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
KITCHEN GARDEN. Here a little attention will be requisite every month in
the year, as no garden can be long neglected, without producing weeds
which exhaust the soil, as well as give a very slovenly
appearance.--JANUARY. Throw up a heap of new dung to heat, that it may
be ready to make hotbeds for early cucumbers, and raising of annuals for
the flower garden. Dig up the ground that is to be sown with the spring
crops, that it may lie and mellow. Nurse the cauliflower plants kept
under glasses, carefully shut out the frost, but in the middle of milder
days let in a little air. Pick up the dead leaves, and gather up the
mould about the stalks. Make a slight hotbed in the open ground for
young sallads, and place hoops over it, that it may be covered in very
cold weather. Sow a few beans and peas, and seek and destroy snails and
other vermin.--FEBRUARY. Dig and level beds for sowing radishes, onions,
carrots, parsnips, and Dutch lettuce. Leeks and spinage should also be
sown in this month, likewise beets, celery, sorrel, and marigolds, with
any other of the hardy kinds. The best way with beans and peas, is to
sow a new crop every fortnight, that if one succeeds and another fails,
as will often be the case, there still may be a constant supply of these
useful articles for the table. Plant kidney beans upon a hotbed for an
early crop; the dwarf, the white and Battersea beans, are the best
sorts. They must have air in the middle of mild days when they are up,
and once in two days they should be gently watered. Transplant cabbages,
plant out Silesia and Cos lettuce from the beds where they grew in
winter, and plant potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes.--MARCH. Sow more
carrots, and also some large peas, rouncevals and gray. In better ground
sow cabbages, savoys, and parsnips for a second crop; and towards the
end of the month, put in a larger quantity of peas and beans. Sow
parsley, and plant mint. Sow Cos and imperial lettuce, and transplant
the finer kinds. In the beginning of the month, sow Dutch parsley for
the roots. The last week take advantage of the time, or the dry days, to
make beds for asparagus. Clear up the artichoke roots, slip off the
weakest, and plant them out for a new crop, leaving four on each good
root to bear, and on such as are weaker two. Dig up a warm border, and
sow some French beans; let them have a dry soil, and give them no water
till they appear above ground.--APRIL. On a dry warm border, plant a
large crop of French beans. Plant cuttings of sage, and other aromatics.
Sow marrowfat peas, and plant some beans for a late crop. Sow thyme,
sweet marjoram, and savoury. Sow young sallads once in ten days, and
some Cos and Silesia lettuces. The seeds of all kinds being now in the
ground, look to the growing crops, clear away the weeds every where
among them, dig up the earth between the rows of beans, peas, and all
other kinds that are distantly planted. This gives them a strong growth,
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