Cottage economy: containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread [&c. Publ. in 7 pt.].

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Page 12 - Before you hang it up, lay it on the floor, scatter the flesh side pretty thickly over with bran, or with some fine sawdust, not of deal or fir ; rub it on the flesh, or pat it well down upon it : this keeps the smoke from getting into the little openings, and makes a sort of crust to be dried on.
Page 7 - Talk, indeed, of your pantomimes and gaudy shows j your processions and installations and coronations ! Give me, for a beautiful sight, a neat and smart woman, heating her oven and setting in her bread ! And, if the bustle does make the sign of labour glisten on her brow, where is the man that would not kiss that off, rather than lick the plaster from the cheek of a duchess...
Page 7 - If the weather be very cold, some cloths or sacks should be put round the tun- tub while the beer is working. In about six or eight hours a frothy head will rise upon the liquor; and it will keep rising, more or less slowly, for about forty-eight hours. But, the length of time required for the working depends on various circumstances; so that no precise time can be fixed. The best way is, to take off the froth (which is indeed yeast) at the end of about twentyfour hours, with a common skimmer, and...
Page 1 - Women, so amiable in themselves, are never so amiable as when they are useful ; and as for beauty, though men may fall in love with girls at play, there is nothing to make them stand to their love Hke seeing them at work.

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