The complete servant Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables

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Though habits of domestic management are now generally precluded in the education of young ladies of the superior class, yet, happily, attention to family concerns is not unfreq...

One of the most advantageous qualifications in all servants, and particularly in females, is that of preserving a _good temper_, and endeavouring, to the utmost of their abiliti...

“When you are chid before company, it often happens that some stranger will have the good-nature to drop a word in your excuse;—in such a case you will have a good title to just...

Besides being a good market-woman, the housekeeper ought to be ready at figures, and to understand the nature of common accounts, as it will generally be her business to keep th...

GOOSE.—A goose, fowl, turkey, pheasant, and partridge, are to be cut up nearly alike. First cut off the apron of the goose, and pour into the body a glass of port wine, and the...

BUTTER should be chosen by the taste and smell.—The best fresh butter is the Epping, and next the Cambridge; sometimes the potted weekly Dorset is very good. Of tub butter, the...

Pull the almonds from the tree before they shell, scrape off the down, and put them into a pan with cold spring water; then put them into a skillet with more spring water; set i...

Take up the roots in July; clean them perfectly as soon as out of the earth, then hang them up in the air, till nearly dry; after this cut them into thin slices, and boil them i...

Put a sufficient quantity into salt and water for nine days, observing to change the water every day; next put them into jars and pour fresh boiling salt and water over them, co...

To each Scotch pint of full ripe gooseberries, mashed, add one Scotch pint of water, milk-warm, in which has been dissolved 1 lb. of single refined sugar: stir the whole well, a...

Take cherries, nearly ripe, of any red sort, clear them of the stalks and stones, then put them into a glazed earthen vessel, and squeeze them to a pulp. Let them remain in this...

Take a well-glazed earthen vessel, and put into it three gallons of rose-water drawn with a cold still. Put into that a sufficient quantity of rose leaves, cover it close, and s...

Mix together 4 oz. of oil of almonds, ½ an oz. of English oil of lavender, 2 quarts of spirit of wine, and 10 do. of rose-water. Next, blanch 3 lbs. of Jordan almonds, and pound...

A second sort of this powder may be made by using half the quantity of the perfume, to twelve pounds of powder, and adding two drops of otto of roses, previously dropped on suga...

Take a pint of orange-flower water, a pint of rose-water, and half a pint of myrtle-water; to these put a quarter of an ounce of distilled spirit of musk, and an ounce of spirit...

Pour a pint of boiling water on an ounce of coffee; let it boil five or six minutes, then pour out a cupful two or three times, and return it again; put two or three isinglass s...

_To prepare Soups, &c._—the first care of the Cook will be to see that the stew-pan to be used is well tinned, scalded, and wiped out perfectly clean and dry. She will put some...

A conjuror or Papin’s digester is a very economical Utensil. It will dress a steak deliciously, with the addition of a little catsup, or with oysters, &c.—It boils water in a fe...

It is the business of this servant to light the fires in the kitchen range, and under the copper or boilers, and stew-holes—to wash up all the plates and dishes—scour and clean...

Take three quarts of common oil, half a pint of spirit of wine, three ounces of cinnamon powder, two ounces of bergamot. Put it in a large pipkin, and give it a good heat. When...

After it is a month old, if it has no cough, fever, nor eruption, the bath should be colder and colder (if the season be mild) and by degrees it may be used as it comes from the...

The first thing, is to cleanse the stomach by a few grains of ipecacuanha, and soon afterwards to administer some active purgative. For restoring the healthy secretions of the b...

Are entirely under the direction of the Upper House Maid, and are chiefly employed in cleaning and scouring the stoves and grates, scouring the coal skuttles, kettles, and fire-...

The first food should be split grits, afterwards tail wheat, all watery food, soaked bread, or potatoes, being improper. Eggs boiled hard, or curd chopped small, is very suitabl...

Marshmallow roots contain nothing soluble in water except mucilage, which is very abundant in them. This decoction is therefore to be considered merely as an _emollient_, render...

The person ought to be immediately carried into the open air, and the temples should be rubbed with strong vinegar and brandy, and volatile salts or spirits held to the nose. Th...

In the business of accounts, the first objects are, arrangement, perspicuity, and security. In all accounts of property, there are certain general rules which must be attended t...

In fining it, proceed in the same way as with the Madeira; only observe, that if not wanted very pale, keep the milk out of the finings. This tender wine should be fed with a li...

The duties of this servant are not so various nor so important as those of the footman; indeed, they are very frequently, and particularly in small families, a part of the busin...

The helpers and assistants are now busily employed in looking over and cleaning such of the harness as was last used, and remains uncleaned. This, having been washed from the we...

Have a wooden horse to put the clothes on, and a small cane or small hand-whip to beat the dust out of them; also a board or table long enough for them to be put their whole len...

The duties of this servant are confined to the entrance-hall, and the door, where he is continually stationed. He answers every knock and ring, takes in all messages, parcels, l...

This is the first operation of rearing. Where seeds are deposited singly, as in rows of beans, or large ruts, they are said to be planted; where dropt in numbers together, to be...

_He shall do no damage to his said Master, nor see it to be done of others, but that he to his power shall let_ (that is, prevent or hinder) _or forthwith give warning to his sa...

=TAB. III.= From Fivepence-halfpenny to Eightpence-halfpenny. ----+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- No. | 5½_d._| 6_d._| 6½_d._| 7_d._| 7½_d._| 8_d._| 8½_...

If a servant be hired for a year certain, or for any indefinite time, which is construed in law, to be for a year, his master cannot discharge him either before, or at the end o...

Hyde Park Corner 3 6 India House 3 0 Mile-End Gate 4 0 Ratcliffe 5 6 Shoreditch Church 4 0 Tower 3 6 Tyburn Gate 3 0 Union Street, Borough 3 6

A clerk regularly attends at the Money Order Office from nine o’clock in the morning till six in the evening, and guarantees the safe conveyance of any sum, payable at sight by...

Carte blanche (_cart-blansh_). Unconditional terms. Chateau (_shat-o_). Country-seat. Chef d’œuvre (_she-deuvre_). Master piece. Ci-devant (_see-de-vang_). Formerly. Comme il fa...

144 Square Inches, that is, 12 by 12, make 1 Square Foot 9 Square Feet 1 Yard 30¼ sq. Yards, or 272¼ sq. Feet 1 Pole 40 Sq. Poles, or Perches 1 Rood 4 Square Roods, or 160 sq. R...

Daffy’s Elixir, 315 DAIRY-MAID, duties of, 295 Damson Cheese, to make, 111 Damsons, to bottle, 113 Dedication to the Heads of Families, 1 Dentition of Children, 265 Dessert, arr...

Needle-work, the Lady’s maid’s, 239 Negative Advice to Servants, by Dean Swift, 42 New services, 32 NURSE, the CHAMBER, 301 —————————— UNDER, 271 —————————— HEAD, directions to,...

Wages, 41 ————— Tables of, _Appendix_ 5 Walnuts, to pickle, 117 Wardrobe, care of, 237 Warts, to cure, 324 Washing-Day, 293 ——————————— of Children, 255 Wasp’s Sting, remedy for...