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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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Getting sexy with cinnamon
Add some flavour to your love life with this spice. It will warm up more than just your buns.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Beyond a green carpet
Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.
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A discourse on trade, and other matters relative to it. Viz. Of Trade in general: Of the Trade of England: Of Husbandry, Feeding, Tillage, Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals, Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-Wool, Cotton-Wool. Hemp and Flax: Glass, Earthen-Ware, Silk, Distilling: The great Advantages of a universal National Bank demonstrated: Sugar-Baking, Tobacco, Tanning, Clock-Work, Paper - Mills, Powder - Mills: Method to improve our Manufactures, by imploying the Poor: Of Courts of Merchants, Silver Coin: An effectual Method to prevent the Running of Wool: Of our Trade to the East and West-Indies, Africa, the Plantations, Iceland, the Canaries, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Holland, Hamburgh, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, France, South-Sea, &c. What foreign Trades are profitable, and what not. An Essay on National Credit, and the Irish Linnen Manufacture, &c. &c. &c. Wrote at the request of several Members of Parliament. And now Published for universal Benefit. By John Cary, Esq; Merchant of Bristol.
Cary, John, -1720?.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The art of making sugar: Under the heads of I. The Natural History of the Sugar-Cane. II. The Culture of the Sugar-Cane. III. The Mills for pressing the Canes; and Furnaces, Coppers, &c. for boiling the Juice. IV. The Method of making Muscovado V. The Method of preparing clayed Sugars. VI. The Method of making Sugar from Melasses and Scums. Vii. The refining of Sugars. With an appendix containing The Art of fermenting and distilling Melasses, Scums, &c. for rum.
Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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An essay on the art of making Moscovado sugar wherein a new process is proposed.
Baker, I. P.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Art de rafiner le sucre / Par M. Duhamel du Monceau.
Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.Date: [1764]- Books
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Remarks on the manufacturing of maple sugar: with directions for its further improvement. Collected by a society of gentlemen, in Philadelphia, and published for the general information and benefit of the citizens of the United States.
Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]