How to keep house!, or, Comfort and elegance on £150 to £200 a-year : containing tables for marketing; rules for general and minor expenditure; for procuring good servants; for cookery; for the food and education of children; for the preservation of health, &c. &c.

Date:
1832
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Credit: How to keep house!, or, Comfort and elegance on £150 to £200 a-year : containing tables for marketing; rules for general and minor expenditure; for procuring good servants; for cookery; for the food and education of children; for the preservation of health, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    19/40 (page 17)
    Per Year. I. s. d. Black-lead, Whiting, Sand-stone, Wear and Tear of Dusters and Brooms . . . ' '1 0 0 } Butter, per week, 21bs. Fresh at \ s.\d per lb. * I G 6 0 do. § lb. Salt at ll(/.per lb. Cheese 10 0 Hams 10 0 Bacon . 0 10 0 IS 0 Fish and Poultry 400 Butcher's meat,* Three Joints per Week, makina; an avcrai^e ^ 1 ' • . ^ 20 0 0 supply per annum, amounting to . . . . j Green Grocer (ready money, Covent Garden, \ 1 \ 4 3 10 0 once a W eek) j £2a 10 0 * The butcher in your immediate neighbourhood, pro- vided he is in a lauge way and highly respectable, is the person you siiould employ ; otherwise select one of this description in town. Small butchers and fishmongers are a positive nuisance. c3