Cottage economy: containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread [&c. Publ. in 7 pt.].1822 |
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الصفحة 89 - ... out all slugs and insects. And, when March comes, and the ground is dry, hoe deep and well, and earth the plants up close to the lower leaves. As soon as the plants begin to grow, dig the ground with a spade clean and well, and let the spade go as near to the plants as you can without actually displacing the plants. Give them another digging in a month; and, if weeds come in the mean-while, hoe, and let not one live a week. "Oh! what a deal of work !
الصفحة 194 - You cut off both ends of the rush, and leave the prime part, which, on an average, may be about a foot and a half long. Then you take off all the green skin, except for about a fifth part of the way round the pith. Thus it is a piece of pith, all but a little strip of skin in one part, all the way up, which, observe, is necessary to hold the pith together all the way along.
الصفحة 153 - All the other parts taken away, the two sides that remain, and that are called flitches, are to be cured for bacon. They are first rubbed with salt on their insides, or flesh sides, then placed, one on the other, the flesh sides uppermost, in a...
الصفحة 13 - It is notorious that tea has no useful strength in it; that it contains nothing nutritious; that it, besides being good for nothing, has badness in it, because it is well known to produce want of sleep in many cases, and in all cases, to shake and weaken the nerves. It is, in fact, a weaker kind of laudanum, which enlivens for the moment and deadens afterwards.
الصفحة 11 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
الصفحة 74 - ... begin round the hole containing the batter, working the flour into the batter, and pouring in, as it...
الصفحة 13 - The drink, which has come to supply the place of beer has, in general, been tea. It is notorious, that tea has no useful strength in it ; that it contains nothing nutritious; that it, besides being good for nothing, has badness in it, because it is well known to produce want of sleep in many cases, and in all cases, to shake and weaken the nerves.
الصفحة 4 - English roast beef and plumb-pudding, and about English hospitality, had not their foundation in nothing. And, in spite of all the refinements of sickly minds, it is abundant living amongst the people at large, which is the great test of good government, and the surest basis of national greatness and security.
الصفحة 44 - ... as to beauty, though men may fall in love with girls at play, there is nothing to make them stand to their love like seeing them at work.
الصفحة 175 - He who ran deliberately inflict torture upon an animal in order to heighten the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, is an abuser of the authority which God has given him, and is, indeed, a tyrant in his heart: Who would think himself safe...