JOHN DICKS, 313, STRAND; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1871.

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COLLEGE

HARVARD

May 3. 1929

LIBRARY

Miss G. L. Thurston

PRE FACE.

In the performance of the task of compilation, the chief aim has been to render this

work as extensively useful as possible. It will be found to contain directions, &c., of

more than Two THOUSAND Receipts of interest and utility. A general arrangement

has been adopted, because the object of the work. is popular and universal, and

especially directed to practical persons and the public at large. The whole book, it is

hoped, forms a compendious Cyclopædia for the tradesman, mechanic, emigrant, and

amateur, as well as the heads of families; and it is believed, that there are few

persons

who will not find, on looking over its pages, some articles that will interest them.

The sources which have been consulted for much of the present volume are such as

to render it deserving of the utmost confidence, no expense having been spared to

procure the most valuable books or obtain the advice of the best living authorities in all the departments and branches of which the work treats,

ABLUTION, 147.
Accidents from Edge Tools, &c. 5.
Adhesive Mixture, for sticking specimens on

paper, 75.

Adulteration in Beer, method of detecting, 95.

of Bread, 143.
of Rum or Braude, ! 13.

of Wheat flour, 138.
Ague, 198.
Air of a Sick chamber, to purify, 49.
Air pump, cheap, 139.
Alabaster objects, to clean, 41.
Alcohol in Wines, 103.
Ale, 1.

· Mulled, 42.

Table, 8.
-or Beer, to recover flat, 83.
Almond Custard Cream, 162.

Paste, 24.

Rocher, 119.
Almonds, to blanch, 226.

to colour, 226.
to a Paste, to reduce, 226.

to Pound, 226.
Amalgam, electrical, 51.

for Mirrors, 102.
Amaurosis, or Gutta Serena, 191
Anchovies, British, 44.

Essence of, 41,

Potted, 195.
Anchovy Paste, 17.
Anglers, hints to, 235,
Antibilious Pills, 8.
Anti-croup mixture, 74.
Anxiety, nervous, 7.
Apérient Pills, 31, 33.
A poplexy, Treatment of, 3, 94.
Appetite, to create an, 5, 8.
Apples, 24.

Buttered, 79.
Archery, 238
Arsenic, Antidote to, 8.

Test for, 102.
Artichokes en Salade, 99.
Articles of Dress, methods of renovating, 63,73
Artificial Coral Work, to make, 75.

Respiration, 25.
Asthma, 2, 111, 187.
Astringent Mixture, 109, 169.
Auriculas, mould for, 110.

Autograj hy, 106.

BACON, 28.

to cure, 158.
- Spiced, 66.

to Boils 88.
Bales, Eng
Ealloots, Valash i Silk, 15
Balsam of Huney, 42.
Bamboo, English, 66.
Banbury Cakes, 37.

Meat, 213.
Bandoline for the hair, 200.
Barble, to Angle for, 26
Bark, decoction of, 62.
Barley Sugar, 108.

Watcr, 16.
Barm, Liquid, 143.
Bath, the Cold, 133.
Batter, French, 219.
Beans, to boil Windsor, 5$,

to Boil French, 57.
Beech, to stain, 142,
Beef-a-la-mode, 44, 130.

- Brisket of, 142.
Collared, 38,
Hamburg, 44.
How to choose, 34
Hung, 43.
Leicester spiced, 39.
Steaks, stewed, 60.
Tea, 44.
to Salt, 35.

Tongues, to Dress, 39.
Beer, from growing flat, to prevert.nl

Cheap, 6.
Ginger, 43.
Potato, 8.
Stale, to restore, 57.
Sugar, to brew cheap, 49.

Treacle, 8.
Beer, 212.
Bees' Wax and Turpentine, 22).
Beetles, to exterminate, 180.
Beetroot, 52.

to Bake or Boil, 16.
Binding Merchants' Account Books, 33.
Birdlime, to make, 84.
Birds, to prevent from building in chimonies, *

to stuff, 180.
Biscuits, Abernethy, 167.

Bitter Almond, 117.
Drops, 215, 231.