Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and HappinessBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Receipes for Economical and Healthful Cooking; also, Many Directions for Securing Health and Happiness
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Cooking; Home economics
_Wooden Ware._—A nest of tubs; a set of pails and bowls; a large
and small sieve; a beetle for mashing potatoes; a spade or stick
for stirring butter and sugar; a bread-board, for molding bread and
making pie-crust; a coffee-stick; a clothes-stick; a mush-stick; a
meat-beetle, to pound tough meat; an egg-beater; a ladle, for working
butter; a bread-trough, (for a large family;) flour-buckets, with lids,
to hold sifted flour and Indian meal; salt-boxes; sugar-boxes; starch
and indigo boxes; spice-boxes; a bosom-board; a skirt-board; a large
ironing-board; two or three clothes-frames; and six dozen clothes-pins.
_Basket Ware._—Baskets of all sizes, for eggs, fruit, marketing,
clothes, etc.; also chip-baskets. When often used, they should be
washed in hot suds.
_Other Articles._—Every kitchen needs a box containing balls of brown
thread and twine, a large and small darning-needle, rolls of waste
paper and old linen and cotton, and a supply of common holders. There
should also be another box, containing a hammer, carpet-tacks, and
nails of all sizes, a carpet-claw, screws and a screw-driver, pincers,
gimlets of several sizes, a bed-screw, a small saw, two chisels, (one
to use for button-holes in broadcloth,) two awls, and two files.
In a drawer or cupboard should be placed cotton table-cloths for
kitchen use; nice crash towels for tumblers, marked T T; coarser
towels for dishes marked T; six large roller-towels; a dozen
hand-towels, marked H T; and a dozen hemmed dish-cloths with loops.
Also two thick linen pudding or dumpling cloths, a jelly-bag made
of white flannel, to strain jelly, a starch-strainer, and a bag for
boiling clothes.
In a closet should be kept, arranged in order, the following articles:
the dust-pan, dust-brush, and dusting-cloths, old flannel and cotton
for scouring and rubbing, large sponges for washing windows and
looking-glasses, a long brush for cobwebs, and another for washing the
outside of windows, whisk-brooms, common brooms, a coat-broom or brush,
a whitewash-brush, a stove-brush, shoe-brushes and blacking, articles
for cleaning tin and silver, leather for cleaning metals, bottles
containing stain-mixtures and other articles used in cleansing.
CARE OF THE CELLAR.
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