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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant

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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables

Name: The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Author: Adams, Samuel, servant

Adams, Samuel, servant

Home economics; Household employees

Take two pecks of fresh, dry damask rose-leaves; strip them from
  their leaves and stalks; have ready 16 pounds of fine hair-powder.
  Strew a layer of rose-leaves, on sheets of paper, at the bottom
  of a box, cover them over with a layer of hair-powder; then strew
  alternately a layer of roses and powder, until the whole of each has
  been used.

  When they have lain 24 hours, sift the powder out, and expose it to
  the air 24 hours more. Stir it often. Add fresh rose-leaves, twice,
  as before, and proceed in the same way; after this dry the powder
  well by a gentle heat, and pass it through a fine sieve. Lastly,
  pour ten drops of oil of rhodium, or three drops of otto of roses,
  on loaf-sugar, which triturate in a glass mortar, and stir well into
  the powder, which put into a box, or glass, for use. This hair-powder
  perfume will be excellent, and will keep well.


  316. BERGAMOT PERFUME.

  Take sixteen pounds of hair powder, and forty drops of Roman oil of
  bergamot, and proceed in all respects as before, but do not leave
  the compound exposed to the air; for in this case the bergamot is so
  volatile that it will quickly fly off.


  317. AMBERGRIS HAIR-POWDER.

  Take twelve pounds of fine starch-powder, add three pounds of the
  ambergris perfume: mix them well together, and run it twice through a
  fine hair sieve. Put it into a well closed box, or glass, for use.

  This is the first and best sort of ambergris powder: but for a
  second, or inferior sort, put only a pound and a half of the perfume,
  to the above quantity of starch-powder.


  318. MUSK AND CIVET HAIR-POWDER.

  Mix twelve pounds of starch-powder, and three pounds of musk perfume,
  as before. A second sort of this hair-powder may be made by using
  half the quantity of perfume.


  319. VIOLET HAIR-POWDER.

  Mix twelve pounds of hair-powder with three pounds of the violet
  perfume, and lay it by for use.


  320. ROSE HAIR-POWDER.

  Mix well twelve pounds of starch powder, with three pounds of the
  rose perfume. Sift; put it up in a cedar box, or glass bottle.


  321. _Another._

  A second sort of this powder may be made by using half the quantity
  of the perfume, to twelve pounds of powder, and adding two drops of
  otto of roses, previously dropped on sugar, and well triturated in a
  glass mortar.


  322. TO DESTROY SUPERFLUOUS HAIR.

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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables

Adams, Samuel, servant

Home economics; Household employees

Take two pecks of fresh, dry damask rose-leaves; strip them from
  their leaves and stalks; have ready 16 pounds of fine hair-powder.
  Strew a layer of rose-leaves, on sheets of paper, at the bottom
  of a box, cover them over with a layer of hair-powder; then strew
  alternately a layer of roses and powder, until the whole of each has
  been used.

  When they have lain 24 hours, sift the powder out, and expose it to
  the air 24 hours more. Stir it often. Add fresh rose-leaves, twice,
  as before, and proceed in the same way; after this dry the powder
  well by a gentle heat, and pass it through a fine sieve. Lastly,
  pour ten drops of oil of rhodium, or three drops of otto of roses,
  on loaf-sugar, which triturate in a glass mortar, and stir well into
  the powder, which put into a box, or glass, for use. This hair-powder
  perfume will be excellent, and will keep well.


  316. BERGAMOT PERFUME.

  Take sixteen pounds of hair powder, and forty drops of Roman oil of
  bergamot, and proceed in all respects as before, but do not leave
  the compound exposed to the air; for in this case the bergamot is so
  volatile that it will quickly fly off.


  317. AMBERGRIS HAIR-POWDER.

  Take twelve pounds of fine starch-powder, add three pounds of the
  ambergris perfume: mix them well together, and run it twice through a
  fine hair sieve. Put it into a well closed box, or glass, for use.

  This is the first and best sort of ambergris powder: but for a
  second, or inferior sort, put only a pound and a half of the perfume,
  to the above quantity of starch-powder.


  318. MUSK AND CIVET HAIR-POWDER.

  Mix twelve pounds of starch-powder, and three pounds of musk perfume,
  as before. A second sort of this hair-powder may be made by using
  half the quantity of perfume.


  319. VIOLET HAIR-POWDER.

  Mix twelve pounds of hair-powder with three pounds of the violet
  perfume, and lay it by for use.


  320. ROSE HAIR-POWDER.

  Mix well twelve pounds of starch powder, with three pounds of the
  rose perfume. Sift; put it up in a cedar box, or glass bottle.


  321. _Another._

  A second sort of this powder may be made by using half the quantity
  of the perfume, to twelve pounds of powder, and adding two drops of
  otto of roses, previously dropped on sugar, and well triturated in a
  glass mortar.


  322. TO DESTROY SUPERFLUOUS HAIR.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables

The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables

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