Cookery made easy : being a complete system of domestic management, uniting elegance with economy : to which are added instructions for trussing and carving, with several descriptive plates; method of curing and drying hams and tongues, mushroom and walnut ketchups, Quin's sauce, vinegars, &c., &c., with other necessary information for small families, housekeepers, &c., the whole being the result of actual experience / by Michael Willis.

  • Willis, Michael, active 1825.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Cookery made easy : being a complete system of domestic management, uniting elegance with economy : to which are added instructions for trussing and carving, with several descriptive plates; method of curing and drying hams and tongues, mushroom and walnut ketchups, Quin's sauce, vinegars, &c., &c., with other necessary information for small families, housekeepers, &c., the whole being the result of actual experience / by Michael Willis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cause them to descend, and wlien they sotllr, they should be immediately hived, lest they should a^ain take wing. The hive should not be immediately placed on the stool where it is to remain, but should be sulFered to stand near the place where the bees were swept into it, till the evening', and shaded with some boughs. Bees are torpid during a great part of the winter, but revive on sunny days, in consequence of which, a little food supports them. Every hive should, there- fore, be weighed at the end of autumn, and each ought then to weigh twenty pounds, bnt should any weigh less, that hive must be occasionally fed wilh honey, or sugar and water, put in small troughs made with elder. Bees arc generally taken in September, for which purpose a hole is dug in the earth, and a rag dipt in melted brimstone, fastened to the end of a slick, is stuck ill the hole so prepared. Then set it on fire and instantly place the hive over it, observing I4 throw the earth up all round, to prevent the smoke from escaping. In fifteen or twenty minutes, the bees will be des- troyed. The valuable creatures thus destroyed may, how- ever, be preserved, by using boxes instead of hives; by which method two boxes of honey may be taken . during the summer from one colony, each weighing forty pounds, and yet a sufficient supply be left for the winter support of the bees, in this manner pre- served from destruction. Consequently, it appears that this plan combim's numanity with great profit, to which motives we may add the pleasure of seeing them at work, and also tlie trouble which is saved during the swarming lime. The bees thus secured, are also mucii more elfee- tually screened from wet and cold, from mice, and '>thcr vermin.