Lady Bountiful's Legacy to Her Family and Friends: A Book of Practical Instructions & Duties, Counsels & Experiences, Anecdotes, Hints, & Recipes, in Housekeeping & Domestic Management, Calculated to Increase the Comforts of House and HomeJohn Timbs |
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... preserve the complexion ( called the bath of life ) , violet- water , herb - water for weak eyes , and other distillations . Plaisters , ointments , lotions of all kinds , were among her cunning secrets . These occupations serve to show ...
... preserve the complexion ( called the bath of life ) , violet- water , herb - water for weak eyes , and other distillations . Plaisters , ointments , lotions of all kinds , were among her cunning secrets . These occupations serve to show ...
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... preserving of all sorts of wines , conceiled secrets , dis- tillations , perfumes , ordering of wooll , hempe , flax , making cloth , and dyeing ; the knowledge of dayries , office of malt- ing of oates , their excellent service in a ...
... preserving of all sorts of wines , conceiled secrets , dis- tillations , perfumes , ordering of wooll , hempe , flax , making cloth , and dyeing ; the knowledge of dayries , office of malt- ing of oates , their excellent service in a ...
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... preserved fruits , and sweetmeats from Portugal ; nay , we are even told of cherries served up at twenty shillings a pound . The city venison feasts had now become offensive to the queen and her nobility ; and a letter signed by the ...
... preserved fruits , and sweetmeats from Portugal ; nay , we are even told of cherries served up at twenty shillings a pound . The city venison feasts had now become offensive to the queen and her nobility ; and a letter signed by the ...
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... preserved in bunches ; and their juice is beneficial to inflamed gums , or in affec- tions of the tonsils ; in the North of Europe , it becomes a sub- stitute for lemon - juice in flavouring punch , etc. Preserved barberries make a ...
... preserved in bunches ; and their juice is beneficial to inflamed gums , or in affec- tions of the tonsils ; in the North of Europe , it becomes a sub- stitute for lemon - juice in flavouring punch , etc. Preserved barberries make a ...
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... preserved , it is still eaten as a cordial by eastern nations ; and the root is used in England to flavour the confectionery in small sugar - cakes which bear its name . It is tonic and stimulating . Flummery was oatmeal reduced to ...
... preserved , it is still eaten as a cordial by eastern nations ; and the root is used in England to flavour the confectionery in small sugar - cakes which bear its name . It is tonic and stimulating . Flummery was oatmeal reduced to ...
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Page 268 - The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Page 268 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
Page 34 - Than in five acres now of rented land. Content with little, I can piddle here On brocoli and mutton, round the year ; But ancient friends (though poor, or out of play) That touch my bell, I cannot turn away.
Page 141 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle...
Page 11 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace. The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 141 - Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment, and a firm, sagacious mind.
Page 28 - A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine Bay, and Afric coast.
Page 56 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Page 11 - Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Page 75 - If it were so that our fathers or the goodman of the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers, so well were they contented and with such base kind of furniture.