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Chapter I: E. B. C.: ‘The Stable.’ London, 5s (4)

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---- eating corks, preventing, 171

Inspection chambers in drains, 54

---- of drains by vestry, 54

Insurance, 962

Intermediate clothing, 710

Invalids’ bed-making, 758

---- pulley, 760

Invitations, answering, 650

Iodine poisoning, 793

Ipecacuanha powder, 778

---- wine, 778

Irish moss water, 776

---- stew, 307, 321

Iron cisterns, 19

----, cleaning, 538

---- filters, 30

---- flue ranges, 221

---- saucepans, 237

---- water pipes, 19

Ironing, 548

---- machine, 856

---- stove, 859

Irritant poisons, 793

Isolating infectious cases, 815

Italian bread, 214

---- dishes, 503

---- dress, 728, 742

---- soup, 257

Itching, 824

Ivory, cleaning, 533

Jacob’s ladder, 900

Jeffrey’s grate, 65

Jalapine, 778

Jal-frizi, 499

Jam pudding, 411

---- roll, 412

---- sauce, 469

---- tartlets, 412

Jamaica jelly, 411

Jams, 137

----, apple, 139

----, blackberry, 137, 139

----, black currant, 137

----, carrot, 140

----, cherry, 137, 141

----, crab-apple, 141

----, gooseberry, 137, 143

----, grape, 143

----, hip, 144

----, keeping, 137

----, mulberry, 146

----, peach, 148

----, pineapple, 148

----, plum, 149

----, pumpkin, 150

----, raspberry, 137

----, red currant, 137

----, rhubarb, 151

----, quince, 150

----, strawberry, 137, 152

Jane Seymour coil, 735

January gardening, 930

---- markets, 563

Jellies, 137, 769

----, apple, 139

----, blackberry, 140

----, black currant, 140

----, crab-apple, 141

----, gooseberry, 143

----, grape, 143

----, guava, 143

----, medlar, 145

----, mulberry, 146

----, orange, 146

----, pear, 148

----, pineapple, 148

----, prune, 149

----, quince, 150

----, raspberry, 151

----, red currant, 151

----, rhubarb, 151

----, rowan, 152

----, strawberry, 152

Jelly baskets, 412

----, fish, 270

---- pie, 412

Jennings and Hinde’s iron filters, 32

Jennings’s closets, 48

Jersey wonders, 412

Jerusalem artichoke salad, 383

---- ---- soup, 261

---- artichokes, 376, 565

Jewish dishes, 504

---- dress, 731

John Dory, 281, 573, 576, 578

---- ----, carving, 621

---- ----, stuffed, 281

---- ---- with caper sauce, 281

Johnny cake, 486

Joining, 892

---- cast-iron drains, 54

---- hot-water pipes, 81

Joints as food, 599

Joints, bad, in drains, 40

---- in drains, 40, 52

---- in soil pipes, 49

Jubilee dance, 653

Judge dress, 735

Juditha, 505

Jugged hare, 356

Julienne soup, 257

July gardening, 93

---- markets, 572

Jumbles, 388, 412

June gardening, 933

---- markets, 570

Juniper ratafia, 186

Junket, 155

Juries, 961

Kabaps, 512

Kabrac dolmassi, 512

Kamptulicon, 97

Kedgeree, 429, 500

Keeping apples, 114, 115, 116

---- apricots, 121

---- artichokes, 117

---- asparagus, 117

---- boiled potatoes, 113

---- bread, 113

---- butter, 113

---- cabbage, 114

---- cheese, 113

---- cherries, 117

---- currants, 117, 119

---- eggs, 113, 118

---- fat, 112

---- figs, 118

---- filberts, 118

---- fish, 113

---- flour, 114

---- foods fresh, 112

---- French beans, 114, 118

---- fruit, 114, 115

---- game, 113

---- gooseberries, 119

---- grapes, 116, 119

---- green peas, 119

---- honey, 119

---- ice, 114, 440

---- jams, 137

---- lemon juice, 120

---- lemons, 114, 120

---- macaroni, 114

---- meal, 114

---- meat, 112

---- melons, 120

---- milk, 113

---- mushrooms, 120

---- nectarines, 121

---- onions, 115

---- oranges, 114

---- peaches, 121

---- pears, 114, 115, 116

---- peas, 119

---- pineapples, 121

---- plums, 121

---- poultry, 113

---- roots, 113, 122

---- rowan berries, 122

---- sago, 114

---- semolina, 114

---- soup, 113

---- ---- bones, 112

---- spinach, 113

---- suet, 112

---- syrups, 175

---- tomatoes, 122

---- truffles, 122

---- vegetable marrows, 114, 122

---- vegetables, 113

---- walnuts, 123

Keg filter, 34

Kensington grate, 70

Ketchup, 134

----, time for making, 573

Khabob Hoossainee, 500

Khabobs, 500

Kid gloves, cleaning, 532

Kidderminster carpets, 97

Kidney, beef, 311

---- soup, 257

---- toast, 322

Kidneys, 321

---- à la maître d’hôtel, 321

----, devilled, 321

----, fried, 321

----, grilled, 322

----, stewed, 322

King Henry’s shoestrings, 413

Kinnear’s gas regulator burner, 89

Kippered salmon, 129

Kippers, 128

Kirschwasser cordial, 186

Kitchen, aspect for, 3

----, basting, 241

---- boilers, 832

----, boiling, 241

----, braising, 242

----, cooking in ovens, 224

---- fire economiser, 64

---- fittings, 221

----, frying, 242

----, ---- -basket, 239

----, ---- -pans, 239

----, grilling, 241

---- heat, economising, 76

----, literature, 517

---- odours, 243

----, oven-roasting, 224

----, pans, 237

----, pots, 237

---- ranges, 221

---- ----, Arnott’s ventilator for, 226

---- ----, baking ovens, 222

---- ----, blowers, 222

---- ----, brick-flue, 221

---- ----, Brown and Green’s, 228

---- ----, cleaning flues, 224

---- ----, close-fire, 222

---- ----, dampers, 224

---- ----, Dow’s, 230

---- ----, Eagle, 227

---- ----, Eagle grill, 233

---- ----, Eureka, 235

---- ----, fire-bricks, 232

---- ----, fireproof cement, 232

---- ----, Fletcher’s, 236

---- ----, fuels for, 226

---- ----, gas, 235

---- ----, gem, 229

---- ----, grilling, 233

---- ----, hot-plate, 222

---- ----, iron-flue, 221

---- ----, Leamington, 222, 228

---- ----, management, 225

---- ----, Metropolitan, 236

---- ----, Mistress, 231

---- ----, Nonpareil, 236

---- ----, oil, 237

---- ----, open-fire, 222

---- ----, oven ventilators, 224

---- ----, Rippingille’s, 237

---- ----, setting, 221

---- ----, Sine qua non, 230

---- ----, steam, 233

---- ----, steam boiler, 234

---- ----, Thorncliffe, 228

---- ----, Treasure, 229

---- ----, want of draught in, 225

---- ----, water-pans, 224

---- ----, Wilson, 229

---- ----, Yorkshire, 231

----, roasting, 240

----, saucepans, 237

---- sink, 50

---- soups, 244

----, stewing, 242

---- walls, 96

---- waste, 49

----, water-bath, 242

Kitcheners, 222

Kneading bread, 209

Knee-breeches, 711

Knödeln, 491

Knotting corks down, 170

Köche, 491

Koch’s gelatine-peptone test water, 25

Koumiss, imitation, 776

Kourabiedes, 512

Krapfen, 489

Kräplen, 492

Krausen-beer, 179

Kufté, 512

Kümmel cordial, 186

Laburnum poisoning, 792

Lace, cleaning, 551

---- patch, 897

Laced joining, 894

Lacrosse, 877

Ladies’ leggings, 713

Lady Doran Strathspey dance, 653

---- of Henry VI. dress, 735

---- ---- James I. dress, 742

---- ---- Tangiers dress, 735

Lamb, 567, 569, 570, 573

----, carving, 625

---- cutlets, 319

---- pie, 322

----, roast quarter, 326

----, saddle, 326

Lambs’ tails, 322

Lamperns, 281

----, stewed, 281

Lamprey, 282

----, baked, 282

Lamps, Carcel, 83

----, cruisie, 83

----, duplex safety, 84

----, electric, 94

----, explosions of, 84

----, mineral oil, 84

----, moderator, 83

----, oil, 83

---- ----, pressure, 83

---- ----, suction, 83

----, petroleum, 84

----, safety, for houses, 84

----, Silber, 83

---- spirit, 83

Landings, 98

Landrail, carving, 631

Larded grouse, 355

---- pike, 292

Larder, 112

----, aspect for, 3

----, shelves, 96

Lark pie, 359

Larks, 358, 565, 566, 581

----, baked, 360

----, broiled, 358

----, croustade, 358

---- in cases, 358

----, potted, 359

----, roast, 359

----, stewed, 359

----, stuffed, 360

----, vol au vent, 360

Laudanum, 779

Laundry, 848

Laurel water poisoning, 792

Laver, 376

Law, domestic, 955

---- of breakages, 961

---- ---- character, 960

---- ---- determination of tenancy, 957

---- ---- dilapidations, 957

---- ---- distress, 956

---- ---- fixtures, 957

---- ---- franchise, 962

---- ---- gas, 958

---- ---- insanitary house, 955

---- ---- insurance, 962

---- ---- juries, 961

---- ---- nuisance, 962

---- ---- parochial matters, 960

---- ---- possession, 956

---- ---- rates and taxes, 957

---- ---- rent, 956

---- ---- renting and letting house, 955

---- ---- repairs, 956

---- ---- servants, 959

---- ---- the house, 955

---- ---- wages, 959

---- ---- water, 958

Lawn, 930

---- bowls, 879

---- party refreshments, 647

---- skittles, 879

---- sleeve (drink), 199

---- tennis courts, 879

---- ---- dress, 722

Laying eggs, 921

---- table, 607

Lead dissolved by rain-water, 17

---- -encased block-tin pipes, 20

---- poisoning, 793

Leaded joints for iron pipes, 54

Leaden cisterns, 19, 44

---- pipes eaten by rats, 53

---- sinks, 45

---- soil pipes, 38

---- suction pipes, 21

---- water pipes, 19

Leaks of gas, finding, 92

Leamington range, 222, 228

Leather, cleaning, 534

Lebkuchen, 492

Leche crema, 413

Leclanché battery, 102

Leeches, 763

Leek soup, 257

Leeks, 565, 582

---- with oil, 513

Leg of mutton, 323

---- ---- ----, boiled, 323

---- ---- ----, braised, 323

---- ---- ----, roast, 323

Legendary Saint’s Martyrdom, 683

Leggings, 713

Leicester cheese, 165

Lemon and parsley sauce, 488

---- beer, 200

---- biscuits, 214

---- cheese cake, 214

---- cordial, 186

---- cream, 413

---- dumplings, 413

----, essence, 178

---- flavour, 479

---- juice, 775

---- ----, keeping, 120

---- marmalade, 144

---- peel, candied, 144

----, prickled, 134

---- pudding, 413

---- sauce for fish, 483

---- shrub (drink), 200

---- soufflé, 413

---- sponge, 413

---- syrup, 177

---- toast, 413

---- water ice, 443

---- whey, 200

Lemonade, 172, 199

----, still, 205

----, tonic, 173

Lemons, 574

----, keeping, 114, 120

Lenten dinners, 639

Lentil pudding, 414

---- soup, 257

Lentils, 376

Leoni’s gas cooker, 236

Letter-writing, 649

Letting a house, 955

Lettuce, 565, 570, 572

---- salad, 385

---- soup, 258

Levantine dishes, 505

Leveret, 573

Library, 903

----, aspect for, 3

Liebig’s beef tea, 258

Life, saving, at fires, 110

Lift and force pump, 22

Lift pump, 20

Light in sickroom, 756

Lighting, 82

----, albo-carbon lamp, 92

----, candles, 83

----, candlestick, 83

----, curing steam on windows, 83

----, daylight, 82

----, ---- reflectors, 83

----, electric, 93

----, finding gas leaks, 92

---- fires, 64

----, gas, 85

----, ---- regulators, 88

----, globe light, 90

----, incandescent gas burners, 91

----, luminous paints, 83

----, matches, 93

----, nightlights, 83

----, oil lamps, 83

----, phosphorus, 93

----, regenerative gas burners, 91

----, silver torch, 83

----, sun burner, 90

----, testing gas pipes, 92

----, window area, 82

Lightning stroke, 791

Lime in eyes, 808

Lime-juice cordial, 186

Lime-water, 779

Limes, preserved, 145

Linen, cleaning, 547

Ling, 282, 565, 573, 580

Linoleum, 97

Linseed poultice, 761

---- tea, 200, 775

Liqueurs, 181

----, drinking, 635

Liquodilla cordial, 186

Liquorice powder, 779

Little Grannie’s dress, 731

Liver sauce, 470

---- soup, 258

Lobster, 282

---- à la St. Malo, 282

---- à l’enfant prodigue, 282

---- au gratin, 282

----, boiled, 283

----, broiled, 283

----, buttered, 283

----, buying, 565, 567, 570, 571, 580

---- cream, 283

---- croquettes, 283

---- croustades, 283

---- curry, 284

---- cutlets, 284

---- kromeskies, 284

---- omelet, 284

----, roast, 283

---- salad, 284, 385

---- sandwiches, 284

---- sauce, 470

---- soufflé, 284

---- soup, 258

----, stewed, 285

Loin of mutton, 323

---- ---- ----, braised, 323

---- ---- ----, carving, 625

---- ---- ----, stewed, 323

---- ---- veal, 337

Lokma, 512

London argand burner, 91

Lord Mayor’s cake, 214

Loss of voice, 803

Lovage cordial, 186

Lovelock’s mincing machine, 599

Loving cup, 200

Low ground for dwellings, 1

Luminous paints, 83

Lunch cake, 214

Luncheons, 641

----, laying, 610

Macalpine washer, 851

Macaroni au gratin, 414

----, boiled, 414

---- cheese, 414

----, keeping, 114

---- omelet, 455

---- pie, 414

---- pudding, 414

---- soufflé, 414

---- soup, 258

---- timbale, 415

---- with tomato sauce, 415

Macaroons, 214

Macedonian dress, 742

Mackerel, 285, 485, 566, 568, 569, 570, 573

----, baked, 285

----, boiled, 285

----, broiled, 285

----, carving, 621

----, devilled, 286

---- fillets, 286

---- fricassée, 286

----, grilled, 286

---- roes, 286

----, salted, 128

----, smoking, 124

Made ground, 2

Madeira cake, 214

Magnetic carbide filter, 29

Maidservant of Henry VI. dress, 742

Maignen’s filters, 29

Main drains, 51

Maître d’hôtel butter, 470

Maize meal, 594

Making beds, 702

---- electric bell, 106

Making up, 654

Malagatani soup, 500

Malay chicken, 500

Malliorca d’Espagne cordial, 186

Malt liquors as drinks, 606

----, weevil in, 180

Malvern pudding, 145

Manchester grate, 66

---- pudding, 416

Mandarin delight cordial, 186

Manganese-charcoal filter, 29

Mango chutney, 132

Mangold-wurzel beer, 200

Manholes in drains, 52

Maple syrup, 177

Maraschino jelly, 416

---- liqueur, 187

Marble, cleaning, 535

March gardening, 931

---- markets, 567

Margot pudding, 416

Marien cakes, 492

Marigold wine, 200

Marketing, 563

Marlborough pudding, 416

---- tart, 416

Marmalade, apple, 139

----, hip, 144

----, lemon, 144

----, orange, 146

---- pudding, 416

----, quince, 150

----, rhubarb and orange, 152

---- sauce, 470

Marolles cheese, 166

Marsh-Greenall gas stove, 78

Marzipan, 439, 492

Mashed potatoes, 378

---- salt cod, 276

Match poison, 793

Matches, 93

----, paint defaced by, 93

----, substitute for, 93

Matso cakes, 505

---- diet bread, 505

Matting, 97

---- seams, 894

Mawbery, 515

May drink, 200

---- gardening, 932

---- markets, 569

Mead, 196, 200

Meadow saffron poisoning, 792

Meal, keeping, 114

Measles, 813

Measures for medicines, 777

Meat, 306

----, buying, 563, 565, 567, 569, 570, 572, 575, 578, 580, 581

----, carving, 622

----, frozen, cooking, 306

----, keeping, 112

---- salad, 385

----, tinned, cooking, 307

----, turned, 112

Mecklenburg dress, 739

Medical coil, making, 765

Medicines, administering, 776

----, classes of, 777

----, domestic, 777

----, doses, 777

----, keeping safely, 776

----, measures, 777

----, nursery, 753

----, removing taste of, 777

----, times for taking, 777

Medlar jelly, 145

Medlars, 565

Mellin’s extract, 752

Melon flavour, 479

Melons, 569, 574, 576, 577, 582

----, keeping, 120

----, preserved, 146

Melted butter, 470

Mental training, 865

Mercury poisoning, 793

Meringues, 417, 446

Metal gas burners, 85, 87

---- goods, cleaning, 536

Metallic roofing, 7

Metamorphoses, 682

Metropolitan gas kitchener, 236

Mezereum poisoning, 793

Micro-organisms in water, 23

Mikado moth papers, 561

Mildew stains, removing, 554

Milk as food, 600

----, condensed, 596

---- coolers, 156

----, cooling, 113

---- for bread, 208

---- for cheese, 159

----, hot, 773

----, keeping, 113

---- lemonade, 201

---- of sulphur, 779

---- pans, 154, 155, 156

---- ----, cooling, 154, 155, 156, 581

---- ----, warming, 155

---- punch, 201

---- ---- syrup, 177

----, quality, 156

----, skimming, 156

---- soup, 258

----, sour, 113

----, temperature for churning, 158

----, ---- ---- setting, 158

----, testing, 520

----, thickened, 483

---- toast, 483, 773

---- vessels, cleaning, 154, 156, 158

Mill, 692

Milliner Bewitched, 680

Milne’s gas regulator burner, 89

Mince pies, 417

Minced meats as food, 599

---- mutton, 324

---- veal, 340

Mineral oil lamps, 84

---- ---- safety lamps, 84

Minestra, 503

Minestrone soup, 257

Mint sauce, 470

Mirrors, 98

----, cleaning, 529

Miser and Money-lender, 679

Miss Lunsdam’s Fancy dance, 653

Mistress range, 231

Mixed pickles, 135

Mocha pudding, 418

Mock brawn, 312

---- pea soup, 258

---- turtle soup, 259

Moderator lamp, 83

Molasses beer, 201

Molucca balm cordial, 187

Monastery wine soup, 492

Monday marketing, 568

Monkshood, 792

Moolie, 270, 499

Moonlight scenery, 657

Moore’s ventilator, 56

Moorish dress, 735

Moral training of children, 753

Morcillas, 511

Morgiana dance in Iceland, 653

Morning milk, 156

---- room furniture, 98

Morocco leather, cleaning, 534

Morphia bimeconate, 779

Moselle cup, 201

Mosquitoes, 559

Mothering cakes, 219

Moths, 559

Motors, domestic, 936

Mottled darn, 896

Mould in cheese, 161

Mourning, 719

Mousseline pudding, 418

Muffins, 214

Mulberries, 579

Mulberry jam, 146

---- jelly, 146

---- syrup, 177

Mulled ale, 202

Mullein for coughs, 801

Mullet, boiled, 286

----, broiled, 287

----, buying, 565, 566, 573, 576, 578, 582

----, carving, 621

----, grey, 286

----, red, 287

Mulligatawny soup, 259

Muriate of ammonia, 779

Musgrave’s stove, 72

Mushroom ketchup, 134

---- poisoning, 793

Mushrooms, 376, 569, 573, 576

---- and eggs, 451

----, keeping, 120

----, pickled, 135

Mussel soup, 259

Mussels, 288

----, buying, 565, 573, 580

----, stewed, 288

Mustard, 470

---- paper, 762

---- poultice, 762

Mutton, 317

----, baked, 317

----, breast, 317

---- broth, 259, 318

----, buying, 563, 565, 567, 575

----, carving, 624

---- casseroles, 318

----, cavalier’s broil, 331

---- chops, 318

---- croquettes, 318

---- cutlets, 318

---- ----, à la maître d’hôtel, 319

---- ----, savoury, 319

---- ----, stewed, 318

---- ---- with apples and gravy, 319

----, haggis, 319

---- hams, 128

----, haricot, 320

----, hashed, 320

----, Irish stew, 321

----, kidneys, 321

---- kromeskies, 322

----, leg, 323

----, loin, 323

----, minced, 324

----, neck, 324

---- pasty, 325

---- patties, 325

---- pudding, 326

----, roast saddle, 326

---- rissoles, 326

---- sausages, 326

---- scollops, 327

----, scrag, 325

----, shoulder, 330

----, squab pie, 331

Nalym, 508

Napkins, folding, 617

Naples biscuits, 214

Narcotic poisons, 792

Nasturtiums, pickled, 135

National Kitchener, 227

Neapolitan dress, 735

Neats’ tongues, smoked, 130

Neck of mutton, 324

---- ---- ---- à la Duchesse, 324

---- ---- ----, boiled, 324

---- ---- ----, braised, 324

---- ---- ----, roast, 325

---- ---- ----, rolled, 325

Nectar, 173, 202

---- cordial, 187

---- syrup, 177

Nectarines, 569, 573, 574

----, keeping, 121

Negus, 206

Nelson’s rifle-back grate, 65

Nesselrode pudding, 418

Nestlé’s milk food, 752

Nettle beer, 202

---- wine, 202

Nettlerash, 823

Nettles, 377

Neufchatel cheese, 166

Neun-loth pudding, 493

Newcastle pudding, 418

New-milk cheese, 160

New Zealand outfit, 727

Night-caps, 809

Nightlights, 83

Nightmare, 683

Night nursery walls, 102

Nightshade poisoning, 792

Night-work diet, 596

Nitrate of silver, 779

---- ---- ---- poisoning, 793

Nitre, 779

Nitric acid, 779

---- ---- poisoning, 793

---- ---- stains on hands, 533

Nivernaise soup, 248

Noiseless crockery, 756

Nonpareil bitters, 181

---- gas cooker, 236

Norfolk chine, 128

---- dumplings, 419

Normandy, butter-making in, 158

---- dress, 731

North American outfit, 727

---- Holland dress, 735

---- Wilts cheese, 165

Northerly rooms, warming

Norton tube wells, 14

Norway dress, 739

Nouilles soup, 260

November gardening, 935

---- markets, 580

Noyeau, 187

---- ratafia, 187

Nuckodee choofta, 502

Nudels, 493

Nuisance, law of, 962

Nurse, precautions for, in infectious cases, 816

Nursemaids, 754

Nursery, 746

----, aspect for, 3

----, furnishing, 101

---- medicines, 753

---- walls, 101

---- windows, 101

Nurse’s dress, 756

---- duties, 756

Nursing infectious cases, 814

---- mothers, 750

Nut cordial, 189

Nutmeg flavour, 479

Nutritive values of foods, 588

Oatmeal, 594

---- cakes, 214

---- drink, 202

---- pie, 419

---- pudding, 419

October gardening, 935

---- markets, 578

Odours of kitchen, 243

----, removing from hands, 53

Oilcloth, 97

---- from carpet, 524

Oil cooking, 237

---- lamps, 83

---- ----, mineral, 84

---- stoves, 79

Okra, 483

---- soup, 260

Old-fashioned dances, 652

Old hen, 351

Olive sauce, 471

Olives, 377

---- and eggs, 451

Omelet, fish, 270

---- soufflé, 456

Omelets, 454

----, plain, 455

----, ---- sweet, 455

----, savoury, 456

----, sweet, 456

Omnibus pudding, 419

Onion gruel, 769

---- posset, 769

---- salad, 385

---- sauce, 471

---- soup, 260

Onions, 377, 579, 582

----, keeping, 115

----, pickled, 135

Open-fire ranges, 222

---- grates, 61, 65

---- stove, 62

Opium poisoning, 793

Opodeldoc, 779

Optical delusions, 674

Orange bitters, 181

---- brandy, 187

---- champagne, 173

---- chips, 146, 419

---- compote, 419

---- cordial, 187

---- cream, 419

---- elixir, 187

---- essence, 178

---- flavour, 479

---- flower cakes, 506

---- ---- puffs, 506

---- ---- ratafia, 187

---- fool, 419

---- fritters, 419

---- gin, 188

---- jelly, 146, 419

---- marmalade, 146

---- mould, 420

---- pudding, 420

---- puffs, 420

---- salad, 420

---- sauce, 471

---- sponge, 420

---- syrups, 177

---- tart, 420

---- tartlets, 420

---- whey, 774

---- wine, 202

Orangeade, sulphuric, 205

Oranges, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 574, 582

---- keeping, 114

----, preserved, 147

Orchard Street pudding, 420

Organisms which ripen cheese, 161

Organised matter in water, 23

Orgeat cordial, 188

---- syrup, 177

Orris flavour, 479

Ortolans, 360, 566, 571, 573, 581

----, fried, 360

---- in cases, 360

----, roast, 360

----, stewed, 361

Oswego pudding, 420

Otranto Picture, 680

Ottoman, 98

---- boxes, 100

Oucha, 508

Outdoor games, 872

Outfits, Australian, 722

---- for abroad, 722

----, Indian, 724

----, New Zealand, 727

----, North America, 727

----, West Indian, 727

Outlet for rain-water pipes, 18

Ouzum yaprac dolmassi, 512

Oven, gas, 208

---- pyrometer, 207

---- -roasting, 224

----, steam, 208

---- ventilators, 224

Ovens, 207

----, cooking in, 224

---- in ranges, 222

----, roasting in, 240

----, water-pans for, 224

Overflow pipes of cisterns, 44

Oxalic acid poisoning, 793

Ox brains, 312

---- cheek, 312

---- head, 312

---- tail soup, 260

---- tails, 313

Oxford Grace cup, 202

---- mull, 202

---- punch, 202

Oyster cream, 288

---- croustades, 288

---- cutlets, 288

---- fricassée, 289

---- fritters, 289, 769

---- kromeskies, 289

---- olives, 289

---- patties, 289

---- pie, 290

---- rissolettes, 290

---- salad, 386

---- sauce, 471

---- sausages, 290

---- soufflé, 290

---- soup, 260

---- toast, 291

Oysters, 288, 488

----, angels on horseback, 288

----, broiled, 288

----, buying, 565, 566, 569, 570, 576, 580

---- devilled, 289

---- fried, 289

---- raw, 288

---- roasted, 290

----, salting, 128

---- scalloped, 290

---- skewered, 290

---- steamed, 291

---- stewed, 291

Pachîsî, 693

Packing eggs, 924

---- room (laundry), 859

Page of Charles II. dress, 735

---- ---- Henry IV. dress, 735

Pail filter, 26

Paint brushes, cleaning, 541

----, cleaning, 540

---- defaced by matches, 93

----, luminous, 83

---- poisoning, 793

----, removing from glass, 531

---- stains removing, 555

Painted walls, 99

Painting ceilings, 99

Palestine soup, 261

Pan closets, 45

Pan dowdy, 483

Panada, chicken, 352

Pancakes, 420

----, samp, 432

----, snow, 432

Pans, kitchen, 237

Pantomime, 684

Pantry, 207

----, biscuits, 210

----, bread, 207

----, cakes, 210

----, fancy breads, 210

----, ovens, 207

----, shelves, 96

Paper, cleaning, 541

---- hangings, 99, 101

---- -stuffed pillows, 760

Paradise pudding, 421

Parchment cleaning, 542

Paregoric, 779

Parfait amour cordial, 188

Parkin, 215

Parkinson’s gas regulator, 88

---- ---- ---- burner, 89

Parlourmaid’s duties, 607

Parmesan cheese, 166

---- ---- soup, 261

Parochial matters, law of, 960

Parsley and butter, 471

---- ---- lemon sauce, 488

----, fried, 471

---- sauce, 471

Parsnip pudding, 493

---- wine, 203

Parsnips, 377, 565, 563, 582

Parson’s grate, 69

Parting cup, 203

Partridge, carving, 632

---- pie, 361

---- pudding, 362

----, roast, 362

---- salad, 362

Partridges, 361, 565, 566, 575, 580, 581

---- aux choux, 361

----, boiled, 361

----, braised, 361

----, broiled, 361

Passage walls, 96

Passover pudding, 505

Paste, dripping, 421

---- for patties, 421

----, puff, 421

Pastry, 387

---- for invalids, 772

Pasty, mutton, 325

Patching, 890, 901

Patient, disinfecting, 819

----, feeding, 768

----, temperature, 764

----, visitors, 758

Patties, fish, 271

Patty paste, 421

Paysanne soup, 267

Pea salad, 385

---- soup, 261

---- ----, mock, 258

Peach brandy, 188

---- cheese, 421

---- compote, 422

---- cordial, 189

---- cream, 422

---- flavour, 479

---- jam, 148

---- toast, 422

Peaches, 569, 573, 574, 576, 579

----, brandied, 147

----, keeping, 121

Pear flavour, 479

---- jelly, 148

---- soup, 261

---- syrup, 177

Pears, 565, 568, 569, 574, 576, 579, 582

----, keeping, 114, 115, 116

----, preserved, 148

----, stewed, 422

Peas, 377, 568, 569, 570, 572, 573

----, green, keeping, 119

Peebles’s gas regulator, 89

---- ---- ---- burner, 89

Pepper flavour, 479

---- pot, 472, 515

---- punch, 173, 515

----, testing, 521

Peppermint brandy, 188

---- cordial, 188

---- liqueur, 188

---- test for drains, 41

Pepper’s ghost, 676

Perambulators, 749

Perch, 291, 580

Perforated panes for ventilation, 56

Peripatetic pudding, 422

Persian curry, 502

Person, disinfecting, 819

Peruvian bitters, 181

Petroleum engines, 950

---- lamps, 84

---- safety lamps, 84

Phantasmagoria, 676

Pheasant, 362, 565, 566, 578, 580, 581

----, carving, 632

----, roast, 362

---- with truffles, 362

Phosphorus for safety light, 93

---- poisoning, 793

Photographic plates, cleaning, 530

Physic, taking, 776

Physical comfort in schools, 867

---- experiments, 671

---- training, 867

Piccalilli, 135

Pickled bloaters, 487

---- fish, 503

---- pork, 128

---- salmon, 129

---- sprats, 131

Pickles, mixed, 135

----, season for making, 573

----, testing, 521

Pickling, 132

---- cabbage, 132

---- chutney, 132

---- cucumbers, 133

---- gherkins, 133

---- grape leaves, 133

---- grapes, 133

---- hips, 144

---- lemon, 134

---- limes, 145

---- mushrooms, 135

---- nasturtiums, 135

---- onions, 135

---- samphire, 135

---- tomato, 136

---- vinegar, 136

---- walnuts, 137

Picture frames, cleaning, 545

Pictures, cleaning, 542

Piedmont tartlets, 422

Pigeon and beefsteak pie, 363

----, carving, 630

Pigeons, 570, 581

----, keeping, 927

Pigs, 917

----, breed, 917

----, breeding, 918

----, fatting, 918

----, feeding, 919

---- feet, 335

---- liver, 335

---- styes, 917

----, sucking-, 337

Pike, 291, 580

---- baked with sour cream, 291

----, boiled, 291

----, broiled, 292

----, carbonade, 292

----, fried, 292

---- larded, 292

----, roast, 292

---- sauce, 292

---- soup, 488

----, soused, 292

----, stewed, 292

----, stewed, with butter sauce, 488

Pikelets, 422

Pilau, 500, 513

----, fish, 500

----, fowl, 501

----, fruit, 501

Pilchards, 291, 576

Pilemaignes, 508

Pilgrim and Saint, 684

Pillows, 98, 702

Pills, taking, 777

Pimples, 822

Pinaree, 516

Pine drink, 516

Pineapple cream, 423

---- flavour, 479

---- fritters, 423

---- ice cream, 443

---- jam, 148

---- jelly, 148, 423

---- preserve, 148

---- syrup, 177

---- toast, 423

Pineapples, 569, 574, 576, 582

----, keeping, 121

Pinnated grouse, 565

Pipe drains, 52

---- ----, faults of, 53

---- ----, joining, 53

---- ----, kinds of, 53

---- smoking, 606

Pipes, coil, for heating, 81

----, discharge, 38

---- for conveying water, 19

---- ---- rain-water, 17

----, frozen, 847

----, gas, 85

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

----, hot-water, joining, 81

----, soil, 38

----, ventilation of, 38

Piquante sauce, 473

Pishpash, 502

Pistachio nuts, 582

Pitch of roof, 5

Plaice, 291, 565, 566, 569, 570, 573, 580

Plain darn, 895

Plaster, cleaning, 535

Plate glass against burglars, 108

Plate powders, 539

Plated goods, cleaning, 539

Playground, 870

Plays, arranging, 662

----, fitting the parts, 662

----, list of, 659

----, rehearsing, 663

----, selecting, 659

Playthings, 749

Plinsen, 493

Ploaré dress, 742

Plover, 363, 565, 566, 568, 580, 581

----, carving, 631

----, fillets, 363

---- on toast, 363

----, roast, 363

Plover’s eggs, 570, 581

Plum brandy, 188

---- cake, 215

---- flavour, 479

---- jam, 149

---- pudding, 423

---- ---- sauce, 472

---- purée, 424

---- sauce, 462

---- soup, 261

---- tart, 424

Plums, 576, 579

----, bottled, 148

----, bottling, 138

---- in brandy, 149

---- ---- syrup, 149

---- ---- vinegar, 149

----, keeping, 121

----, preserved, 149

Plush velvet furniture, 98

Poached eggs, 457

Poison dogwood, 793

---- ivy, 793

Poisonous bites, 781

Poisons, 791

Poivrade sauce, 473

Poker, 694

Polish bézique, 686

---- dishes, 506

---- dress, 731

---- sauce, 472

---- soup, 261

Pomeranian soup, 262

Pont l’évêque cheese, 166

Poor knights, 424

---- man’s soup, 262

Poos-pass, 352

Popcorn candy, 439

Poppy poisoning, 793

Porcelain cooking vessels, 239

Pork and beans, 483

---- ---- kidney pudding, 335

----, buying, 565, 567, 575, 578, 580

----, carving, 627

---- chops, 336

---- croquettes, 336

----, pickled, 128

---- pie, 336

----, roast, 336

---- sausages, 336

Porker’s head, salting, 129

Porous pottery filters, 32

Porridge, 215, 594

Port du Salut cheese, 167

Port wine jelly, 770

Porter jelly, 424, 770

Pot au feu, 262

---- ---- ----, beef, 313

---- pourri, 652

Potage, 242

Potash poisoning, 793

Potassium bichromate stains on hands, 533

---- oxalate poisoning, 793

Potato balls, 378

---- cakes, 378

---- cheese, 446

---- chops, 769

---- omelets, 455

---- pie, 424

---- pudding, 425

---- rissoles, 378

---- salad, 386

---- soup, 262

Potatoes, 565, 568, 570, 572, 573, 576, 578

---- à la Russe, 378

---- au gratin, 378

----, calecannon, 378

---- for bread, 208

----, fried, 378

----, keeping boiled, 113

----, mashed, 378

----, stewed, 378

---- with cream, 377

Pots, kitchen, 237

Potted beef, 125, 313

---- bloaters, 126

---- char, 126

---- cheese, 446

---- larks, 359

---- shrimps, 130

---- sprats, 131

---- trout, 132

Pottery filters, 32

Potting butter, 159

Pouf berek, 513

Poultices, 761

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

----, carving, 628

----, cooking, 344

----, eating, 633

----, hanging, 344

----, keeping, 113

---- lice, 561

---- soup, 250, 263

Pound cake, 216

Powders, taking, 777

Prassas, 513

Prawns, 292, 573

----, aspic, 292

Precautions after floods, 54

Prepared chalk, 779

Preserving barberries, 139

---- beetroot, 139

---- crab-apples, 141

---- cranberries, 142

---- cherries, 141

---- citrons, 141

---- cucumbers, 142

---- figs, 142

---- ginger, 142

---- hips, 144

---- jams and jellies, 137

---- limes, 145

---- melons, 146

---- oranges, 147

---- pears, 148

---- plums, 149

---- quinces, 150

---- strawberries, 152

---- walnuts, 153

President’s pudding, 425

Pressed beef, 313

Primrose pudding, 425

---- vinegar, 136

---- wine, 203

Prince’s pudding, 425

Printing of school-books, 863

Prints, cleaning, 543

Processes of cookery, 240

Prospect for dwelling, 2

Provençal ratafia, 188

Prune cake, 425

---- flavour, 479

---- jelly, 149

---- mould, 425

---- preserve, 150

---- sauce, 472

Prunes, stewed, 425

Prussian cake, 216

Prussic acid poisoning, 792

Ptarmigan, 581

----, carving, 633

Pudding sauce, 473

Puddings, 387

---- for invalids, 773

Puff paste, 421, 503

Pulled fish, 271

Pumpkin, 378

---- jam, 150

---- pie, 483

---- soup, 263

Pumps, 20

----, deep-well, 22

----, dimensions for, 21

----, fixing suction pipe, 21

----, lift and force, 22

----, simple lift, 20

----, suction pipe, 20

----, working capacity, 20

----, working figures, 23

Punch, 203

---- jelly, 426

----, pepper, 173

---- without liquor, 775

Punishments, 868

Purification of water, 16, 23

Purifying air, 57

Purimacos cement, 233

Purity of drinking-water, test for, 24

Purses, 503

Putting electric bell together, 107

---- out candle, 83

---- ---- gas, 85

---- ---- lamp, 84

---- up butter, 158

Pyrogallol poisoning, 793

Pyrometer, bakers’, 207

Quadrille mazurka dance, 653

Quails, 363, 571, 573, 581

---- in cases, 363

----, roast, 363

Quality of food needed, 583

Quantity of food needed, 583

Quay pudding, 397

Queen Adelaide’s pudding, 426

---- Mab’s pudding, 426

Queen’s biscuits, 217

---- cake, 217

---- drops, 217

---- gingerbread, 217

Quenelle soup, 263

Quenelles, fish, 271

Quiet in sickroom, 756

Quin sauce, 473

Quince and apple tart, 389

---- cakes, 426

---- cordial, 189

---- jam, 150

---- jelly, 150

---- marmalade, 150

---- ratafia, 188

Quinces, brandied, 150

----, preserved, 150

Quinine, taking, 777

Quinsy, 802

Quoits, 882

Quoormah, 502

Rabbit, carving, 630

---- pie, 365

---- with onion sauce, 365

Rabbits, 363, 565, 566, 571, 573, 578, 581

----, baked, 364

----, boiled, 364

----, curried, 364

----, cutlets, 364

----, fricassée, 364

----, stewed, 365

Racking off wine, 190

Racquet court, 883

Radishes, 582

Rahat lukum, 440

Railroad liqueur, 188

Railway pudding, 426

Rain machine, 656

Rainfall, 13

Rain-water, 13

----, catching, 15

---- cisterns, 15, 16

----, disposal of, 42

---- dissolves lead, 17

---- gutters, 42

---- pipes, 17

---- ----, outlet, 18

---- ----, smell from, 42

----, precautions in storing, 17

---- separator, 16

Raised pie in china mould, 426

---- waffles, 487

Raisin flavour, 480

---- pudding, 427

---- wine, 203

Raisins, 565, 582

Ramakins, 447

Rancid butter, 159

Ranges, cooking, 221

Rarebits, 449

Raspberries, 572, 574

----, bottling, 138

Raspberry and currant tartlets, 427

---- brandy, 188

---- cordial, 189

---- custard, 427

---- essence, 179

---- flavour, 480

---- jam, 137

---- jelly, 151

---- sauce, 473

---- syrup, 177

---- vinegar, 137

Rates and taxes, 957

Rat poison, antidotes, 793

Rats, 561

---- eating through leaden pipes, 53

---- in drains, 51, 53

---- not stopped by siphon traps, 53

Ravigote sauce, 473

Ravioli, 427

Raw oysters, 288

Red cabbage, 379

---- colouring for soda-water syrups, 176

---- currant cordial, 189

---- ---- jam, 137

---- ---- jelly, 151

---- herrings, 127

---- mullet, 287

---- ----, baked, 287

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

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

---- ----, stuffed, 287

---- ratafia, 189

Reed birds, 571

Reflectors, 83

Refooting, 901

Refreshments, miscellaneous, 646

Refuse foundations, 2

Regenerative gas burners, 90

Regulation of exercise, 871

Removing ring from finger, 706

---- stoppers, 562

Rennet extract, 160

---- for cheese-making, 159

Renovating, 521

Rent of house, 956

Renting a house, 955

Rep darn, 897

Repairs to house, law of, 956

Reprise perdue darn, 897

Restorative jelly, 770

---- soup, 773

Restoring sour beer, 180

Returned Mariner, 679

Reverberations in rooms, reducing, 8

Rhenish cup, 203

Rheumatism, 821

Rhubarb, 566, 572, 779

---- and orange marmalade, 152

----, bottled, 151

----, bottling, 138

---- cream, 427

---- flummery, 427

---- fool, 427

---- fritters, 428

---- jam, 151

---- jelly, 151, 428

---- mould, 428

---- pudding, 428

----, stewed, 428

---- wine, 204

---- with figs, 428

Rib darn, 900

Rice and carrot soup, 264

---- ---- pea soup, 264

---- ---- sorrel soup, 264

---- ---- tomato soup, 264

----, boiled, 428, 502

----, buying, 577

---- cream, 771

---- croquettes, 428

----, empress, 429

---- fritters, 429

---- gruel, 769

----, kedgeree, 429

---- mange, 429

---- meringue, 429

----, moulded, with mushrooms, 429

---- omelets, 456

---- pie, 430

---- pound cake, 217

---- pudding, 388, 430

----, savoury, 430

---- shape, 430

---- soufflé, 430

---- soup, 263

---- sweet dish, 430

---- waffles, 486

---- water, 775

Richelieu pudding, 430

Richmond maids of honour, 431

Ricotta, 504

Ring, removing from finger, 706

Ringworm, 824

Rinsing machine, 854

Ripening cheese, 161

---- cream, 157

Rippingille’s oil cooker, 237

Risotto, 431, 504

Roach, 293

----, broiled, 293

----, stewed, 293

Roasting, 240

---- -ovens, 240

Robert sauce, 473

Roberts’s rain-water separator, 16

---- terra-cotta stoves, 73

Robinson’s groats, 752

Rolled herrings, 281

---- neck of mutton, 325

---- veal, 342

Rolls, French, 213

Roman pudding, 431

---- punch, 189

Roof, dachpappe, 6

----, dwelling, 5

----, felt, 6

---- gutters, 17, 42

----, metallic, 7

----, pitch of, 5

----, shingles, 6

----, slate, 6

----, thatch, 5

----, tiles, 7

---- ventilators, 59

----, Willesden paper, 6

Rook pie, 365

Rooms, conserving heat in, 60

----, cooling, 59

----, disinfecting, 820

---- for children, 746

----, scenting, 652

----, situations for, 3

----, warming northerly, 77

Roots, keeping, 113, 122

Roquefort cheese, 167

Rose cordial, 189

---- flavour, 480

---- syrup, 178

Rotary washing machine, 852

Rout biscuits, 217

---- cake, 217

Rowan berries, keeping, 122

---- jelly, 152

---- syrup, 178

Royale soup, 252

Rugs, cleaning, 528

Rules for grates, 62

Rum butter, 473

---- omelets, 456

---- shrub, 189

Rumford-Teale grate, 69

Run patch, 891

Rush cream cheese, 160

Rusks, 217

----, sweet, 219

Russian dishes, 507

---- dress, 731

---- jelly, 431

---- salad, 386

Rustless iron water-pipes, 20

Saccharine aerated drinks, 171

Saddle of lamb, 326

---- ---- mutton, 326

Saddles, cleaning, 534

Sætersdal dress, 739

Safe tray for w.c.’s, 46

Safety lamps, domestic, 84

---- light (phosphorus), 93

---- valves for electric light, 95

Saffron buns, 218

Sage cheese, 160

Sago, buying, 578

---- gruel, 410

----, keeping, 114

---- milk, 774

---- pudding, 431

---- soup, 264

---- wine soup, 493

Sail skating, 883

St. Honoré pudding, 431

St. John’s bread flavour, 480

Salad dressings, 379, 382

----, eating, 635

----, fish, 271

Salads, 382

Sally lunns, 218

Salmagundy, 516

Salmon, 293

---- à la Montpelier, 293

---- au bleu, 293

---- ---- gratin, 293

----, boiled, 293

----, broiled, 293

---- boudin, 294

----, buying, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 571, 573, 576

---- cakes, 294

----, carving, 621

---- chaudfroid, 294

---- croquettes, 294

---- cutlets, 295

----, devilled, 295

----, grilled, 295

----, kippered, 129

---- kromeskies, 295

---- mayonnaise, 295

----, pickled, 129

---- pie, 295

---- salad, 296

----, salting, 129

----, scalloped, 296

---- trout, 568, 570, 573

Salsenaugen, 494

Salsify, 582

----, boiled, 379

----, fried, 379

----, scolloped, 379

Salt, 594

---- beef, 314

---- cod, mashed, 276

---- fish, 296

---- of lemon poisoning, 793

---- ---- sorrel poisoning, 793

Salted sprats, 131

---- tongues, 131

Salting bacon, 125

---- bath chaps, 125

---- beef, 125

---- hams, 127

---- herrings, 127

---- oysters, 128

---- porker’s head, 129

---- salmon, 129

---- sardines, 129

Saltpetre, 779

Salts for heating, 82

Sal volatile, 779

Samp, 410

---- pancakes, 432

---- pudding, 432

Samphire, pickled, 135

Sand filters, 26

---- torte, 494

Sanitary Engineering Co.’s ventilator, 58

Sanitation, detecting faults in, 40

---- of dwellings, 35

Santonine, 779

Sardine eggs, 297

---- salad, 297, 387

---- sandwiches, 297

---- sauce, 488

---- toast, 297

Sardines, 296, 576

---- à la maître d’hôtel, 297

----, curried, 296

----, devilled, 296

----, dressed, 296

----, grilled, 297

----, salting, 129

Sarsaparilla beer, 204

---- mead, 189

---- syrup, 178

Sasatijs, 487

Sassafras flavour, 480

Saucepans, 237

----, cleaning, 238

----, enamelled, 238

----, tin, 238

Sauces, 460

---- for game, 345

---- ---- pike, 292

----, truffle, 380

----, white, 379

Sauerbraten, 494

Sausage rolls, 308

Sausages as food, 599

----, making, 129

----, mutton, 326

----, pork, 336

Saving life at fires, 110

Savory and Moore’s food, 752

Savouries, eating, 634

Savoury cutlets, 319

---- eggs, 458

---- omelets, 456

---- rice, 430

---- ---- omelets, 456

Savoy biscuits, 218

---- cabbage soup, 264

---- cake, 218

Savoyard soup, 264

Savoys, 565, 582

Sawyer’s filters, 27

Saxon dress, 728

Scalded cream, 403

Scalds, 785

Scale pans, cleaning, 537

Scalloped beef, 314

---- oysters, 290

---- salmon, 296

Scallops, 297

----, baked, 297

----, fried, 298

----, stewed, 298

Scenting rooms, 652

Schabzieger cheese, 167

Schmarn batter, 494

Schmarollen, 494

School benches, 862

---- books, 863

---- cake, 214

---- clothes, 717

---- desks, 862

---- hours, 865

---- punishments, 868

---- work, 865

Schoolroom, 862

----, literature, 869

Schools, foreign, 868

Scones, 218

----, soda, 219

Scorzonera, 379

----, fried, 379

---- with cheese, 379

Scotch broth, 265

---- eggs, 458

---- kale, 565, 582

---- rarebit, 449

Scottish dishes, 509

Scrag of mutton à la russe, 325

Scrambled eggs, 458

Scrap soup, 264

Scullery walls, 96

Sea bathing, 829

---- bream, 565, 578

Seakale, 379, 566, 569, 582

Seamless patch, 892

Sea-sickness, 822

Seaside lodgings, 746

Seasons, 563

Second-hand furniture, 97

Seconds flour, 209

Seed cake, 218

Selecting a play, 659

Self-filling boilers, 845

Semolina cream, 771

----, keeping, 114

---- soup, 265

Separators for rain-water, 16

September gardening, 934

---- markets, 575

Servants’ bedrooms, 700

----, illness of, 960

----, laws of, 959

---- sitting-room, 96

Servian dress, 731, 735

Service pipes, 20

Serviettes, folding, 617

Setting eggs, 921

Sévigné soup, 250

Sewage microbes in water, 24

Sewer gas entering by the drains, 39

---- ---- reaching cisterns, 44

Sewn and felled patch, 890

---- patch, 891

Shad, 298, 568

Shaking hands, 648

Shallot omelet, 456

Sham champagne, 204

Sharp sauce, 473

Shaving, 708

Shchi, 508

Sheep’s brains, 327

---- heads, 327

---- ----, carving, 627

---- ----, singeing, 328

---- ---- soup, 265

---- heart, 328

---- liver, 328

---- ---- à la Française, 329

---- ---- pudding, 329

---- pluck, 329

---- tongue, 329

---- trotters, 329

Sheepskins, cleaning, 529

Sheets, 702

Shellfish, carving, 622

Shelves, dairy, 154

---- for storing fruit, 116

---- in pantries, 96

Sherbet syrup, 178

Sherry cobbler, 204

---- ---- syrup, 178

Shikaree pie, 346

Shingle roof, 6

Shoes, 711

Shortbread, 218

Shortcake, strawberry, 434

Shoulder of mutton, 330, 485

---- ---- ----, boned, 330

Shrewsbury cake, 218

Shrimp sauce, 474

---- soup, 265

Shrimps, buying, 565, 573

----, potted, 130

----, preserved, 130

Shrub cordial, 189

Shutters, 108

---- of nursery, 746

Siberian pilemaignes, 508

---- whist, 696

Sickbed, 758

Sick headache, 811

Sickroom, 755

---- accessories, 761

----, aspect for, 3

----, books, 826

---- foods, 768

---- thermometer, 764

---- visitors, 758

Sideboards, 98

Sight, defective, 809

Silber lamp, 83

Silicated carbon filters, 28

Silk goods, cleaning, 552

Silver goods, cleaning, 539

---- lace, cleaning, 540

---- nitrate stains on hand, 533

---- torch, 83

Simnel cake, 219

Sine qua non range, 230

Singeing sheep’s head, 328

---- the hair, 809

Singing hinny, 432

Single Gloucester cheese, 165

---- web darn, 899

Sink traps, 45

---- waste pipes, 45

Sinks, 45, 50

----, bell traps in, 50

----, connecting to drains, 39

---- trapped gullies for, 50

Siphon in gas pipes, 85

---- traps, 46

---- ---- useless against rats, 53

Sir Watkin Wynn’s pudding, 432

Site for dwelling, 1

Sitting fowls, 922

Sitting-rooms, aspect for, 3

---- ----, servants’, 96

Situations for rooms, 3

Skate, 298, 565, 578, 580, 582

Skating, 885

Skewered oysters, 290

Skimming milk, 156

Skin complaints, 822

Skink soup, 509

Skins, cleaning, 528

Slap-dashing walls, 9

Slate cisterns, 19

---- roof, 6

Slates bedded in cement, 7

Sleep, 703

----, controlling, 703

---- for children, 749

----, length of, 703

Sleeplessness, 703

Sleight of hand tricks, 664

Sligowitz liqueur, 188

Slip and dip, 516

Slip-stitched patch, 890

Sloe gin, 189

Sloke, 376

Slops in sickroom, 755

Slow combustion grate, 66

---- ---- stoves, 72

Slugs, 561

Smallpox, 813

Smell of burning kitchen waste, to avoid, 49

---- conveyed by bell-wire pipes, 49

---- from cooking, 243

---- from rain-water pipes, 42

Smelts, 298, 565, 566, 568, 570, 578, 580, 582

----, fried, 298

Smith’s gas regulator, 89

Smoke, breathing in, 110

---- test for drains, 41

Smoked geese, 130

---- neats’ tongues, 130

Smoker’s drink, 204

Smoking and health, 666

---- apparatus, 123

---- chimney (for bacon), 124

---- fish, 124

---- foods, 123

----, fuel for, 125

---- herrings, 124

---- mackerel, 124

---- -room, aspect for, 3

---- sprats, 124

Smoky chimney, 80

Snails, 561

Snake bites, 781

Snakes, 562

----, excluding from dwellings, 8

Snipe, 365, 565, 566, 568, 580, 581

----, bisque, 365

----, carving, 631

----, fried, 366

---- on toast, 366

---- pie, 366

----, roast, 366

Snoring, 705

Snowballs, 432

Snow cake, 432

---- mould, 432

---- pancakes, 432

Snowdon pudding, 432

Soap dissolver, 851

Socks, 711

Soda acetate stove, 82

---- poisoning, 793

---- scones, 219

---- water syrups, red colouring for, 176

Sofas, 98

Soft soap to remove grease from drains, 50

---- water, 519

Soil for dwelling, 1

---- pipes, 38, 48

---- ----, joints in, 49

---- ----, ventilation of, 38, 49

Sole à la maître d’hôtel, 298

---- ---- Normande, 298

----, aspic, 298

---- au gratin, 299

---- au vin blanc, 299

----, broiled, 299

----, carving, 622

----, consommé, 299

---- en matelote, 299

----, fillets, 299

----, fricassée, 299

----, fried, 300

---- in brown sauce, 300

---- in cases, 300

---- in jelly, 298

---- roulettes, 300

---- salad, 300

---- savalada, 300

----, stewed, 301

----, water souchet, 301

---- with ravigote sauce, 301

Soles, 298, 565, 566, 568, 570, 573, 578, 580, 582

Soothing syrup poisoning, 793

Sore throat, 802

Sorrel, 380, 568, 569, 572, 582

---- and eggs, 451

---- drink, 516

---- sauce, 489

---- soup, 265

Soubise sauce, 474

Soufflé, 433

Soup-herbs flavour, 480

Soups, 244

----, apple, 247

----, apple and currant, 247

----, artichoke, 247

----, asparagus, 247

----, barley, 247

----, barszcz, 261

----, batter-cream, 247

----, bean, 256

----, beef-tea, 258

----, beer, 247

----, birds’-nests, 247

----, bonne femme, 248, 267

----, bone, 247

----, bones, keeping, 112

----, brunoise, 248, 267

----, cabbage, 264

---- calf’s head, 248

----, carrot, 248

----, cauliflower, 249

----, celery, 249

----, cheap, 249

----, cheese, 261

----, cherry, 250

----, chestnut, 250

----, chicken, 250

----, chiffonade, 267

----, clarifying stock, 246

----, clear, 251

----, clear stock, 245

----, clear, with custard, 252

----, clear, with poached eggs, 252

----, clear, with quenelles, 252

----, cock-a-leekie, 253

----, cockle, 253

----, coconut, 253

----, colbert, 267

----, common stock, 244

----, Condé, 256

----, conger-eel, 253

----, conti, 257

----, crayfish, 253

----, Crécy, 248

----, croûte au pot, 254

----, cussy, 260

----, custard, 254

----, dried turtle, 267

----, eating, 633

----, faubonne, 267

----, fish stock, 246

----, Flemish, 254

----, French, 254

----, fried, 254

----, game, 254

----, giblet, 254

----, gniocchi, 255

----, gravy, 255

----, ---- stock, 246

----, green corn, 255

----, ---- pea, 255

----, grouse, 255, 354

----, hare, 255

----, haricot, 256

----, herb, 256

----, herring, 256

----, hochepot, 260

----, hotchpotch, 256

----, hunter’s, 256

----, imperial, 256

----, Italian, 257

----, Jerusalem artichoke, 261

----, julienne, 257

----, keeping, 113

----, kidney, 257

----, leek, 257

----, lentil, 257

----, lettuce, 258

----, Liebig’s beef tea, 258

----, liver, 258

----, lobster, 258

----, macaroni, 258

----, milk, 258

----, minestrone, 257

----, mock pea, 258

----, ---- turtle, 259

----, mulligatawny, 259

----, mussel, 259

----, mutton broth, 259

----, nivernaise, 248

----, Nouilles, 260

----, okra, 260

----, onion, 260

----, oxtail, 260

----, oyster, 260

----, Palestine, 261

----, Parmesan cheese, 261

----, paysanne, 267

----, pea, 261

----, ----, mock, 258

----, pear, 261

----, plum, 261

----, Polish, 261

----, Pomeranian, 262

----, poor man’s, 262

----, potato, 262

----, pot au feu, 262

----, poultry, 250, 263

----, pumpkin, 263

----, quenelle, 263

----, rice, 263

----, ---- and carrot, 264

----, ---- ---- pea, 264

----, ---- ---- sorrel, 264

----, ---- ---- tomato, 264

---- royale, 252

----, sago, 264

----, Savoyard, 264

----, Savoy cabbage, 264

----, Scotch broth, 265

----, scrap, 264

----, semolina, 265

----, Sévigné, 250

----, sheep’s head, 265

----, shrimp, 265

----, sorrel, 265

----, spinach, 265

----, spring, 265

----, strawberry, 266

----, sweetbread, 266

----, tapioca, 266

----, tea-kettle broth, 266

----, tomato, 266

----, turnip, 266

----, turtle, 266

----, ----, mock, 259

----, veal stock, 246

----, vegetable, 267

----, ---- -marrow, 267

----, ---- stock, 246

----, vermicelli, 267

----, Victoria, 267

----, white, 267

----, ---- stock, 246

Sour beer, restoring, 180

---- dough, curing, 208

---- milk, 113

Sous, 516

Soused bream, 273

---- carp, 274

---- pike, 292

---- sprats, 302

---- trout, 302

Sowens, 509

Spacha, 516

Spanish bitters, 181

---- dance, 653

---- dishes, 509

---- dress, 745

Spatzen, 494

Spectre Dog, 682

---- Workman, 681

Spectre’s Kiss, 684

Spencer corona, 90

Spencer’s magnetic carbide filter, 29

Spice gingerbread, 219

---- nuts, 219

Spiced bacon, 125

---- beef, 126, 314

Spinach, 380, 565, 569, 570, 579, 582

---- greening, 474

----, keeping, 113

----, mashed, 380

---- omelet, 456

---- soup, 265

Spirit lamps, 83

---- of minderus, 779

---- of nitre, 779

---- of salt poisoning, 793

Spirit-rapping séance, 681

Spirits as food, 602

Sponge cake, 219

---- ---- pudding, 433

Sponge, cleaning, 545

Sponge pudding, 433

Spongy iron as a filter, 24, 30

Sprains, 793

Sprat pie, 301

---- toast, 302

Sprats, 301, 580

----, baked, 301

----, fried, 301

----, patties, 301

----, pickled, 131

----, potted, 131

----, rissoles, 302

----, salted, 131

----, smoking, 124

----, soused, 302

Spring bed, 702

Spring soup, 265

Springs, 13, 14

----, seasonal variation, 14

Sprouts, 565

Spruce beer, 204

Spurge laurel poisoning, 793

Squab pie, 331

Square eights dance, 653

Stables, 910

Stack-pipes, 42

Stage illusions, 656

Stained floors, 96

Stains, removing, 553

Staircase curtains, 98

Stanford’s pipe drains, 53

Starching, 548

Stays, 710

Steam baths, 831

---- boiler, 234

---- cooking, 233

---- heating, 81, 82

---- laundries, 849

---- oven, 208

---- power, 940

---- washing, 848

---- on windows, curing, 83

Steamed oysters, 291

Steatite gas burners, 85, 87

Steel, cleaning, 538

Steinlach dress, 731

Stewing, 242

---- fish, 269

Stewpans, copper, 238

Stews as food, 599

Sticklerspersgrod, 494

Still lemonade, 205

Stilton cheese, 165

Stings, 780

Stock, 244

----, clarifying, 246

----, clear, 245

----, fish, 246

----, gravy, 246

----, veal, 246

----, vegetable, 246

----, white, 246

Stockings, 711

Stölle, 495

Stomach bitters, 181

---- pump, 791

Stone cisterns, 19

----, cleaning, 535

Stoneware drains, 52

Stopped drains, 38, 50

Stoppers, removing, 562

Stopping chinks in floors, 56

---- ---- in windows, 56

Storing ice, 114

Stott’s gas regulator, 88

Stouffate, 509

Stoughton bitters, 181

Stoves, American, 70

----, close-fire, 71

----, convoluted, 74

----, German, 74

----, gill, 73

----, hot-air, 75

----, oil, 79

----, open, 62

----, slow combustion, 72

----, underfed, 71

Sracchino cheese, 166

Strange Christmas-box, 679

Straw goods, cleaning, 522

---- palliasse, 701

Strawberries, 568, 569, 570, 572, 574

----, bottling, 138

----, preserved, 152

Strawberry chartreuse, 433

---- cordial, 189

---- cream, 433

---- essence, 179

---- flavour, 480

---- ice cream, 443

---- jam, 137, 152

---- jelly, 152

---- short-cake, 434

---- soup, 266

---- syrup, 178

---- tartlets, 434

Strengthening darn, 897

Stretchers, 787

Strode’s gas regulator, 89

Strudels, 495

Strychnine poisoning, 793

Stuffed artichokes, 372

---- cabbage, 374

---- John Dory, 281

---- red mullet, 287

---- specimens, cleaning, 547

Stuffing, chestnut, 367

----, truffle and chestnut, 366

Stuffings, 460

Sturgeon, 582

Styes in eyes, 809

Styles and titles, 648

Suburek, 513

Sucking pig, 337

---- ----, carving, 627

Suction lamps, 83

---- pipe of pumps, 20

Suet keeping, 112

---- pudding, 343, 434

Suffocation, 790

Sugar, buying, 577

---- of lead poisoning, 793

Sugg’s gas regulating burner, 89

Sulphate of copper, 779

---- ---- potash, 779

---- ---- quinine, 779

---- ---- zinc, 779

Sulphuric acid poisoning, 793

---- ether, 779

---- orangeade, 205

Sultanas, 582

Summer beer, 179

---- drinks, 205

---- milk, 156

Sun burner, 90

Sunlight, 82

Sunstroke, 794

Suppers, 646

Swan, 581

Sweating, excessive, 824

Swedish dance, 653

Sweeping carpet, 525

Sweet dishes, 387

---- omelets, 456

---- potatoes, 568

---- rice omelets, 456

---- rusks, 219

---- sauce, 474

Sweetbread, 343, 569

---- soup, 266

----, stewed, 344

Sweetmeat nuts, 219

Swill-tubs condemned, 49

Swimming, 886

---- dresses, 718

Swiss cream, 156

---- darn, 898

---- eggs, 459

---- omelets, 457

---- pastry, 434

---- pudding, 434

---- roll, 435

Switches for electric light, 95

Swizzle, 516

Syllabubs, 205

Syrian curtains, 98

Syrup for ices, 441

---- of senna, 779

Syrups, candying, 175

---- for aerated drinks, 173

----, fruit, preventing fermentation of, 175

----, preparing, 174

----, preserving, 175

----, soda-water, red colouring for, 176

Tables, drawing-room, 97

Tainted dripping, 112

---- meat, 112

Tamarind fish, 302, 503

Tanks, rain-water, 15, 16

Tansy pudding, 435

Tapestry carpets, 97

Tapioca and apples, 389

----, buying, 578

---- cream, 435

---- pudding, 435

---- snow, 435

---- soufflé, 435

---- soup, 266

Taps for drinking-water, 45

Tar, removing from hands, 533

---- stains, removing, 555

Tarragon vinegar, 137

Tartar emetic poisoning, 793

Tartare sauce, 474

Tauf, 513

Tauk dolmas, 513

Taxes, 957

Tea as a drink, 604

----, beef, 316

---- cake, 219

----, testing, 520

----, veal, 344

Teaching, 865

Tea-kettle broth, 266

Teal, 568, 580, 581

Teapot, cleaning, 547

Tears of the widow of Malabar cordial, 189

Teas, 642

----, high, 645

Teething, 752

Telephone, 103

Tellemarken dress, 739

Temperature for setting milk, 158

---- of dairy, 154

---- of patient, 764

---- of sickroom, 755

Temptations of St. Anthony, 682

Tenancy, determination of, 957

Tench, 302, 580

----, broiled, 302

----, roast, 302

----, stewed, 382

Tent cordial, 189

Test for drinking-water, 24

Testing air, 55, 518

---- bread, 520

---- butter, 520

---- cocoa, 521

---- coffee, 521

---- drainage system, 40

---- drains, 52

---- eggs, 922

---- foods, 519

---- gas pipes, 92

---- milk, 520

---- pepper, 521

---- pickles, 521

---- tea, 520

---- water, 519

Textile goods, cleaning, 547

Thames Bank Iron Co.’s stove, 71

Thatched roof, 5

Thawing pipes, 847

Theatricals, amateur, 654

Thermometer, clinical, 764

Thick gingerbread, 219

Thieves, precautions, 108

Thirst, 603

Thomas and Taylor’s churn, 158

Thorncliffe range, 228

Thunder, artificial, 656

Tile floors, 7

---- roof, 7

Tiles, glazed, 96

Tin saucepans, 238

Tincture of arnica, 779

---- of chiretta, 779

---- of colchicum, 779

---- of henbane, 779

---- of lavender, 779

---- of quinine, 779

---- of rhubarb, 779

---- of squills, 780

---- of steel, 780

---- of valerian, 780

Tinned meat collops, 307

---- ----, cooking, 307

---- ---- in batter, 307

---- ----, Irish stew, 307

---- ----, mince, 307

---- ---- patties, 307

---- ---- pie, 307

---- ---- pudding, 308

---- ---- sausage rolls, 308

---- ---- shape, 308

---- ---- stew, 308

---- ----, Vienna steak, 308

---- ---- vinaigrette, 308

Tipsy puddings, 435

Titles and styles, 648

Toast and water, 206

----, fish, 271

Tobacco pipes, cleaning, 555

---- smoking, 606

Toffee, 439, 499

Toilet, 706

---- table, 98

Tolu ratafia, 190

Tomato cheese, 449

---- chutney, 133

---- omelets, 457

---- pickle, 136

---- preserve, 153

---- salad, 387

---- sauce, 475, 504

---- soup, 266

Tomatoes, 576, 579, 582

---- and eggs, 451

---- and meat pudding, 380

----, baked, 380, 484

----, forced, 380

----, keeping, 122

---- stewed, 484

----, stuffed, 380

Tongue, 316

----, salted, 131

----, sheep’s, 329

Tonic lemonade, 173

Toothache, 825

Toothbrushes, 708, 825

Tooth powders, 824

Tooth troubles, 824

Tops and bottoms, 220

Tortoise stove, 72

Tourist outfit, 721

Training, 870

Transferring, 893

Trapped drains, 52

---- gullies for sinks, 50

Trapping cistern pipes, 44

---- w.c. waste pipe, 46

Traps of w.c.’s, 46

Travelling dress, 721

Treacle pie, 436

---- posset, 773

---- pudding, 436

Treasure range, 229

Trees around dwellings, 2

Trial by fire, 683

Tricks and illusions, 664

Trifle, 436

Tripe, 337

Triumph dance, 652

Trousers, 711

Trout, 352, 489, 568, 569, 570, 571, 573

----, baked, 302

----, broiled, 302

----, grilled, 302

---- jelly, 302

----, potted, 132

----, soused, 302

----, stewed, 303

---- with remoulade sauce, 303

Truffle and chestnut stuffing, 366, 477

---- sauce, 380, 477

Truffles, 380, 579

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