Modern domestic cookery : based on the well-known work of Mrs. Rundell, but including all the recent improvements in the culinary art, founded on principles of economy and practical knowledge, and adapted for private families / by a lady. With illustrative woodcuts.

Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Modern domestic cookery : based on the well-known work of Mrs. Rundell, but including all the recent improvements in the culinary art, founded on principles of economy and practical knowledge, and adapted for private families / by a lady. With illustrative woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    would go far to create a cordial degree of attachment, which must ever be desirable in a respectable family, and is cheaply purchased by such consideration. Mildness of language will generally be met by respectful language on the part of a servant, and of itself will produce a saving of temper at least to the master or mistress. Due praise will mostly be found a powerful stimulus to good, and in some measure a preventive to bad conduct, on the part of a servant. To young beginners in housekeeping, the following brief hints on domestic economy, in the management of a moderate income, may perhaps prove acceptable. Whenever anything is bought a bill of parcels and a receipt should be required, even if the money be paid at the time of purchase; and, to avoid mistakes, the goods should be com- pared with these when brought home; if the money is to be paid at a future period, a bill should be sent with the articles and regularly fded. An inventory of furniture, linen, and china should be kept, and the things examined by it twice a-year, or oftener if there be a change of servants; the articles used by servants should be intrusted to their care with a list, as is done with plate. In articles not in common use, such as spare bedding, &c., tickets of parchment, numbered and specifying to what they belong, should be sewed on each ; and minor articles in daily use, such as household cloths and kitchen requisites, should be occasion- ally looked to. The best means to preserve blankets from moths is to fold and lay them under the feather-beds that are in use, and shake them occasionally; when soiled, they should be washed, not scoured. The most durable sort of linens for sheeting are the Russia, German, or Irish fabrics; a good stock of which, as well as of tabie-linen, should be laid in to avoid the necessity of fre- quent or irregular washing. A proper quantity of household articles should always be allowed for daily use. Each should also be kept in its proper place, and applied to its proper use. Let all repairs be done as soon as wanted, remembering the old adage of “ a stitch in