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Chapter I: E. B. C.: ‘The Stable.’ London, 5s (3)

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August gardening, 934

---- markets, 574

Aunt Eleanor’s tartlets, 394

Australian outfit, 722

Austrian dress, 728

Autumn milk, 156

Baba, 394

Babies’ clothing, 746

Bacalao, 510

Backboard for electric bell, 106

Back-to-back houses, 7

Bacon, boiled, 331

----, broiled, 332

----, buying, 575

---- fat, 332

----, fried, 332

----, salting, 125

----, spiced, 125

---- with cabbage, 331

---- ---- potatoes, 331

---- ---- spinach, 332

Bacon’s high-pressure heating system, 81

Bacteria in water, 23

Baden-Baden pudding, 394

Badminton (drink), 191

---- (game), 872

Bailey-Denton’s cistern filter, 33

Bailey’s oven pyrometer, 207

Bain marie, 242

Bakers’ ovens, 207

---- pyrometer, 207

Bakewell pudding, 394

Baking bread, 207

---- fish, 268

---- ovens in ranges, 222

Balcony pipes, 49

Baldness, 707, 809

Balm wine, 191

Banana syrup, 176

Banbury cake, 210

Bandaging, 783

Barbel, 580

----, broiled, 272

----, roast, 272

Barberries, preserved, 139

Barley gruel, 410

---- milk, 776

---- soup, 247

---- sugar, 437

---- water, 191, 775

Barm, 207

Barrel stand, 168

Barreling wine, 190

Barrels, cleaning, 169

Barszcz soup, 261, 506

Basement sinks, 50

---- walls, 96

Basting, 241

Bath buns, 211

---- cake, 211

---- chaps, 125

Bath, water apertures in, 49

Bathing, 828

---- dresses, 718

---- rules, 830

Bathroom, 49, 828

----, situation, 49

---- waste, 49

Batter-cream soup, 247

----, frying, 407

---- pudding, 395

Battery for electric bell, 102

Bean soup, 256

Beans, 582

----, broad, boiled, 372

----, French, 375

----, haricot, 375

----, keeping, 114, 118

Becaficos, 571

Béchamel sauce, 460

Bedclothes, 702

Bedding, disinfecting, 818

Bedfellows, 703

Bed of sickroom, 758

Bed rests, 760

Bedroom, 699

----, aspect for, 3

---- carpets, 101

---- cupboard, 98

---- curtains, 98, 101

----, decorating, 101

---- fire economiser, 64

---- floors, 101

----, furnishing, 101

---- furniture, 98

----, servants’, 700

---- suite, 99

---- walls, 101

----, warming, 699

---- woodwork, 101

Beds, 701

----, airing, 760

----, making, 702

----, position of, 760

Bedsteads, 98, 101, 700

Bed table, 760

Bed ticks, cleaning, 549

Beef, 309

---- à la financière, 309

---- à la macédoine, 309

---- à la mode, 309

---- à la Napolitaine, 309

----, boiled, 309

----, braised, 310

----, brasciolette, 310

----, bubble and squeak, 310

----, buying, 563, 565, 567

----, carving, 622

----, collared, 125

----, corned, 125

---- croquettes, 311

----, fillet, 311

----, frizzled, 311

----, Hamburgh, 127

---- hams, 125

---- hash, 311

----, hung, 311

----, Hungarian, 128

---- kidney, 311

----, minced collops, 311

----, mock brawn, 312

---- pot au feu, 313

----, potted, 125, 313

----, pressed, 313

----, roast, 314

----, salt, 314

----, salting, 125

----, scalloped, 314

----, spiced, 126, 314

---- tea, 258, 316, 771

---- tournedos, 316

---- vinaigrette, 316

Beefsteak à la Bordelaise, 315

---- pie, 315

---- pudding, 315

----, stewed, 315

Beer, 179

----, bottling, 179

----, brightening cloudy, 179

----, finings for, 180

----, restoring sour, 180

---- soup, 247, 489

----, summer, 179

Bees, keeping, 928

Beetroot, 565, 582

----, baked, 372

---- beer, 191

----, boiled, 372

----, preserving, 139

---- salad, 383

---- with cream sauce, 372

Belgian dishes, 484

Bell and telephone, 103

Belladonna liniment, 778

---- poisoning, 792

Bells, 102

Bells, electric, 102

Bell traps, 39, 45, 50

Bell-wire pipes, 49, 102

Bell wires, 102

Belts, 711

Benches, 862

Benzol poisoning, 792

Bernays’s manganese filter, 29

Bethlehem dress, 742

Bézique, Polish, 686

Bhartas, 495

Bicarbonate of potash, 778

---- ---- soda, 778

Bichromate of potash poisoning, 793

---- pile, 93

Bilberry wine, 192

Billiard room, aspect for, 3

Bills of fare, dinners, 635

Bins for wine, 190

Birch wine, 192

Birds’-nests soup, 247

Bischof’s spongy iron filter, 30

Biscuit charlotte, 395

---- powder, 211

Biscuits, 210

----, Abernethy, 210

----, American, 210

----, Brighton, 212

----, buttered, 212

----, Captain’s, 212

----, cracknel, 212

----, drop, 213

----, filbert, 213

----, lemon, 214

----, macaroons, 214

----, Naples, 214

----, Queen’s, 217

----, rout, 217

----, Savoy, 218

----, sweetmeat nuts, 219

----, tops and bottoms, 220

----, wine, 220

----, York, 220

Bishop (drink), 192

Bishop pudding, 395

Bites, 780

Bitter-almonds flavour, 478

Bitters, 180

Blackbeetles, destroying, 557

Blackberries, 579

Blackberry brandy, 182

---- cordial, 183

---- jam, 137, 139

---- jelly, 140

---- mould, 395

---- pudding, 395

---- syrup, 176

---- tart, 395

---- wine, 192

Black butter, 461

Blackcock, carving, 632

Black currant cordial, 189

---- ---- jam, 137

---- ---- jelly, 140

---- currants, bottled, 140

Blackened ceilings, 85

Black Forest dress, 731

Black Ghost, 682

Black puddings, 511

Blanched turkey, 366

Blancmange, 395, 601, 770

Blankets, 702

Bleeding, 781

Blind area walls, 5

Blinds of nursery, 746

Blistering fluid poisoning, 793

Blisters, 763

Bloater à la Sefton, 272

---- on toast, 272

Bloaters, pickled, 487

----, potted, 126

Block, 688

Blowers, 80

Blowing out candles, 83

Blue gum for colds, 801

Blue pill, 778

Bluestone poisoning, 793

Blue vinney cheese, 164

Blueing machine, 855

Boar’s head, 126, 332

Bobbins for bells, 106

Bobotie, 487

Boiled potatoes, keeping, 113

Boiler explosions, 838

Boilers, 832

----, steam, 940

Boiling, 241

---- fish, 268

Boker’s bitters, 180

Bola d’amor, 504

Bolding’s gas regulator burner, 89

Bolsters, 702

Bombay ducks, 272

---- pudding, 395

Bondon cheese, 166

Bone, cleaning, 533

---- soup, 247

Boned ham, 334

---- shoulder of mutton, 330

Bones, broken, 783

---- for soup, keeping, 112

Boning fowl, 349, 350

---- turkey, 367

Bonne femme soup, 248, 267

Books, care of, 903

----, cleaning, 541

---- on bedroom, 705

---- on dairy, 167

---- on dining room, 647

---- on drawing room, 698

---- on dressing room, 745

---- on dwelling, 111

---- on farmyard. 929

---- on garden, 935

---- on housewife’s room, 582

---- on kitchen, 517

---- on playground, 888

---- on schoolroom, 869

---- on sickroom, 826

---- on workroom, 902

Boots, 711

----, buying, 712

----, preserving, 713

Borax, 778

Bordeaux cake, 211

Bordelaise sauce, 461

Borshch, 507

Boston brown bread, 481

---- pudding, 396

Bottles, cleaning, 170, 531

----, corking, 170

----, drying, 170

----, tying down, 170

Bottling beer, 179

---- black currants, 140

---- cherries, 140

---- cider, 194

---- currants, 138

---- damsons, 142

---- fruit, 138

---- gooseberries 138, 142

---- plums, 138, 148

---- raspberries, 138

---- rhubarb, 138, 151

---- strawberries, 138

---- wine, 190

Bottling-wax, 138

Boudin of fish, 269

Boudoir furniture, 98

Bouillabaisse, 269, 505

Bouilli, 242

Bouillon, 242

Bournes, 13

Bowle, 489

Box gutters, 18

---- mangle, 857

Boyle’s air cooler, 59

---- ---- warmer, 77

---- ventilator, 58

Bracciolette, 503

Braces, 711

Brain worries, 794

Brains, 569

Braising, 242

Bramah closets, 47, 48

Bran bread, 593

Brandied peaches, 147

---- plums, 149

---- quinces, 150

Brandy bitters, 180

---- butter, 461

---- flavour, 478

---- sauce, 461

---- shrub, 183

---- snaps, 211

Brass, cleaning, 536

Brawn, 126, 333

----, mock, 312

Bread, 207, 592

----, almond, 210

----, baking, 207

----, Colchester, 212

----, curing sour dough, 208

----, diet, 213

----, fancy, 210

----, flour for, 208

---- for invalids, 772

----, gas ovens, 208

---- in tins, 209

----, Italian, 214

----, keeping, 113

----, kneading, 209

----, milk for, 208

---- mould, 492

---- ovens, 207

---- potatoes for, 208

----, short-, 218

----, steam ovens, 208

----, testing, 520

----, Vienna, 220

---- with barm, 207

---- ---- German yeast, 208

---- ---- seconds flour, 209

Breadcrumbs, baked, 461

----, fried, 354, 461

----, plain, 461

Bread-making in hot weather, 209

Bread poultice, 762

---- puddings, 396

---- sauce, 461

Breadstuffs, buying, 566

Breakages, law of, 961

Breakfast cake, 211

---- cloth, laying, 607

Breakfasts, 641

----, wedding, 646

Bream, 272

----, broiled, 273

----, buying, 565

----, roast, 273

----, soused, 273

----, stewed, 273

Breast of mutton, 317

---- veal, 343

Breathing in smoke, 110

Bretzeln, 489

Brewers’ yeast, 207

Brewing, 179

Brianees, 496

Brick drains, evils of, 52

---- ----, objections to, 53

---- ----, signs of perishing, 53

Brick-flue ranges, 221

Bride cake, 211, 216

Brie cheese, 166

Brightening cloudy beer, 179

Brighton biscuits, 212

Brill, 273, 565, 566, 568, 570, 576, 580

Brioche, 397

Briquettes, 581

British cheeses, 164

Brittany dress, 739, 742

Broad beans, 573

---- ----, boiled, 372

Broccoli, 372, 565, 582

---- with white sauce, 373

Brochan, 509

Broiling fish, 268

Broken bones, 783

Bronze, cleaning, 537

Broth, mutton, 259, 318

----, Scotch, 265

----, tea-kettle, 266

Broths as food, 599

Brown and Green’s kitchener, 228

Brown bread, 593

---- ---- ice, 442

---- butter sauce, 462

---- pudding, 397

---- sauce, 462

---- sharp sauce, 473

Browned crab, 277

Brunoise soup, 248, 267

Brushing the hair, 810

Brussels carpet, 96

---- sprouts, 579, 582

---- ----, boiled, 373

---- ---- omelet, 454

Bubble and squeak, 310

Bucellas (drink), 193

Buckskin gloves, cleaning, 532

Buckwheat cakes, 481

Bugs, destroying, 558

Bulgarian dress, 728, 731

Bullaces, 579

Bullock’s heart, 310

Bumaloes, 272

Bunions, 806

Buns, Bath, 211

----, Chelsea, 212

----, cinnamon, 212

----, hot cross, 213

----, saffron, 218

Burdwan, 496

Burglars, precautions, 108

Burgundy cup, 193

Burners, Argand, 87

----, gas, number needed, 85, 87

---- of gas fires, 78

----, regulating, 89

Burning kitchen waste without causing smell, 49

Burns, 785

Bursting water-pipes, 846

Butter, 156

----, churning, 157

----, English, inferior, 157

----, keeping, 113

----, making, English faults, 157

----, ----, Normandy, 158

----, potting, 159

----, putting up, 158

----, rancid, 159

---- room, 156

----, testing, 520

---- yield, 156

Buttered biscuits, 212

---- jack (drink), 193

---- lobster, 283

Buttermilk creams, 403

Butters, 460

Buttonhole patch, 892

Buying clothes, 714

---- fish, 565, 566, 567, 569, 570, 571, 573, 575

---- fruit, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 572, 573, 576

---- game, 565, 566, 568, 569, 571, 573, 574, 575

---- meat, 563, 565, 567, 569, 570, 572, 575

---- poultry, 565, 566, 568, 569, 571, 573, 575

---- vegetables, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 572, 573, 574, 576

Cabbage, 565, 570, 573

----, boiled, 373

----, cold slaugh, 374

----, hot slaugh, 374

----, keeping, 114

----, pickling, 132

----, red, 379

---- salad, 383, 484

---- soup, 264

----, stuffed, 374

Cabinet pudding, 393

Cacao cordial, 183

Cakes, 210

----, almond, 210

----, almond Savoy, 210

----, Banbury, 210

----, Bath, 211

----, Bordeaux, 211

----, breakfast, 211

----, bride, 211, 216

----, cheese, 212

----, cinnamon, currant, and caraway, 212

----, curd cheese, 213

----, Derby, 213

----, farls, 215

----, fish, 269

----, ginger, 213

----, iced, 442

----, lemon cheese, 214

----, Lord Mayor’s, 214

----, lunch, 214

----, Madeira, 214

----, mothering, 219

----, oatmeal, 214

----, plum, 215

----, pound, 216

----, Prussian, 216

----, Queen’s, 217

----, rice pound, 217

----, rout, 217

----, Savoy, 218

----, school, 214

----, seed, 218

----, Shrewsbury, 218

----, Simnel, 219

----, sponge, 219

----, tea, 219

----, twelfth, 216, 220

----, Venice, 220

----, Yorkshire, 220

----, Yule, 220

Calcium sulphide in luminous paint, 83

Calecannon, 378

Caledonian cream, 398

Calendering machine, 858

Calf’s brains, 337

---- ---- and tongue, 337

---- feet, 337

---- ---- fritters, 337

---- ---- jelly, 338

---- ---- pie, 338

---- ---- pudding, 338

---- head, 338

---- ----, boiled, 338

Calf’s head, carving, 626

---- ---- fritters, 339

---- ----, hashed, 339

---- ---- pie, 339

---- ---- soup, 248

---- liver, 339

---- sweetbread, 343

Californian Gamblers, 679

Calisthenics, 867

Calls, 102

Calomel, 778

Caloric engine, 951

Calorigen stove, 78

Cambridge pudding, 398

Camembert cheese, 165

Camphor liniment, 778

Canadian dishes, 486

Canary pudding, 398

Candied chestnuts, 437

---- lemon peel, 144

Candles, 83

----, blowing out, 83

----, silver torch, 83

Candying syrups, 175

Canvas-back duck, 565

Canvas joining, 893

Cape dishes, 487

Caper sauce, 462

Capercailzie, 565, 581

----, carving, 633

Capillaire syrup, 176

Capsicum flavour, 478

Captain’s biscuits, 212

Caramel custards, 398

---- pudding, 399

Caraway cordial, 183

Carbide of iron filter, 29

Carbocalcis filters, 29

Carbolic acid poisoning, 793

Carbonate magnesia, 778

Carcel lamp, 83

Card sleights, 667

Cardinal (drink), 193

Cardoons, 579, 582

----, boiled, 374

Carnival krapfen, 489

Carp, 273, 580

---- au bleu, 273

----, broiled, 273

---- en matelote, 273

---- in brown sauce, 273

---- pie, 274

----, roast, 274

----, soused, 274

----, stewed, 274

---- with Polish sauce, 274

Carpet joining, 894

---- lining, 96

---- made into oilcloth, 524

----, sweeping, 525

Carpets, 96

----, bedroom, 101

----, cleaning, 524

----, sickroom, 756

Carriage, care of, 913

Carrot jam, 140

---- pudding, 399

---- salad, 383

---- soup, 248

Carrots, 568, 569, 570, 573, 579, 582

---- à la Flamande, 374

---- à la maître d’hôtel, 374

---- à la Nivernaise, 374

Carrying infants, 749

---- injured persons, 787

Carving, 620

---- beef, 622

---- blackcock, 632

---- calf’s head, 626

---- capercailzie, 633

---- cod, 620

Carving duck, 629

---- fish, 620

---- flounders, 621

---- fowl, 628

---- game, 630

---- goose, 630

---- grouse, 632

---- guinea fowl, 630

---- gurnet, 621

---- haddock, 621

---- ham, 627

---- hare, 631

---- herring, 621

---- John Dory, 621

---- lamb, 625

---- landrail, 631

---- loin of mutton, 625

---- mackerel, 621

---- meat, 622

---- mullet, 621

---- mutton, 624

---- odd dishes, 627

---- partridge, 632

---- pheasant, 632

---- pigeon, 630

---- plover, 631

---- pork, 627

---- poultry, 628

---- ptarmigan, 633

---- rabbit, 630

---- salmon, 621

---- sheep’s head, 627

---- shell-fish, 622

---- snipe, 631

---- sole, 622

---- sucking pig, 627

---- turbot, 622

---- turkey, 629

---- veal, 626

---- venison, 625

---- whiting, 622

---- wild fowl, 631

---- woodcock, 630

Carving-knife, wielding, 627

Cask stand, 168

Casks, cleaning, 169

Cast-iron cisterns, 19

---- drains, 54

---- ----, joining, 54

Castle pudding, 399

Castor oil, 778

---- ---- as an aperient, 805

Catching complaints, 813

Catsup, 134

Caucasian dress, 742

Caudles, 773

Cauliflower, 372, 570, 573, 576, 579

----, dressed, 373

---- salad, 383

---- soup, 249

Causes of fires, 108

Caustic poisoning, 793

Cavalier’s broil, 331

Cavershed fish, 514

Caviar and eggs, 450

Cavies, 356

Cavity walls, 5

Cedrat cordial, 183

---- essence, 178

Ceilings, 7, 99

---- blackened by gas, 85

----, dairy, 155

----, nursery, 746

Celeriac, boiled, 374

Celery, 565, 582

----, boiled, 374

---- cordial, 183

---- flavour, 478

---- on toast, 374

---- salad, 383

---- sauce, 462

Celery soup, 249

----, stewed, 375

Cellars, 168

----, curing damp in, 9

----, disinfecting after floods, 55

----, ventilating, 168

Cement, fireproof, 232

Cemented cisterns, 19

Cerkestal, 511

Cesspools, 38

---- and wells, 14

Chablis cup, 193

Chachki, 496

Chaff beds, 701

Chair rail, 99

Chairs, drawing-room, 97

Chalk as fuel, 82

Chamberland filter, 32

Chamois leather, cleaning, 534

Champagne beer, 179

---- cider, 171

---- cup, 193

----, sham, 204

Chancery, 689

Changing sheets, 759

Chapatis, 497

Chapman’s entire wheat flour, 751

Chapped hands, 797

Char, 570

----, potted, 126

Character of servant, 960

Charcoal as a filter, 23

---- filters, 27

Charity Girl dress, 735

Charlotte Russe, 399

Chartreuse, 183

Chaudeau sauce, 462

Chaudfroid sauce, 462

Cheap fuel, 82

---- soups, 249

Cheddar cheese, 164

Cheese, 159

----, arnotto for colouring, 159

----, baked, 444

---- biscuits, 445, 481

----, blue vinney, 164

----, boiled, 445

----, Bondon, 166

---- boulettes, 445

----, Brie, 166

----, British, 164

---- cake, 212

----, Camembert, 165

---- canapés, 445

----, cheddar, 164

----, Cheshire, 164

----, colour for, 159

----, colouring, 163

----, Cottenham, 164

----, cracks in, 163

----, cream, 160

---- cream, 446

---- custard, 445

----, Daventry, 164

----, defects in, 163

----, Derbyshire, 165

---- dishes, 444

----, double Dorset, 164

----, dunlop, 165

----, Dutch, 166

----, eating, 634

----, foreign, 165

---- fritters, 446

----, Gloucester, 165

----, Gorgonzola, 166

----, Gruyère, 166

----, heaving, 163

----, holes in, 163

----, keeping, 113

----, Leicester, 165

----, macaroni, 414

Cheese making in France, 163

----, marbling, 163

----, Marolles, 166

---- meringues, 446

----, milk for, 159

----, moulds in, 161

----, Neufchatel, 166

----, new-milk, 160

----, North Wilts, 165

---- omelets, 454

----, Parmesan, 166

----, peach, 421

----, Pont l’évêque, 166

----, Port du Salut, 167

----, potato, 446

----, potted, 446

---- pudding, 417

---- puffs, 447

---- ramakins, 447

----, rankness, 164

----, rennet for, 159

----, ripening, 161

----, roasted, 448

----, Roquefort, 167

----, rush cream, 160

----, sage, 160

---- sandwiches, 448

---- scallop, 448

----, Schabzieger, 167

---- soufflé, 448

---- soup, 261

----, stewed, 448

----, Stilton, 165

----, Stracchino, 166

---- straws, 448

----, surface, 163

----, sweating, 163

---- tartlets, 449

----, texture, 163

---- toast, 449

----, tomato, 449

Chelsea buns, 212

Chemical experiments, 674

Chemicals for heating, 82

Cherries, 572, 574

----, bottled, 140

----, dried, 140

----, keeping, 117

----, preserved, 141

Cherry bitters, 181

---- bounce, 183

---- brandy, 184, 193

---- cordial, 184

---- flavour, 479

---- jam, 137, 141

---- jelly, 399

---- pudding, 400

---- ratafia, 184

---- sauce, 462

---- soup, 250, 490

---- tart, 400

---- water ice, 442

Cheshire cheese, 164

Chestnut and truffle stuffing, 477

---- compote, 400

---- cream, 400

---- mould, 492

---- pudding, 400, 506

---- sauce, 462

---- soup, 250

---- stuffing, 367, 463

Chestnuts, 579

----, candied, 437

Chicken, see Fowl

---- broth, 769

---- carving, 628

---- country captain, 497

---- curry, 497

----, Malay, 500

---- soup 250

Chicken-pox, 813

Chickens, 923

Chiffonade soup, 267

Chilblains, 798

Children’s diet, 596

Chimney cowls, 59

----, smoky, 80

----, ventilating by, 57

Chimneys affecting ventilation pipes, 43

----, place of, 43

Chinaman dress, 731

Chinks in floors, stopping, 56

---- ---- windows, stopping, 56

Chintzes, cleaning, 549

Chip goods, cleaning, 522

Chloral hydrate poisoning, 792

Chlorate of potash, 778

Chloric ether, 778

Chloride of mercury poisoning, 793

Chlorodyne poisoning, 793

Chloroform, 778, 792

Chocolate blancmange, 400

---- creams, 438

---- ice cream, 442

---- icing, 442

---- pudding, 400

---- soup, 490

---- strudels, 401

Choking, 790

Choosing furniture, 97

Chorizos, 510

Chotodriec, 507

Chow-Chow, 482

Chowder, 270, 482

Christmas dinners, 640

---- plum pudding, 423

Chub, 274

----, baked, 274

----, broiled, 274

----, roast, 274

Churning butter, 157

Churns, 158

Chutney, 132

Cider, 194

---- brandy, 182

----, champagne, 171

---- cup, 194

Cigar smoking, 606

Cigarette smoking, 607

Cinder tennis courts, 881

Cinderella dance refreshments, 647

Cinnamon brandy, 184

---- buns, 212

---- cordial, 184

----, currant, and caraway cake, 212

---- flavour, 479

---- sauce, 463

Circuit closer for electric bell, 103

Circulation system for hot water, 80

Cistern filters, 33

---- in roof, 43

---- pipes, trapping, 44

---- waste pipes, 19

Cisterns for water, 18

---- ---- w.c.’s, 44

----, rain-water, 15, 16

----, water contaminated in, 39

Citrate of iron and quinine, 778

---- ---- magnesia, 778

Citron cordial, 184

---- pudding, 401

Citronelle cordial, 184

Citrons, preserved, 141

Clairet cordial, 184

Clam fritters, 482

Claret cup, 194

---- jelly, 401

Clarges Street pudding, 401

Clarifying stock, 246

Clarke’s nightlights, 83

Clary wine, 195

Clay as fuel, 82

Cleaning, 521

---- alabaster, 536

---- bed ticks, 549

---- bone, 533

---- books, 541

---- bottles, 170, 531

---- brass, 536, 537

---- bronze, 537

---- carpets, 524

---- casks, 169

---- chamois leather, 534

---- chintzes, 549

---- chip goods, 522

---- coins, 538

---- coloured dresses, 549

---- copper, 537

---- copper electros, 538

---- copper vessels, 538

---- crape scarfs, 549

---- decanters, 532

---- feathers, 522

---- fenders, 523

---- firearms, 523

---- flannels, 549

---- floorcloth, 524

---- floors, 527

---- frames, 545

---- furniture, 528

---- furs, 528

---- gas chandeliers, 538

---- gilt mountings, 538

---- glass articles, 529

---- glass globes, 530

---- glass slides, 531

---- gloves, 532

---- gold, 538

---- hands, 533

---- iron, 538

---- ivory, 533

---- lace, 551

---- leather goods, 534

---- linen, 547

---- linoleum, 524

---- marble, 535

---- metal goods, 536

---- milk vessels, 154, 156, 158

---- mirrors, 529

---- morocco leather, 534

---- oilcloth, 524

---- paint, 540

---- paint brushes, 541

---- paper, 541

---- parchment, 542

---- photographic plates, 530

---- pictures, 542

---- plate, 539

---- plated goods, 539

---- plaster, 535

---- prints, 543

---- range flues, 224

---- rugs, 528

---- saddles, 534

---- saucepans, 237

---- scale pans, 537

---- sheepskins, 529

---- sickroom, 755

---- silk goods, 552

---- silver goods, 539

---- silver lace, 540

---- skins, 528

---- sponge, 545

---- steel, 538

---- stone, 535

---- straw goods, 522

---- stuffed specimens, 547

---- teapot, 547

---- textile goods, 547

---- tobacco pipes, 555

---- vellum, 542

Cleaning violin, 555

---- violin bow, 556

---- wall-papers, 556

---- watches, 556

---- windows, 529

---- zinc vessels, 540

Clear butter, 463

---- soup, 251

---- ---- with custard, 252

---- ---- ---- poached eggs, 252

---- ---- ---- quenelles, 252

---- stock, 245

Clifton pudding, 401

Clinical thermometer, 764

Clockwork motors, 954

Close-fire ranges, 222

Close-fire stoves, 71

Closets, disinfecting, 821

----, situation, 7

Clothes, buying, 714

----, choosing, 714

---- for foreign schools, 717

---- of infectious patient, 815

---- stores, 100

Clothing, disinfecting, 818

----, intermediate, 710

---- of children, 746

----, requirements of, 709

Clotted cream, 403

Cloudy beer, brightening, 179

Clove brandy, 184

---- cordial, 184

---- pink ratafia, 184

Clown and Fairies, 682

Clustering gas lights, 86

Coach house, 913

Coalfish, 573

Coals, buying, 581

---- for kitcheners, 226

Cocido, 510

Cock-a-leekie soup, 253

Cockle stove, 71

Cockle soup, 253

Cockles, 271, 580

Cocoa as a drink, 605

---- jelly, 770

---- ratafia, 184

----, testing, 521

Coconut cakes, 514

---- candy, 438

---- ice, 442

---- matting, 97

---- pudding, 401, 497

---- soup, 253, 497

Cod, 275, 503

---- au gratin, 275

----, baked, 275

---- balls, 486

----, boiled, 275

---- brandade, 276

----, buying, 565, 566, 567, 570, 576, 578, 580, 582

----, carving, 620

----, fried, 275

---- liver oil, taking, 777

----, mashed salt, 276

---- rock, 276

---- roe, 276

---- sauté, 277

---- sound, 277

---- steaks, 277

----, stewed, 277

----, twice laid, 277

---- with cream, 277

Coffee, 480

---- as a drink, 605

---- cakes, 401

---- cream, 402

---- flavour, 479

---- ice cream, 443

---- ---- pudding, 402

Coffee jelly, 402, 770

---- making, 481

---- pots, 481

---- pudding, 402

---- ratafia, 184

---- roasting, 480

---- testing, 521

Cognac bitters, 181

Coil pipes for heating, 81

Coils for bells, 106

Coin sleights, 665

Coins, cleaning, 538

Coke, 581

---- for kitcheners, 226

Colbert soup, 267

Colchester bread, 212

Cold, applying to the head, 762

---- baths, 828

---- climates, windows for, 60

---- drinks and indigestion, 603

---- feet, 798

---- meat sauce, 463

---- slaugh, 374

---- water for freshening air of rooms, 56

---- weather diet, 595

---- wine caudle, 773

Colds, 799

Collar ironer, 858

Collared beef, 125

---- eels, 279

College pudding, 402

Collops of tinned meat, 307

Colonial outfits, 722

Coloured walls, 99

Colouring cheese, 159

---- gravy, 469

Coltsfoot wine, 195

Combing the hair, 810

Combustion, 61

Common complaints, 794

Concrete floors, 7

---- tennis courts, 882

Condé soup, 256

Condensed milk, 596

Condy’s fluid for removing taint from meat, 113

Confectionery, 437

Conger-eel soup, 253

Conger eels, 278

---- ----, broiled, 278

----, buying, 565, 566, 573

Conservative pudding, 402

Conservatory, aspect for, 3

Constantine’s convoluted stove, 74

---- “treasure” range, 229

Constipation, 803

Construction of dwellings, 4

Consumption, 805

Conti soup, 257

Convoluted stoves, 74

Convulsions, 788

Cookery, processes of, 240

Cookies, 486

Cooking by gas, 235

---- ---- oil, 237

---- ---- steam, 233

---- ranges, see Kitchen ranges.

---- smells, 243

Cooling air of room, 59

---- milk, 113

---- milk-pans, 154, 155, 156, 158

---- wine, 191

Copper, cleaning, 537

---- electros, cleaning, 538

---- stewpans, 238

---- vessels, cleaning, 538

----, washing, 848

Corach, 463

Cordials, 181

Coriander cordial, 184

---- flavour, 479

Corking, 170

Corks, preserving, 171

---- selecting, 170

Corn beer, 195

---- bread loaf, 486

---- flour, buying, 578

---- meal muffins, 486

---- salad, 570

Corned beef, 125

Cornices, 99

Cornish pasties, 402

Corns, 806

Corpse, disinfecting, 820

Correspondence, 649

Corrosive sublimate poisoning, 793

Cottage beer, 195

---- pie, 402

---- pudding, 402

Cottager’s dance, 652

Cottenham cheese, 164

Coughs, 799

Counter-hemmed patch, 890

Country captain, 348, 497

Court plaster, 762

Cow-heel, 310

Cow-house, 916

Cowls for ventilating, 59

Cows, 915

----, breeds, 915

----, choosing, 915

----, keeping, 915

----, tethering, 917

Cowslip syrup, 195

---- wine, 195

Crab-apple cheese, 403

---- jam, 141

---- jelly, 141

Crab-apples, preserved, 141

Crab backs, 514

Crab, 277, 580

----, browned, 277

----, buying, 565, 570

----, devilled, 278

----, dressed, 277

Cracknel biscuits, 212

Cramp, 830

Cranberries, preserved, 142

Cranberry jelly, 403

---- tart, 403

Crape scarfs, cleaning, 549

Crayfish, 278, 573, 576

---- soup, 253

Cream as food, 600

---- cake, apple, 389

---- caudle, 774

---- cheese, 160

----, clotted, 403

----, Devonshire, 155

---- jars, 156

---- mead, 196

---- ratafia, 184

----, ripening, 157

---- sauce, 463

----, scalded, 403

----, Swiss, 156

----, syrup, 176

---- toast, 486

---- waffles 487

----, whipped, 403

---- yields, 156

Cream-of-tartar, 778

Creams, 769

Crécy soup, 248

Crême de Brie cheese, 166

---- ---- macarons cordial, 185

---- ---- Naphe cordial, 185

---- des Barbades cordial, 185

---- d’orange cordial, 185

Creosote poisoning, 793

Cresses, 565

Cretonnes, 98

Cricket grounds, 874

Crickets, destroying, 558

Croccante, 503

Crockery, noiseless, 756

Cromartie burner, 91

Croquettes of fish, 270

Crossing darn, 899

Croûte au pot, 254

Cruisie lamp, 83

Crullers, 486

Crumpets, 212

Crust soup, 254

Crystal Palace pudding, 404

Cucumber salad, 384

---- sauce, 482

Cucumbers, 565, 568, 573

----, pickled, 133

----, preserved, 142

Cuff ironer, 858

Cupboards, 99

----, bedroom, 98

Curaçao, 185

---- cordial, 185

---- jelly, 404

Curd cheese cake, 213

Curing foods, 123

Curlew, 566, 568

Curling tongs, 809

Currant jelly, 404

---- ratafia, 185

---- syrup, 176

---- wine, 196

Currants, 572, 574, 582

----, bottling, 138

----, keeping, 117

Currie powders, 463

Curried eggs, 452

---- fowl, 348

---- rabbits, 364

---- sardines, 296

---- veal, 339

Curries, 498

Curry, fish, 270

----, Persian, 502

Curtains, 98

----, bedroom, 101

----, nursery, 746

----, sickroom, 756

Cussy soup, 260

Custard apples, 568

---- sauce, 465

---- soup, 254

Custards, 404

Cutlets, fish, 270

Cut-outs for electric light, 95

Cuts, 788

Cyanide of potassium poisoning, 792

Cycling, 886

Cygnet, 347

D Traps, 45, 46

Dab, 278

Dace, 278, 580

----, boiled, 278

----, stewed, 278

Dachpappe roof, 6

Dairy, 154

----, aspect for, 3

----, building, 154

----, butter, 156

----, ---- room, 156

----, ---- yield, 156

----, ceiling, 155

----, cheese, 159

----, churning, 157

----, churns, 158

----, cooling, 154, 158

----, cream jars, 156

----, cream yield, 156

----, directions for, 158

---- door, 155

---- farming as an industry, 158

---- floor, 154

----, literature, 167

----, milk pans, 154, 155, 156, 158

----, position, 154, 158

----, proportions, 154

----, quality of milk, 156

----, shelves, 154

----, skimming milk, 156

----, temperature, 154

---- utensils, washing, 154, 156, 158

----, ventilation, 154

---- walls, 154

---- windows, 155

Dal-puri, 498

Dame Trot dress, 731

Damp cellar, curing, 9

---- course, 5

Dampers of kitchen ranges, 224

Dampness in dwellings, 4

Dam-pukht, 498

---- of duck, 498

Damson cheese, 404

---- wine, 196

Damsons, 579

----, bottled, 142

Dance refreshments, 647

Dances, old-fashioned, 652

Dancing floors, 651

Dandelion tea, 196

Dandelions, 375

Dandriff, 707, 809

Danish jelly, 405

Darned patch, 891

Darning, 895

Dash wheel, 854

Date pudding, 405

Daventry cheese, 164

Davey’s safety motor, 946

Davis’s gas cooker, 236

Dawes’s window fastener, 108

Daylight, 82

---- reflectors, 83

Dead, disinfecting, 820

Deadly nightshade poisoning, 792

Decanters, cleaning, 532

December gardening, 935

---- markets, 581

Decorating, 95

---- bedrooms, 101

---- ceilings, 99

---- kitchen walls, 96

---- walls, 99

---- windows, 100

Decorticated meal, 594

Decoudun ironer, 856

Deep-well pump, 22

Defects in cheese, 163

---- ---- sanitation, detecting, 40

Defries safety lamp, 84

Derby cake, 213

Derbyshire cheese, 165

Desks, 862

Dessert, eating, 635

Destroying vermin, 556

Detecting defects in sanitation, 40

---- fire, 109

Devil sauce, 465

Devilled crab, 278

---- fowl, 349

---- kidneys, 321

---- mackerel, 286

---- oysters, 289

---- salmon, 295

---- sardines, 296

---- turkey, 367

Devonshire cream, 155

---- junket, 155

Dhall curry, 499

Dhurries, 98

Diagonal darn, 896

Diarrhœa, 806

Dicke milch, 490

Diet bread, 213

Dietetics, 583

Digestibility of foods, 589

Digestive foods, 774

Dilapidations, law of, 957

Dimity curtains, 98

Dingy pudding, 490

Dining room, 583

---- ----, aspect for, 3

---- ---- furniture, 98

---- ---- literature, 647

Dinner, laying, 613

---- wines, 641

Dinners, bills of fare, 635

----, Christmas, 640

----, etiquette of, 633

----, Lenten, 639

----, vegetarian, 639

Diphtheria, 814

Diplomatic pudding, 405

Dipstone trap, 52

Dip traps, 38

Dircksian phantasmagoria, 676

Direct-action closets 47, 48

Disagreeable odours, removing from hands, 533

Discharge of waste pipes, 44

---- pipes, 38

Disconnecting chambers, 51

---- ---- for drains, 42

---- gullies, 18

---- traps, 51

Disinfecting ashpits, 50

---- cellars after floods, 55

Disinfection, 817

Dislocations, 808

Distress for rent, 956

Dog bites, 781

Dogs and burglars, 108

Dolma Hindi, 511

Dolmas, 512

Domestic motors, 936

---- remedies, 717

---- safety lamps, 84

---- system of electric light, 93

Dominoes, 690

Doopiazeh curry, 500

Door, dairy, 155

Dorée cordial, 185

Dorset, double, cheese, 164

Dotterel, 580

Double Dorset cheese, 164

---- filter cistern, 34

---- Gloucester cheese, 165

---- square darn, 896

---- windows, 60, 83

Doubtful Visitor, 683

Dough, curing sour, 208

Dover’s powder, 778

Down draughts from chimneys, 43

Dow’s range, 230

Draining walls, 5

Drains, 51

---- admitting sewer gas, 39

----, bad joints in, 40

----, brick, 51

----, cast-iron, 54

----, course of, 52

----, dipstone trap for, 52

----, disconnecting, 42

----, dry laid, 52

----, faults in, 54

----, flap trap in, 54

----, foul air from, 52

----, house, 35

----, inspection by vestry, 54

----, ---- chambers in, 54

----, joints in, 52

----, main, 51

----, manholes in, 52

----, pipe, 52

----, rats in, 51, 53

----, removing grease from, 50

----, slope for, 38

----, stoneware, 52

----, stopped, 38, 50

----, testing, 40, 52

----, ventilation of, 38

Draught, sluggish, 80

----, want of, in ranges, 225

Draughts, avoiding, 55

----, excluding, 56

Drawing room, 648

---- ----, aspect for, 3

---- ---- chairs, 97

---- ---- etiquette, 648

---- ---- tables, 97

Draw-off pipes, 44

Draw sheet, 759

Dresdener torte, 490

Dress, 709

----, fancy, 728

---- for the moors, 722

---- ---- walking tour, 722

---- ---- yacht, 722

----, lawn tennis, 722

----, taste in, 714

----, travelling, 721

Dressed cauliflower, 373

---- crab, 277

---- sardines, 296

---- whiting, 306

Dresses, coloured, cleaning, 549

Dressing fish, 268

Dressing-gowns, 708

---- -jackets, 708

---- -room, 706

Dried cherries, 140

---- haddock, 280

---- turtle soup, 267

Drinking in hot weather, 603

---- liqueurs, 635

---- -water, 519

---- - ---- cisterns, 45

---- - ---- taps, 45

---- - ----, test for, 24

---- wine, 635

Drinks, 602

----, aerated, 171

---- for invalids, 774

---- summer, 205

Dripping paste, 421

----, turned, 112

Driving, 911

Drop biscuits, 213

Dropped stitch, 900

Drops, 213

Drowning, 788

Drum principle in warming, 76

Drunkard’s Dream, 682

Dry laid drains, 52

---- ratafia, 185

Drying bottles, 170

----flooded houses, 54

---- -room, 856

Duck, carving, 629

----, dam-pukht, 498

----, roast, 347

----, stewed, 347

Ducks, 347, 566, 569, 571, 573, 578, 580

----, keeping, 925

Duckweed and non-potable water, 604

Duel, 680

Dunlop cheese, 165

Duplex safety lamps, 84

Dutch cheese, 166

---- dishes, 487

Dutch dress, 728, 735

---- sauce, 466

Dwellings, airing, 7

----, aspect, 2

----, back-to-back, 7

----, bathroom, 49

----, bells, 102

----, calls, 102

----, chemically heating, 82

----, construction, 3

----, dampness in, 4

----, decoration, 95

----, drains, 52

----, excluding snakes from, 8

----, floors, 7, 96

----, foundation, 4

----, furniture, 95

----, general arrangements, 7

----, heating by steam, 81, 82

----, heating by water at high pressure, 81

----, housemaid’s sink, 45

----, in earthquake countries, 10

----, lighting, 82

----, prospect, 2

----, pumps, 20

----, reducing echoes, 8

----, roof, 5

----, sanitation, 35

----, sinks, 50

----, site, 1

----, situation of closet, 7

----, soil, 1

----, supplementary literature, 111

----, thieves, 108

----, trees around, 2

----, ventilation, 55

----, warming, 60

----, water cisterns, 18, 43

----, water closets, 45

----, water pipes, 19, 44

----, waterproofing walls, 8

----, water purification, 24

----, water supply, 12

Dysentery, 806

Dyspepsia, 812

Eagle Bottom Grate, 223

Ear complaints, 808

Earth closets, 48

Earthenware cooking vessels, 239

---- cream jars condemned, 156

Earthquake countries, building in, 10

Earwigs, destroying, 558

Eating cheese, 634

---- dessert, 635

---- entrées, 633

---- fish, 633

---- fruit, 635

---- game, 633

---- ices, 635

---- poultry, 633

---- salad, 635

---- savouries, 634

---- soup, 633

---- vegetables, 634

Echoes, reducing, 8

Eclat grate, 70

Economising kitchen heat, 76

Eczema, 823

Eels, 278, 568, 571, 573, 578, 580

----, broiled, 278

----, collared, 279

----, fricassée, 279

----, fried, 279

----, galantine, 279

----, matelote, 279

----, patties, 487

----, pie, 279

----, roast, 279

----, stewed, 279

Egg balls, 267

----, boiling, 241

---- bread, 452

---- dishes, 450

---- dumplings, 490

---- flip, 196

---- lemonade, 774

---- nogg, 454

---- pie, 482

---- purée, 457

---- rolls, 457

---- salad, 384

---- sauce, 466

---- snow, 458

---- ---- pudding, 405

Egg-plant fruit, 375

Eggs à la bonne femme, 450

---- à la maître d’hôtel, 450

---- à la Tartuffe, 450

---- and artichokes, 450

---- ---- caviar, 450

---- ---- mushrooms, 451

---- ---- olives, 451

---- ---- sorrel, 451

---- ---- tomatoes, 451

---- as food, 600

---- au gratin, 451

----, baked, 452

----, buttered, 452

----, choosing, 572

----, curried, 452

----, devilled, 453

---- en matelote, 453

----, forced, 453

----, formation of, 920

----, fried, 453

---- in cases, 454

----, keeping, 113, 118

----, laying, 921

----, omelets, 454

----, packing, 924

----, poached, 457

----, savoury, 458

----, scalloped, 458

----, Scotch, 458

----, scrambled, 458

----, setting, 921

----, stewed, 459

----, stuffed, 459

---- sur plat, 459

----, Swiss, 459

----, testing, 922

Egyptian pudding, 405

Eingemacht melonen, 120

Elder chutney, 133

---- ketchup, 134

Elderberry wine, 197

Elder-flower wine, 197

Electric bell, circuit closer, 103

---- ---- making, 106

---- ---- wire, 102

---- bells, 102

---- coil, 765

---- lighting, 93

---- ----, accumulators, 94

---- ----, arrangement, 93

---- ----, bichromate pile, 93

---- ----, cut-outs, 95

---- ----, globes, 95

---- ----, lamps, 94

---- ----, switches, 95

---- motors, 953

Electro-magnet for bell, 106

Elixir vitæ cordial, 185

Ellis’s cabinet Turkish bath, 832

Elva, 512

Emerald green poisoning, 793

Emergencies, 780

Empress rice, 429

Enamelled saucepans, 238

Endive, 565, 570, 572, 582

---- salad, 384

Enemas, 764

Enemata, 764

English butter inferior, 157

---- rarebit, 449

Entrées, eating, 633

Epicurean sauce, 467

Epsom salts, 778

Eruptions, febrile, 813

Erysipelas, 813

Escaping from fire, 109

Essence bitters, 181

---- of bark, 778

---- ---- camphor, 778

---- ---- cedrat, 178

---- ---- ginger, 778

---- ---- lemons, 178

---- ---- orange, 178

---- ---- peppermint, 778

---- ---- raspberry, 179

---- ---- strawberry, 179

Essences for aerated waters, 178

Essential oil of almonds poisoning, 792

Etena zarvatte, 512

Ether poisoning, 792

Etiquette of dining, 633

---- ---- drawing room, 648

---- ---- luncheons, 641

---- ---- teas, 642

Etna cement, 233

Eton pudding, 405

Eureka gas cooker, 235

---- oil stove, 79

Evening milk, 156

Evils of brick drains, 52

Excluding draughts, 56

Excreta, disinfecting, 817

Excuses, making, 651

Executions by axe or guillotine, 683

Exercise, aim of, 870

---- and feeding, 602

----, regulation of, 871

Exercising infants, 748

Expectorants for coughs, 802

Explosions of lamps, 84

Extinguishing fire, 109

Extract Bishop cordial, 185

---- punch cordial, 186

Eye complaints, 808

Face paints, 654

Fainting, 790

Fairy butter, 467

Falkland pudding, 405

Fancy breads, 210

---- dresses, 728

Farls, 215

Farmyard, 907

----, books, 929

Fat, keeping, 112

---- rascals, 405

Fattening, 602

Faubonne soup, 267

Faults in drains, 54

Feather beds, 701

Feathers, 98

---- cleaning, 522

February gardening, 931

---- markets, 565

Feeding, 583

----, artificial, 598

---- bottles, 751

---- children, 750

---- patients, 768

Feeding the weak, 597

Feet, cold, 798

Felt roof, 6

Fenders, cleaning, 523

Fennel sauce, 467

Fermentation of fruit syrups, preventing, 175

Fermenting wine, 190

Ferments in cheese, 161

Fevers, 813

Fig pudding, 405

Figs, 574

----, keeping, 118

----, preserved, 142

Filbert biscuits, 213

Filter, pail, 26

Filtering cisterns, 33

---- tank for rain-water, 16

---- ventilators, 57

---- water, 16, 23

Filters, animal charcoal, 21, 27

----, carbo-calcis, 29

----, care of, 24

----, charcoal, 27

----, construction of, 26

----, gravel and sand, 26

----, iron, 30

----, magnetic carbide, 29

----, manganese-charcoal, 29

----, neglect of, 24

----, objects of, 25

----, porous pottery, 32

----, silicated carbon, 28

----, spongy iron, 24, 30

----, wood charcoal, 23, 27

Filtration, objects of, 25

Fine drawing, 895

---- herbs sauce, 467

Finger glasses, 635

Finings for beer, 180

Fire accidents, 111

----, causes of, 108

----, checking, 109

----, detection, 109

----, escaping from, 109

----, extinguishing, 109

---- for ventilation, 55

---- in sick room, 755

---- insurance, 962

---- lighting, 64

----, saving life at, 110

---- scenes, 659

Firearms, cleaning, 523

Fire-bricks, 232

Fireproof cement, 232

Fireproofing garments, 111

Fish, 268

----, as food, 599

----, baking, 268

----, boiling, 268

----, broiling, 268

----, boudin, 269

----, bouillabaisse, 269

----, buying, 565, 566, 567, 569, 570 571, 573, 575, 578, 580, 582

---- cakes, 269

----, carving, 620

----, chowder, 270

---- croquettes, 270

---- curry, 270

---- cutlets, 270

----, dressing, 263

----, eating, 633

----, fried, 505

----, frying, 268

---- jelly, 270

----, keeping, 113

---- moolie, 270, 499

---- omelet, 270

---- patties, 271

----, pickled, 503

---- pilau, 500

---- pudding, 271

----, pulled, 271

---- quenelles, 271

---- roe sauce, 482

---- salad, 271, 384

---- sauce, 467

----, smoking, 124

---- stewed with egg and lemon sauce, 505

----, stewing, 269

---- stock, 246

---- toast, 271

Fisherwoman of Zuider Zee dress, 723

Fits, 790

Fixtures, law of, 957

Flag floors, 7

Flamande sauce, 484

Flannel patch, 892

---- strengthening patch, 892

Flannels, cleaning, 549

Flap-trap in drains, 54

Flat flame gas burners, 87

Flats, pipes from, 49

Flavours, 478

Fleas, destroying, 558

Flemish costume, 742

---- soup, 254

Fletcher’s gas cooker, 236

Flickering gas, 85

Flies, destroying, 558

Floating bodies, experiments with, 673

Flock-paper, 97

Floods, precautions after, 54

----, wells contaminated by, 55

Floor, bedroom, 101, 699

---- coverings, 96

----, dairy, 154

----, nursery, 746

Floorcloth, 97

----, cleaning, 524

----, washing, 97

Floors, 96

----, cleaning, 527

----, concrete, 7

----, dancing, 651

----, flag, 7

---- of dwellings, 7

----, stained, 96

----, stopping chinks in, 56

---- tile, 7

----, varnished wood, 7

----, varnishing, 96

----, wood, 7

Flounder, 279

----, water souchet, 280

Flounders, buying, 565, 566, 569, 570, 571, 573

----, carving, 621

Flour, buying, 566

----, composition, 593

---- for bread, 208

---- gruel, 769

----, keeping, 114

Flower garden, 930

Flowers in bedroom, 700

Flues, 79

----, cleaning, 224

Flummery, 405, 427, 490

Flushing w.c.’s, 48

Fly, 514

Fly-paper poisoning, 793

Foam sauce, 472

Folding serviettes, 617

Fomentations, 763

Food, flesh-forming, 587

----, function, 586

----, heat-producing, 587

----, quality needed, 583

----, quantity needed, 583

Foods, animal, 591

----, curing, 123

----, digestibility, 589

----, grain, 592

----, infants’, 751

----, keeping fresh, 112

----, nutritive values, 588

----, sickroom, 768

----, smoking, 123

----, testing, 519

----, vegetable, 591

Fool’s parsley poisoning, 792

Football, 875

Fop dress, 735

Forced eggs, 453

Forcemeat, 468

---- balls, 259

---- for turkey, 368

Force-pump, 22

Foreign cheeses, 165

---- dishes, 481

---- nursemaids, 754

---- outfits, 722

---- school clothes, 717

---- schools, 868

Fou-fou soup, 514

Foul air from drains, 52

Foundation of dwellings, 4

Four-fruit ratafia, 186

Fowl, 347

----, boiled, 347

----, boning, 349, 350

----, braised drumsticks, 347

----, carving, 628

----, chaudfroid, 347

----, cold, 348

----, country captain, 348

----, curried, 348

---- cutlets, 348

----, devilled, 349

----, fillets, 349

----, fricassée, 349

----, galantine, 350

----, grilled legs, 351

----, old hen, 351

----, panada, 352

---- pilau, 501

----, poos-pass, 352

----, roast, 352

---- salad, 352

---- soufflé, 353

----, stewed, 353

----, stuffed, 511

----, timballe, 353

----, vol au vent, 353

Fowls, breeds, 919

----, buying, 565, 566, 569, 570, 571, 573, 578, 580, 581

----, chickens, 923

----, fatting, 923

----, formation of egg, 920

----, house, 919

----, incubators, 922

----, laying, 921

----, packing eggs, 924

----, setting eggs, 921

----, sitting, 922

----, testing eggs, 922

Foxglove poisoning, 792

Frames, cleaning, 545

France, cheese-making in, 163

Franchise, 962

Freezing-machines, 440

---- -powders, 440

French bean salad, 384

---- beans, 375, 569, 573, 574

---- ----, keeping, 114, 118

---- cognac bitters, 181

---- Farmer’s wife dress, 745

---- lady of Henry I. dress, 742

---- pie, 406

---- plums, 582

---- rolls, 213

---- soup, 254

Fresh air, 55

---- ----, warming, 77

Freshening air of rooms, 56

Friar’s balsam, 778

Fricadel, 490

Friesland dress, 735

Frieze, 99

Frijoles, 406

Frizzled beef, 311

Frostbite, 791

Frost in pipes, 846

Frothed milk soup, 491

---- wine soup, 491

Frozen meat, cooking, 306

---- water pipes, 846

Fruit, bottling, 138

----, buying, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 572, 573, 576, 579, 582

---- compote, 406

---- creams, 406

----, eating, 635

---- for jam, 572

---- ---- wine, 190

---- in jelly, 406

----, keeping, 114, 115

---- macédoine, 406

---- pilau, 501

---- pudding, 407

---- store, 115

---- syrups, preventing fermentation, 175

---- tart, 407

---- trifle, 407

Fruits, 591

Frying, 242

---- basket, 239, 243

---- batter, 407

---- fish, 268

---- pans, 239

Fuel, chalk, 82

----, cheap, 82

----, clay, 82

---- economisers, 63

----, economising, 82

---- for kitcheners, 226

---- ---- smoke-curing, 125

----, hints on, 82

Function of food, 586

Fur, cleaning, 528

----, joining, 893

Furnace, hot-air, 75

Furniture, 95

----, bedroom, 98, 101

----, boudoir, 98

----, chairs, 97

----, choosing, 97

----, cleaning, 528

----, dining-room, 98

----, disinfecting, 819

----, healthy, 97

----, landings, 98

----, morning room, 98

----, nursery, 101, 746

----, ottoman, 98

----, plush velvet, 93

---- polish poisoning, 793

----, second-hand, 97

----, sickroom, 755

----, sideboards, 98

----, sofas, 98

----, tables, 97

----, Utrecht velvet, 98

Galoni, 503

Galton grate, 67

---- ---- back, 65

Galvanic coil, 765

Galvanised iron cisterns, 19, 44

---- ---- water pipes, 19

Game aspic, 344

---- boudin, 345

----, buying, 565, 566, 568, 569, 571, 573, 574, 575, 578, 580, 581

----, carving, 630

---- chaudfroid, 345

----, cooking, 344

---- croquettes, 345

---- croustades, 345

----, eating, 633

----, hanging, 344

----, keeping, 113

---- kromeskies, 345

---- pie, 346

---- salad, 384

---- sauce, 345

---- soup, 254

---- vol au vent, 346

Games, indoor, 686

----, outdoor, 872

Garden, 930

----, books, 935

Gardeners’ calendar, 930

Garibaldi cream, 408

Garters, 711

Gas as a ventilator, 87, 90

---- burners, argand, 87

---- ----, bad, 85, 87

---- ----, capacity of, 86, 87

---- ----, flat flame, 87

---- ----, kinds of, 85, 87

---- ----, number needed, 85, 87

---- burning, ventilator essential, 85

----, ceilings blackened by, 85

---- chandeliers, cleaning, 533

---- cooking, 235

---- engines, 947

---- fires, burners, 78

---- fittings, 85

---- flames, Howorth’s blade for, 89

---- ----, Spencer corona for, 90

---- ---- flickering, 85

----, flow of, 85

----, globe light, 90

---- globes, 86

---- governors, 88

----, heating by, 77

---- hot-air stove, 78

----, illuminating power of, 85

----, incandescent, 90, 91

----, law of, 958

---- leaks, finding, 92

---- lighting, 85

---- ---- methods, 90

---- lights, clustering, 86

---- making apparatus, 93

---- oven, 208

---- pendants, 86

---- pipes, 85

---- ----, siphon in, 85

---- ----, testing, 92

---- ----, water in, 85

----, regenerative, 90

----, regulating, 88

---- ---- burners, 89

----, sun burner, 90

----, turning out, 85

---- wall brackets, 86

----, warming by, 77

Gascony butter, 468

Gaspacho, 511

Geese, buying, 565, 566, 568, 569, 571, 573, 575, 578, 580, 581

----, keeping, 926

----, smoked, 130

Gem cooking range, 229

Génoise pastry, 408

Gentlemen of Henry VI. dress, 742

German darn, 898

---- dishes, 489

---- stoves, 74

---- yeast, 208

Germs in water, 23

Geyser, 78

Gherkin sauce, 468

Gherkins, pickled, 133

Ghezon, 513

Ghost of China, 684

Ghosts, 676

Giblet soup, 254

Gill stoves, 73

Gilt mirrors, 93

---- mountings, cleaning, 538

Gin sling, 198

Ginger ale, 171

---- beer, 171, 197

---- ---- knot, 170

---- brandy, 186, 198

---- cake, 213

---- champagne, 172

---- cordial, 186

---- cream, 408

---- flavour, 479

---- ice cream, 443

----, preserved, 142

---- pudding, 408

---- syrup, 176

---- wine, 198

Gingerade, 171

Gingerbread pudding, 408

----, Queen’s, 217

----, spice, 219

----, thick, 219

Gipsy’s Promise, 680

Glass articles, cleaning, 529

---- globes, cleaning, 530

---- ---- for gas, 86

---- lined water pipes, 20

---- louvres for ventilating, 56

----, removing grease from, 531

----, ---- paint from, 531

---- slides, cleaning, 531

Glaze, turkey, 367

Glazed stoneware sinks, 45

---- tiles in passage, 96

Glazes, 468

Glazing pressed beef, 313

Globe light, 90

Globes, electric, 95

---- for gas, 86

Gloucester cheese, 165

Gloves, 713

----, cleaning, 532

Glow-wine cordial, 185

Glycerine, 778

Gnats, 559

Gniocchi of semolina, 503

---- soup, 255

Godfrey’s cordial poisoning, 793

Godwit, 566

Gold, cleaning, 538

---- cordial, 186

Golden plover, buying, 565, 566, 568

Goose, 353

----, carving, 630

---- liver patty, 353

---- pie, 354

----, roast, 353

Gooseberries, 572, 574

----, bottled, 142

----, bottling, 138

----, keeping, 119

Gooseberry cheese, 408

---- chutney, 133

---- cordial, 189

---- cream, 409

---- flavour, 479

---- fool, 409

---- jam, 137, 143

---- jelly, 143

---- pancakes, 409

---- pudding, 409

---- tart, 409

---- wine, 199

Gorgonzola cheese, 166

Goslings, 568, 569, 570, 571

Goulard’s extract, 778

Governor’s sauce, 468

Grafting, 900

Grain foods, 592

Grape flavour, 479

---- jam, 142

---- jelly, 143

---- leaves, pickled, 133

---- syrup, 176

Grapes, 565, 568, 569, 574, 579, 582

---- keeping, 116, 119

----, pickled, 133

Grass matting, 97

Grasse nuts, 506

Grates, open, 61, 65

----, principles, 61

----, rules for, 62

----, underfed, 71

----, varieties, 61

Gratings for rain-water pipes, 18

Gravel filters, 26

Gravies, 460

Gravy, 468

----, colouring, 469

---- for turkey, 368

---- soup, 255

---- stock, 246

Grayling, 280

----, stewed, 280

Grease in drains, removing, 50

----, removing from glass, 531

---- stains from carpet, 526

---- ----, removing, 553

---- traps, 39, 51

Greek dress, 742, 745

Green butter, 469

---- corn soup, 255

---- gooseberry chutney, 133

---- pea salad, 385

---- ---- soup, 255

---- peas, keeping, 119

Greenall’s steam washer, 848

Greengage soufflé, 409

---- tart, 409

---- wine, 199

Greengages, 574

Greenhouse, stove for, 72, 73

Greenroom Riot, 681

Greens, 485

Gregory’s powder, 778

Grenoble ratafia, 186

Grey mullet, 286

---- ----, boiled, 286

---- ----, broiled, 287

---- ---- in jelly, 287

---- ----, stewed, 287

---- powder, 778

Grill sauce, 469

Grilled kidneys, 322

---- legs of fowl, 351

---- mackerel, 286

---- salmon, 295

---- sardines, 297

---- trout, 302

---- turkey leg, 368

---- wild fowl, 371

Grilling, 241

---- stoves, 233

Grills, 233

Grimston regenerative gas burner, 91

Groat gruel, 410

---- pudding, 410, 491

Groceries, buying, 574, 577

Grooms, 909

Groundnut cakes, 515

Ground rice pudding, 410

Ground water, 2

Grouse, 354

----, American, 565

----, braised, 355

----, broiled, 355

----, buying, 565, 566, 574, 580

----, carving, 632

----, larded, 355

----, roast, 355

----, salmis, 354

---- soup, 255, 354

Gruels, 410, 769, 772

Grütze, 491

Gruyère cheese, 166

Guava jelly, 143

Gudgeon, 280

Guinea fowls, 566, 568, 569, 570, 573

---- ----, carving, 630

---- pigs, 356

Gulasch, 491

Gum arabic water, 775

Gumbo filet, 482

Gullies, trapped, for sinks, 50

Gurnet, 280, 569, 570

----, baked, 280

----, carving, 621

---- with caper sauce, 280

Gurney stove, 73

Gurney’s gas ventilator, 87

Gutters for rain-water, 17, 42

Gymnastics, 867

Haag’s Motor, 940

Haddock, 280

----, boiled, 280

----, broiled, 280

----, buying, 565, 566, 567, 573, 578, 580

----, carving, 621

----, dried, 280

---- in jelly, 280

Hæmorrhage, 78

Hager’s test for water, 25

Haggis, 319

Hair, care of, 707

---- complaints, 809

---- dyes, 810

---- washes, 810

Hake, 280

----, buying, 565, 573

----, roast, 280

----, stewed, 280

Half-hogshead of ale, 179

Halibut, 280

----, buying, 565, 569

Hall curtains, 98

Ham, beef, 125

----, boiled, 334

----, boned, 334

----, buying, 575

---- cake, 334

----, carving, 627

----, mutton, 128

---- omelet, 334

----, salted, 127

---- sandwiches, 334

---- steaks, 483

---- toast, 335

----, Westphalia loaves, 335

Hamburgh beef, 127

---- bitters, 181

Hand seen writing, 680

Hand-shaking, 648

Hands, cleaning, 533

----, washing, 706

Hanging poultry and game, 344

Hansen’s rennet extract, 160

Hard sauce, 472

---- water, 519

Harding’s ventilator, 57

Hare, 356, 565, 566, 568, 578, 581

----, carving, 631

----, fillets, 356

----, jugged, 356

----, roast, 357

----, salmis, 358

----, shape, 358

---- soup, 255

Hargreave’s gas regulator, 89

Haricot bean omelets, 455

---- beans, 375

---- mutton, 320

---- soup, 256

Harvest bugs, 559

Harvey sauce, 469

Hashed beef, 311

---- calf’s head, 339

---- mutton, 320

---- turbot, 304

---- veal, 340

---- venison, 370

Hasty pudding, 410

Haunch of venison, roast, 369

Haunted hut, 682

---- man, 678

Head, applying cold to, 762

Headaches, 811

Head-gear, 713

Healthy furniture, 97

Heat, causes of, 61

----, conserving in rooms, 60

----, economising kitchen, 76

---- lost by windows, 60

Heating, see Warming

Hemlock poisoning, 792

Hen, old, 351

Henbane poisoning, 792

Heran’s gas regulator burner, 89

Herb soup, 256

Herring, 580

----, carving, 621

---- salad, 487

----, soup, 256

Herrings, 281

----, buying, 565, 566, 569, 570, 573, 576

----, fried, 281

----, rolled, 281

----, salted, 127

----, smoking, 124

Hickory nut flavour, 479

High ground for dwellings, 1

---- pressure water heating, 81

---- teas, 645

Hinks’s safety lamp, 84

Hints on fuel, 82

Hip jam, 144

---- marmalade, 144

Hips in sugar, 144

---- in vinegar, 144

----, pickled, 144

----, preserved, 144

Hiring horses, 912

Hochepot soup, 260

Hockey, 876

Holed soil pipes, 38

Hollands’ underfed grate, 71

Home washing, 848

Hominy, 410, 594

Honey, keeping, 119

Honigküchen, 491

Hop beer, 199

---- cordial, 186

Hopkinson’s window fastener, 108

Horehound beer, 199

Horse, 907

----, buying, 907

----, choosing, 907

----, cleaning, 910

----, driving, 911

----, hiring, 912

----, keeping, 908

----, stables, 910

Horsehair mattress, 701

Horse-power, 944

Horseradish sauce, 469

Hot-air baths, 831

---- - ---- engine, 951

---- - ---- furnace, 75

---- - ---- pipes, 76

---- baths, 830

---- cross buns, 213

---- milk, 773

---- plate ranges, 222

---- slaugh, 374

---- water circulation, 80

---- ---- cisterns, 832

---- ---- heating, 80

---- ---- in dyspepsia, 812

---- ---- pipes, 832

---- ---- ----, joining, 81

---- ---- system, 832

---- weather diet, 595

---- wine caudle, 774

Hotchpotch, 256

Houghton’s trap, 51

House, determination of tenancy, 957

---- drains, 35

---- gutters, 17

----, insanitary, law of, 955

---- letting and renting, 955

----, possession, 956

----, rent, 956

---- repairs, law, 956

Housekeeping, 563

Household law, 955

Housemaid’s sink, 45

Housewife’s room, 518

Howorth’s blade for gas flames, 89

Huile de Venus cordial, 186

Hulett’s gas regulator, 89

Hullvah, 499

Hung beef, 311

Hungarian beef, 128

Hunter’s soup, 256

Hydraulic engines, 939

---- rams, 939

Hydrochloric acid poisoning, 793

Hydro-extractor, 854

---- - ---- for skimming milk, 156

Hypnotics, 704

Ice, cake, 442

----, choosing, 440

---- houses, 114

----, keeping, 114, 440

---- puddings, 387, 411

---- soufflé, 411

Ices, 440

----, colouring, 441

----, eating, 635

----, flavouring, 441

----, freezing, 440

----, moulding, 441

----, serving, 644

----, syrup, 441

Ill-drained house, 36

Illness of infants, 753

---- ---- servants, 960

Illuminating power of gas, 85

Illusions and tricks, 664

Imitation koumiss, 776

Imperceptible darn, 897

Imperial pop, 199

---- soup, 256

---- syrup, 177

Impure air, testing, 55

Incandescent asbestos stoves, 77

---- gas, 90, 91

Incubators, 922

Indian dhurries, 98

---- dishes, 495

---- matting, 97

---- outfit, 724

---- toffee, 499

Indigestion, 812

---- and cold drinks, 603

---- caused by tea, 605

Indoor games, 686

Infants, airing, 748

----, carrying, 749

---- clothing, 746

---- diet, 596

---- disorders, 753

----, exercising, 748

----, feeding, 750

---- feeding-bottles, 751

---- foods, 751

----, moral training, 753

---- rooms, 746

---- sleep, 749

---- teething, 752

----, washing, 748

----, weaning, 750

Infection, how conveyed, 814

Infectious diseases, 813

Ingle nook grate, 68

Injections, 764

Injured persons, carrying, 787

Ink stains, removing, 554

Insanitary house, law of, 955

Insect bites, 780

---- powder, 557

Insects, destroying, 556

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