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
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
The foul linen is given out to her on Monday morning, and returned
clean, on Friday night or Saturday morning.—Wages from 8l. to 15l. a
year.
Two ounces of pearl-ash, to a pound and a half of soap, will make a
considerable saving. Soda, by softening the water, saves a great deal
of soap. It should be dissolved in a large jug of water, some of which
should be poured into the tubs and boiler, and when the lather becomes
weak, add more.
The use of soft soap, saves nearly half in washing.
Good new hard soap contains full half of oil, one-third water, and the
rest soda.
TO MAKE TOWN-WASHED LINEN WHITE.
In large towns, where linen cannot be exposed to the air and sun upon
the grass, let it be steeped, for some time before it is washed, in a
solution of oxymuriate of lime. Let it then be boiled in an alkaline
ley. Linen or cotton thus treated will not become yellow by age.
TO TAKE OUT IRON MOULDS FROM LINEN.
Hold the iron mould on the cover of a tankard of boiling water, and
rub on the spot a little juice of sorrel and salt, and when the cloth
has thoroughly imbibed the juice, wash it in ley.
TO SCOUR THICK COTTON COUNTERPANES.
Cut a pound of mottled soap into thin slices; and put it into a
pan with a quarter of an ounce of pot-ash. Pour a pail of boiling
water on it, and let it stand till dissolved. Then pour hot and
cold water into a scouring tub, with a bowl of the solution. Put
in the counterpane, beat it well, turn it often, give it a second
liquor as before, and then rinse it in cold water. Then put three
tea-spoonsful of liquid blue into a thin liquor; stir it, and put in
the counterpane: beat it about five minutes, and dry it in the air.
TO SCOUR FLANNELS OR WOOLLENS.
Cut ½ a pound of the best yellow soap into thin slices, and pour
such a quantity of boiling river water on it as will dissolve the
soap, and make it of the consistence of oil. Cover the articles about
two inches with water, such as the hand can bear, and add a lump of
American pearl-ash, and about a third of the soap solution. Beat
them till no head or lather rises on the water; throw away the dirty
water, and proceed as before with hotter water without pearl-ash.
TO TAKE MILDEW OUT OF LINEN.
Rub it well with soap: then scrape some fine chalk, and rub that also
in the linen; lay it on the grass; as it dries, wet it a little, and
it will come out after twice doing.
TO TAKE OUT SPOTS OF INK.
As soon as the accident happens, wet the place with juice of sorrel
or lemon, or with vinegar, and the best hard white soap.
THE DAIRY MAID
Manages the dairy, milks the cows, makes the butter, cheese, wheys,
syllabubs, &c. attends the poultry, picks and prepares them for
trussing, makes bread and fresh butter for the parlour every morning,
and bakes all the bread of the family.
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