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
Is entirely under the controul and direction of the Butler. He cleans
all the plate—the parlour knives and forks—lays the cloths—sets out
the side-board, and assists to wait at table. As he is supposed to be
busily employed, after dinner, in the Butler’s pantry, cleaning the
plate, he is not usually expected to answer the bells at that period.
He trims the lamps belonging to the dining and drawing-rooms, and
is frequently required to assist the Butler in cleaning his master’s
clothes and shoes. The Under Butler, generally looking to the situation
of Butler, and as even in his present station he will have occasion for
more particular directions, he will do well frequently to refer to the
hints to the Butler, where he will find the immediate duties of the
Butler and _himself_ more particularly given.
A chief part of his duty consists in assisting in the rough work of the
butler, such as brewing, bottling, and cellar business in general, in
all which he should be as expert as the butler himself.
Wages 16 to 25 guineas.
TO CLEAN CHINA AND GLASS.
The best material for cleaning either porcelain or glass-ware is
fullers’ earth, but it must be beaten into a fine powder, and
carefully cleared from all rough or hard particles, which might
endanger the polish of the brilliant surface.
TO CLEAN PLATE.
Wash the plate in boiling water to free it from grease, and if it
has wrought edges, brush it well before you begin to clean it. The
leathers ought to be soft and very thick, and the sponges well soaked
in water.
_Another Way._
Boil an ounce of prepared hartshorn-powder in a quart of water. While
on the fire, put as much plate into it as the vessel will hold; let
it boil a little time, then take it out, drain it over the saucepan,
dry it before the fire, and rub it bright with leather. Then put more
into the pan in the same manner until it is all boiled. Put clean
linen rags into the pan to soak up the remainder, and when dry, they
will give a beautiful polish to the plate merely by rubbing it with
them. They are likewise admirable for cleaning brass locks, and the
finger-plates of doors.—This method will only suit small articles of
plate.
TO CLEAN PLATED ARTICLES.
Take an ounce of killed quicksilver, which you may buy at the
chemist’s, and half a pound of the best whiting sifted; mix them with
spirits of wine when used. Hartshorn-powder may be used instead of
whiting; but whiting is quite as good, when dried and pounded.
TO GIVE SILVER PLATE A LUSTRE.
Dissolve alum in strong ley, skim it carefully, mix it with soap and
wash your silver utensils with it, using a linen rag.
TO TAKE STAINS OUT OF SILVER PLATE.
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