The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private FamiliesEaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
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The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849
Cooking, English; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics
CLARY WINE. Boil fifteen gallons of water, with forty-five pounds of
sugar, and skim it clean. When cool put a little to a quarter of a pint
of yeast, and so by degrees add a little more. In the course of an hour
put the smaller to the larger quantity, pour the liquor on clary
flowers, picked in the dry: the quantity for the above is twelve quarts.
If there be not a sufficient quantity ready to put in at once, more may
be added by degrees, keeping an account of each quart. When the liquor
ceases to hiss, and the flowers are all in, stop it up for four months.
Rack it off, empty the barrel of the dregs, and add a gallon of the best
brandy. Return the liquor to the cask, close it up for six or eight
weeks, and then bottle it off.
CLEANLINESS. Nothing is more conducive to health than cleanliness, and
the want of it is a fault which admits of no excuse. It is so agreeable
to our nature, that we cannot help approving it in others, even if we do
not practise it ourselves. It is an ornament to the highest as well as
to the lowest station, and cannot be dispensed with in either: it ought
to be cultivated everywhere, especially in populous towns and cities.
Frequent washing not only improves the appearance, but promotes
perspiration, by removing every impediment on the skin, while at the
same time it braces the body, and enlivens the spirits. Washing the feet
and legs in lukewarm water, after being exposed to cold and wet, would
prevent the ill effects which proceed from these causes, and greatly
contribute to health. Diseases of the skin, a very numerous class, are
chiefly owing to the want of cleanliness, as well as the various kinds
of vermin which infest the human body; and all these might be prevented
by a due regard to our own persons. One common cause of putrid and
malignant fevers is the want of cleanliness. They usually begin among
the inhabitants of close and dirty houses, who breathe unwholesome air,
take little exercise, and wear dirty clothes. There the infection is
generally hatched, and spreads its desolation far and wide. If dirty
people cannot be removed as a common nuisance, they ought at least to be
avoided as infectious, and all who regard their own health should keep
at a distance from their habitations. Infectious diseases are often
communicated by tainted air: every thing therefore which gives a noxious
exhalation, or tends to spread infection, should be carefully avoided.
In great towns no filth of any kind should be suffered to remain in the
streets, and great pains should be taken to keep every dwelling clean
both within and without. No dunghills or filth of any kind should be
allowed to remain near them. When an infection breaks out, cleanliness
is the most likely means to prevent its spreading to other places, or
its returning again afterwards. It will lodge a long time in dirty
clothes, and be liable to break out again; and therefore the bedding
and clothing of the sick ought to be carefully washed, and fumigated
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