detecting it_ 224
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