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
Take the fat off a pound of loin of mutton, and put the lean into a
quart of water. Skim it well as it boils, and put in a piece of the
upper crust of bread, with a large blade of mace. Having covered it
up close, let it boil closely for half an hour, and then pour the
broth clear off, without stirring. Season it with a little salt.
Turnips should not be boiled with the meat.
MEDICINAL TEA.
This country affords herbs much more wholesome than either tea or
coffee, and if they were all imported from a distant region, and sold
at a high price, they would, no doubt, be held in great estimation.
The following composition is very superior to tea or coffee, inasmuch
as the infusion is very agreeable, will strengthen the stomach, and
invigorate, instead of debilitate, the nervous system.
Take of rosemary leaves, dried, 2 oz.
sage do. do. 4 oz.
rose do. do. 4 oz.
peach do. do. 3 oz.
hyssop do. do. 4 oz.
balm do. do. 5 oz.
male speedwell, (veronica) 4 oz.
A wine-glassful of these mixed herbs is sufficient to make 3 pints
of infusion, which is made in the same manner as tea, sugar and milk
being added. In London, where herbs are sold at a dearer rate than in
the country, it may be obtained at the rate of 2s. per pound.—Either
of the above ingredients may be diminished or augmented at pleasure.
If too bitter, lessen the quantity of hyssop, and add dried mint
leaves.
ISINGLASS JELLY, &c.
Put an ounce of isinglass, and a few cloves, into a quart of water.
Boil it down to a pint, strain it upon a pound of loaf sugar, and
when cold, add a little wine, when it will be fit for use.—A very
nourishing beverage may be made by merely boiling the isinglass with
milk, and sweetening with lump sugar.
SALOP.
Put a dessert spoonful of the powder of salop, into a pint of boiling
water. Keep stirring it till it becomes of the consistence of jelly,
and then add white wine and sugar, according to taste.
SUBSTITUTE FOR ASSES MILK.
Put an ounce of hartshorn shavings into a quart of boiling
barley-water; boil down to a pint, add two ounces of candid eringo
root, and a pint of new milk; boil for a quarter of an hour, when
strain for use.
BROWN CAUDLE.
Boil four spoonsful of oatmeal, a blade or two of mace, and a piece
of lemon peel, in two quarts of water, for about a quarter of an
hour; taking care that it does not boil over. Then strain, and add a
quart of good ale that is not bitter. Sweeten it to the palate, and
add half a pint of white wine. When no white wine is used the caudle
should consist of one half of ale.
WHITE CAUDLE.
Make the gruel as above, and strain through a sieve, but put no ale
to it. When to be used, sweeten according to taste, grate in some
nutmeg, and add a little white wine. Juice of lemon is sometimes
added.
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