ANTIQUE VICTORIAN COOKBOOK FARM MEDICAL HOUSE BARN ARCHITECTURE BEES HORSE TOOLS For Sale
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ANTIQUE VICTORIAN COOKBOOK FARM MEDICAL HOUSE BARN ARCHITECTURE BEES HORSE TOOLS:
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“The American farmer of to-day ought be the happiest, most independent man on earth. The glory of this republic, as of all prosperous nations, is its husbandmen, their wives, sons and daughters. Let it be the aim of each of us to make more glorious this favored land, by using the mind as well as the muscles the Almighty has given us …”
THE AMERICAN FARM AND HOME CYCLOPEDIA, Containing Valuable Suggestions on Agriculture – General and Special Horticulture, Stock Raising, Gardening, Farm Law and Business, Farm Architecture, Household Management, Home Treatment of the Sick and Cases of Accidental Injuries, Home Occupations for Youth, Field Sports, Etc., With Numerous Tables Relating to Farm Products, Fertilizers, Live Stock, Fruit, Poultry, Wages, Interest, Etc. By Horace R. Allen. © 1881 FIRST EDITION. Published by Myers & Minturn, Publishers, Indianapolis. 9.5” x 6.5” blindstamped green cloth hardcover decorated in gilt and black. Illustrated with color plates and 1500 text illustrations. 1005 pages.
Condition: Exterior as shown in photo. Text is clean and complete. Inner hinges cracked, binding shaken. Text block is all in one piece but has play in it, book should be handled gently. Page 311/312 has a 2-3” tear. No dampstains, no musty smells.
NOTE: I recently acquired a wonderful collection of antique cookbooks, receipts books, etc. Some I have offered on already. Some are currently at sale right now, while still others are waiting to be saleed in coming days and weeks. If you love to collect these old volumes of cookery, "domestic economy," formularies, etc., I urge you to visit my sales frequently to see what each new day brings. Thank you for your interest in my books.
DESCRIPTION:
Here’s a rare opportunity to get your own original 1881 First Edition of the AMERICAN FARM AND HOME CYCLOPEDIA, one of the biggest and best farming and household guides published during the Victorian era.
The 19th-century family farm was one of America’s last great bastions of self-reliance. As more and more people abandoned their rural roots and went off to work for factory wages in company-owned towns, the farm stood as a symbol of American self-sufficiency. Situated miles away from town centers, the farmer and his family had only themselves to depend on, through good times and bad.
THE AMERICAN FARM AND HOME CYCLOPEDIA was published to meet every need and contingency of life on the farm, from agriculture, husbandry and farm architecture, to housekeeping, cooking, medical care, sports and pastimes. A handy go-to guide for every situation, happenstance, how-to or emergency. Fully illustrated with 1500 illustrations prepared especially for this work.
Think of it as your great-great-grandfather’s Google: A single, reliable, 19th-century resource granting easy access to reams and reams of useful and valuable period information about farming and household industry. It can tell you how to efficiently and productively run a farm, how to raise crops and livestock, how to build your own Victorian farmhouse, barns and other buildings, and how to be healthy, wealthy and wise all your life.
WITH MORE THAN 100 CHAPTERS on:
AGRICULTURE: How to grow Grain and Other Staple Crops; How to Grow Cotton, Hops, Hemp and Tobacco; Insect Pests and How to Destroy Them; Fertilizers and Manures; Drainage and Irrigation; Fallowing and Rotation; and more!
LIVE STOCK AND HUSBANDRY: How To Raise, Breed and Care for Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry; How to Manage Your Dairy; How to Keep Bees and Maintain Your Hives; and more!
HORTICULTURE:: Fruit Trees and How to Grow Them; How to Establish and Maintain Orchards and Arbors; Recommended Varieties of Fruits for Each State; and more!
GARDENING: How to Plant and Maintain Vegetable Gardens; Different Vegetables to Grow; How to Grow Aromatic and Medicinal Herbs; Flower Gardens; Annuals, Climbing Annuals, Everlasting Annuals, Biennials, Perennials; Flower Bulbs, Tubers and Roots; and more!
FARM ARCHITECTURE: Where to Build; How to Site a House and Outbuildings; Building Materials; Light, Heat, Ventilation; Cellars, Closets and Vaults; Paints, Stains and Varnishes; Whitewashing; Designs, Floor Plans and Estimates of Farms Houses, Barns and Outbuildings; How to Build an Icehouse; How to Build Fences and Gates, and more!
THE HOUSEHOLD: More than 400 Cooking Recipes; How to Preserve Fruits and Vegetables; Pickling; Canning; Child-Rearing; Etiquette; Household Management; and more!
OUTDOORS SPORTS AND PASTIMES: Guns and Gunning; Hunting; Trapping; Fishing; Taxidermy; Swimming; and more!
HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Health and Exercise; Clean Living; How to Care for the Sick; Cookery for the Sick; Accidents and First Aid; Home Medication; Prescriptions; How to Treat Deformities in Children; and more!
Each section is like a book unto itself! And more! (sorry, couldn’t resist) Even if you’re not all that into farming, the Architecture Section alone is worth the price of purchase, with its many Victorian house designs, floor plans and estimates. The same goes for the cookbook section loaded with more than 400 antique recipes!
This book also has law and business sections to explain the vagaries of common law, patents, water rights, mortgages, banks and banking, Homestead Laws, and more!
There’s even an entire section on home or cottage industries and ways that farmers and their families could make extra money back in the day!
Each and every section of this book was prepared and examined by specialists in the respective fields. As the Introduction states:
This work is an attempt to compress into a form at once useful and convenient all the most authentic information on Agriculture and its related industries, on domestic duties and occupations, interests and conditions, which can be made practically valuable in this country … The author has striven, at the cost of much money and labor, to combine these two objects: a cheap book and a complete collection of practical knowledge on the subjects embraced. Every portion of the work has been prepared expressly for it, and much of it has never been published in any form before. Most of the cuts are from original designs, drawn and engraved for it. A very large portion of it has been obtained at first hands of writers of experience and practical knowledge, of both sexes, and every department has been submitted to persons of known intelligence, integrity and familiarity with the matters treated, to make sure of as complete accuracy as possible.
The illustrations have been made a marked feature of the work, partly because it enhances the interest of any book, even to a professional student, but chiefly because they explain many things better than any verbal description. All but very few have been designed by artists engaged expressly for this work.
For your convenience, I have condensed the Contents into a more manageable format below, providing extra detail about chapters I found most interesting. I’ve also included a great many photos of the book and its handsome illustrations. I hope you’ll take a few moments to have a look.
Contents Are:
PART FIRST ~ AGRICULTURE:
CHAPTER ONE ~ INTRODUCTION: Introduction * Birth of Agriculture * The Art of Agriculture * Agriculture and its history * Agricultural Problems of Today * Transportation of Farm Products * Advancements in the Application of Fertilizers * Agriculture offers opportunities for Inventive Genius and Scientific Research * What makes a Good Farmer * Farmers' Sons * Farming a Desirable Vocation * Science and its effect on Farming * Annual Agricultural Products of the United States * America Feeding the World * Facilities for Educating Farmers' Children * Duty of American Farmers
CHAPTER TWO ~ PURCHASING THE FARM: Buying vs. Leasing * Selecting a Location for a Farm * Important points to be considered
CHAPTER THREE ~ FARMING: Why do Farmers Keep Poor? * Farming and Wastefulness * The Scientific Farmer’s Creed * Farming * The Literature of Agriculture
CHAPTER FOUR ~ SOIL AND PLANTS
CHAPTER FIVE ~ HOW FARM CROPS GROW
CHAPTER SIX ~ MANURES
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ FARM IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS AND MACHINERY: Primitive Farm Implements * Modern Farm Implements * Buy the Best * What are Needed, and Approximate Cost * Axle-Grease and other Lubricants
CHAPTER NINE ~ FENCES AND GATES: Object of Fencing * Various kinds of Fences: Brush, Hedge, Stump, Rail, Post and Rail, Picket, Board, Wire, Stone and Movable Fences * Fence-Board Holder * Fruit Trees for Posts * Twine Instead of Wire * Strengthening with Wire * Iron Fences and Gates * Fences for Bottom Lands * Advantages of Ridging up * Advantages of Gates * Difficulties of Construction * How to Prevent Gates from Sagging * Various Forms of Gates * How to Set Posts * Inverted Fence Posts * How to prevent Fences decaying * Hints on Repairing Fences
CHAPTER TEN ~ PREPARATION OF THE SOIL: The object to be Attained * Plows and Plowing * Sub-soiling * Trenching * Pulverizing * Rolling * Harrow and Harrowing * Cultivators and Cultivating * The Horse-Hoe * Clod-Crusher
CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ PASTURES AND MEADOWS
CHAPTER TWELVE ~ CLOVERS AND GRASSES
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ GREEN FODDER CROPS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ THE GRAIN CROPS: The Grain Crops * Grain Production of the World (Table) * Corn * History and Varieties * Soil * Preparation of the Soil * Planting * Corn-Markers * Cultivation of Corn * Harvesting * Storing * Uses of Corn * To Raise Seed-Corn * Corn Manure * Sweet Corn * To Measure Corn in Crib and Wagon Bed * "Hogging Down " Corn * Replanting * Corn on Sod Land * Disposition of Stalks * Frost-Bitten Corn * Pop Corn * Corn and Hogs * When to Sell * Diseases of Corn * Scare-Crows * Shelling and Grinding * Cobs * Yield of Corn
CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~ WHEAT: The History of Wheat * Varieties * Soils * Preparation of Soil * How to Grow Seed-Wheat * Planting Wheat * Cultivating * Drills * Manure * Amount of Seed * Time to Cut * Harvesting * Threshing * Storing * Winter Wheat * Spring Wheat * Soft and Hard Wheat * Wheat on Clover and on Corn Land * Salt on Wheat Land * Harrowing Winter Wheat in Spring * Diseases of Wheat * Propagation * Wheat Straw * Yield
CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~ OATS: History * Varieties * Uses * Manure for Oats * Soils * Cultivation * Seed Oats * Time to Sow * How to Sow: Harvesting * Diseases * Yield
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~ BARLEY
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ BUCKWHEAT
CHAPTER NINETEEN ~ RYE
CHAPTER TWENTY ~ RICE
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE ~ ROOT AND TUBER CROPS
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ~ SWEET POTATOES
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ~ JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ~ TURNIPS
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ~ CARROTS
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ~ MANGOLD BEETS
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ~ PARSNIPS
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT ~ LEGUMINOUS CROPS
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE ~ PEANUTS
CHAPTER THIRTY – SPECIAL CROPS – HOPS: History * Description * Uses * Soils and their Preparation * Varieties * Propagation and Planting * Cultivation * Picking * Plan for Hop House * How to Dry, Press and Bale * Miscellaneous
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE ~ BROOM CORN
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO ~ TOBACCO: History * Description * Varieties * Soil * Preparation and Manure * Planting * Cultivation * Worms * Priming and Topping * Suckering * Harvesting * Housing * Stripping * Bulking * Packing
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ~ FLAX
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR ~ COTTON: History * Cultivation * Soil, etc. * Seeds * Uses
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE ~ HEMP: Hemp * History of Hemp * Uses * Soil * Seed and Sowing * Harvesting * Drying and Securing * Rotting * Culture for Seed
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX ~ JUTE
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN ~ FALLOWING AND ROTATION
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ~ SEEDS
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE ~ AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS: Table showing the Total Productions, Acres Cultivated and Cash Value, for 1878 * Table showing Number of Pounds to the Bushel of the Various Farm Products in each of the States and Territories in the United States, and the Provinces of Canada
CHAPTER FORTY ~ WEEDS
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ~ INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETATION: Practical Entomology * Pests of the Field * Orchard Pests * Garden Pests * Pests of Household and abcxs Person * Animal Parasites * Commercial Insects * London Purple * Washes to Destroy Insects * Description, Method and Time of Depredation, etc., of Nearly a Hundred of the Chief Pests of the Day
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ~ THE EVERY-DAY WONDERS OF NATURE: Meteorology * Seasons * Rain * Snow and Hail * Dew * Frost * Wind * Storms * The. Barometer and Thermometer * Lightning * Weather and its Changes * Herschel's Weather Table * Superstitions * The United States Signal Service
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE ~ FARM BOOK-KEEPING
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ~ DIVISIONS OF TIME
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE ~ THE FARMER’S CALENDAR: Containing a History of Each Month, with Suggestions of Work to be Done on the Farm for Each Month in the Year
PART TWO ~ LIVE STOCK:
CHAPTER ONE ~ HORSES: History * Use * Breeds * Breeding * Training * Feeding * Care * Age * Record of Speed * Shoeing * Horsemanship * Asses * Mules * Harness * Saddles: Repairing Harness * Tethers * Driving Three Abreast * To Break a Horse from Pulling at the Halter * Pokes * Points in a Good Horse * Doherty’s Description * Diseases, Their Causes and Treatment, Including Casualties and all the Principal Ailments, with Remedies for Each * Descriptive Table of Fourteen Breeds
CHAPTER TWO ~ SWINE: History * The Wild Hog * The Domestic Hog * Old English Breeds * American Breeds * Thoroughbreds * Treatment and Care * How, When and What to Feed * Fattening * Hogs as Manure Producers * Diseases of Swine, giving Causes, Remedies and Treatment * Mixture to Preserve Health * Plans of Hog Houses and Yards, Etc. * Characteristics of a Good Hog * Ringing, Marking, Etc. * Pedigree Records * Descriptive Table of Principal Breeds * Designs and Estimates for Piggeries
CHAPTER THREE ~ SHEEP: History * Uses * Breeds * Breeding * Care * Feeding * Summer and Winter Management * Tagging * Ducking * Washing * Shearing * Dipping * Profits of Sheep-raising * Diseases, Their Symptoms, Cause, Treatment and Remedies * Wounds and Their Treatment * Miscellaneous Suggestions * Descriptive Table of Principal Breeds
CHAPTER FOUR ~ CATTLE: History * Uses * Breeds * Breeding * Rearing Calves * Care * Feeding * Fattening * Breaking and Management of Oxen * Profit in Early Maturity * Pastures * Diseases, Their Symptoms, Causes and Treatment * Age of Cattle * Points of Cattle * Weighing Cattle by Measurement (Table) * Descriptive Table Showing Characteristics of the Six Principal Breeds
CHAPTER FIVE ~ THE DAIRY: Comparative Value of Products * Milk * Cheese * Butter * Increasing Demand for Dairy Products * Suitable Soil and Situations for Dairy Farm * Selection of Cows * Points of Good Milkers * The Escutcheon * Management of Milk-Cows * Breeding for Dairy Purpose * Feeding * Shelter * Milking * Milk-cows and their Milk * Cream * Still * Churns and Churning * The Quality of Butter * Care of Milk * Cheese-press * Design and Estimate for Dairy House * Milk House and Cellar * Analyses of Milk * Milk and Butter Preservatives * Hints and Suggestions * Dairying Upon a Large Scale
CHAPTER SIX ~ POULTRY: History * Use * Breeds * Breeding * Feeding and Care * Laying * Incubation and Rearing * Fattening Fowls * Nests and Setting * Feeding Chicks * Coops * Packing for Market * Packing Eggs for Market * Diseases, Their Symptoms, Causes and Treatment * Designs and Estimates for Poultry Houses * Ducks * Turkeys * Geese * Doves * Keeping Eggs * Period of Reproduction (Table) * Descriptive table of Thirty-three Breeds
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ THE DOG: History * Cost of Keeping Dogs * Damages by Dogs * Breeds
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ BEE CULTURE AND BEE-KEEPING: History * Every Farmer mav have Bees * Hives * Location of Stands * Food for Bees * Feeding * Watering * Swarming * Wintering * Taking the Honey * Profits of Bee Culture
CHAPTER NINE ~ ANIMAL FOODS:
CHAPTER TEN ~ FISH CULTURE: History * Who May Cultivate Fish * What to Cultivate * The European Carp its History, Habits, Etc. * To Make Artificial Ponds * Natural Ponds * Where to Obtain Fish * Profits of Fish Culture
CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ CANARY BIRDS AND GOLDFISH: Native Birds * Food and Care of Canaries * Breeding * Moulting * Vermin * Diseases and Their Treatment * Aquariums
CHAPTER TWELVE ~ CASTRATION OF ANIMALS AND FOWLS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ FEEDING AND FATTENING LIVE STOCK
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ ANIMAL HEAT
PART THIRD ~ HORTICULTURE:
CHAPTER ONE ~ HORTICULTURE DEFINED: Trees in the Door-Yard * How to Plant Forest Trees * Fruit Trees for Ornament * Evergreens * Forestry * What to Plant, and How
CHAPTER TWO ~ FRUIT GROWING: Its Antiquity * In America * Profits * Propagation by Cuttings, Layering, Budding, Grafting, and Seed—How Each is Done * Grafting-Wax * Dwarf Fruit Orchards * Planting * Transplanting
CHAPTER THREE ~ CLASSES OF FRUIT: Apples, their History, Uses, Soil and Situation * Preparation and Planting * Kind of Trees * Cultivation, Fertilizers * Pruning * Gathering * Fruit Pickers, Ladders, etc. * Storing * Apricots * Pears * Plums * Peaches * Cherries * Quinces: Grapes * Currants * Raspberries * Gooseberries * Blackberries * Strawberries * Cranberries * Tropical Fruits * Forms of Fruits: Miscellaneous Suggestions * Designs for Fruit Houses
CHAPTER FOUR ~ RECOMMENDED VARIETIES OF ALL FRUITS: For Each State and Territory of the United States and the Provinces of Canada. Compiled from State and Territorial Reports, and the Catalogus of the American Pomological Society
CHAPTER FIVE ~ DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES: Tables Giving a Complete Description of Over Four Hundred Varieties of Fruits, Including all those Recommended
PART FOURTH ~ GARDENS:
CHAPTER ONE ~ HISTORY OF GARDENING: History * Benefits and Pleasures of Gardening
CHAPTER TWO ~ THE VEGETABLE GARDEN: Situation * Soil * Manures * Preparation of the Soil * Planting * Time to Plant * Transplanting * Cultivation * Watering * Selection of Seeds * Hot and Cold Frames * Rotation * Tools, Etc
CHAPTER THREE ~ VEGETABLES AND HOW TO GROW THEM: Asparagus * Beans * Beets * Borecole * Brussels Sprouts * Cabbage * Cress * Cauliflower * Corn Salad * Celery * Carrots * Chicory * Chufa * Corn * Cucumbers * Endive * Egg-Plant * Garlic * Kohl-Rabi * Lettuce * Mustard * Melons * Mushrooms * Neetmok * Onions * Okra * Parsley * Tomatoes * Parsnips * Peas * Potatoes * Salsify * Spinage * Sunflower * Peppers * Ripe * Rhubarb * Radishes * Squashes * Turnips
CHAPTER FOUR ~ HINTS ON MARKET GARDENING
CHAPTER FIVE ~ AROMATIC AND MEDICINAL HERBS: Uses and How to Grow them : Anise * Balm * Coriander * Dill * Horehound * Lavender * Rosemary * Rue * Saffron * Sage * Thyme * Wormwood * Tansy * Sweet Basil * Sweet Fennel * Sweet Marjoram * Summer Savory (Table)
CHAPTER SIX ~ FLOWER GARDENS: Utility of Flowers * Lawns * Walks * Classification of Flowers
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ ANNUAL VARIETIES
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ CLIMBING ANNUALS
CHAPTER NINE ~ EVERLASTING ANNUALS
CHAPTER TEN ~ BIENNIAL AND PERENNIAL VARIETIES
CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ FLOWER BULBS, TUBERS AND ROOTS
CHAPTER TWELVE ~ MISCELLANEOUS
PART FIFTH ~ LAW AND BUSINESS:
CHAPTER ONE ~ THE COMMON LAW
CHAPTER TWO ~ SECURITY
CHAPTER THREE ~ BANKS AND BANKING
CHAPTER FOUR ~ INSURANCE
CHAPTER FIVE ~ LAW AND BUSINESS FORMS
CHAPTER SIX ~ THE UNITED STATES PRE-EMPTION AND HOMESTEAD LAWS, COMPLETE
PART SIXTH ~ HINTS ON MONEY-MAKING:
CHAPTER ONE ~ HOW TO MAKE AND SAVE MONEY: Burning Lime * Charcoal * Baling liny * Hoop-pole Culture * Making Saurkraut * Feathers * Quails: Growing Herbs and Roots * Making Inks, Washing Fluids, Furniture Polish, Artificial Honey, Hard Soap, Cement, Glue, Shoe and Harness Varnish, Baking Powder * Tanbark * Cord-wood * Staves * Axe-handles * Brick-making * Bottoming Chairs * Cider-Making * Vinegar-making * Blasting Stumps and Rocks * Splitting Rails * Straw-mat Making * Utilizing Bones * Making Husk Mattresses * Broom-making in Detail * To Make Bee-hives, Etc
CHAPTER TWO ~ SUGAR AND THE SOURCES OF ITS SUPPLY
PART SEVENTH ~ ARCHITECTURE:
CHAPTER ONE ~ INTRODUCTORY: Where to Build: Material * Color * Style * Amount to Invest in a Dwelling * Light * Heat * Ventilation * Cellars * General Suggestions * Closets and Vaults * Barns * Warmth, Etc. * Painting * Out-buildings
CHAPTER TWO ~ HYGIENE APPLIED TO ARCHITECTURE: Location of the House and Out-buildings * Drainago * Law of Ventilation * Light * Water * Construction, Etc. * Kitchen * Sleeping-rooms * Living Room: Wall Paper and Carpets * Shade Trees * Ice, Wood and Fruit Houses * Cellars, Etc
CHAPTER THREE ~ PAINTING: Harmony of Colors: Mixing Paint * Compounding Colors: To Kill Grease Spots * Painting Window Sash * Cheap Paint for Barns * Cheap Oak Varnish and Others * Staining Woods, All Colors
CHAPTER FOUR ~ WHITEWASHING: Importance * Various Formulas for Whitewashes * Calcimining * Concrete Houses and How to Build them
CHAPTER FIVE ~ DESIGNS AND ESTIMATES: Designs and Estimates of Dwellings, Barns, and Out-Buildings, drawn and made expressly for this Work
CHAPTER SIX ~ ICE HOUSES AND ICE: Advantages and Benefits; Designs and Estimates * Cutting and Storing Ice
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ THATCHED ROOFS: How to Thatch * Miscellaneous Facts, etc
PART EIGHTH ~ THE HOUSEHOLD:
CHAPTER ONE ~ ADVICE TO PARENTS: Difficulty of their Position * How to Raise Boys * A Word to Boys * Instruction of Children
CHAPTER TWO ~ ETIQUETTE: Introductions * Calls * What to do when Visiting * Table Methods and Manners * Things to Avoid * Toilet and Dress * A Few Hints on Dress * Colors which Harmonize * Changes of Fashion * Etiquette for Children * Thirteen Good Rules of Life
CHAPTER THREE ~ CARE OF THE PERSON: The First Essential of Health * Care of the Hair, Skin, Hands, Teeth * Bathing * Recipes for Toilet Articles
CHAPTER FOUR ~ FOOD FOR MAN: Food is Force * Uses and Varieties * What Mankind Eats * Preservation of Fresh Meats, Butter, Vegetables * Responsibility of Cooks * Fretfulness, Scolding, Anger * Cheerfulness * Wastefulness * Advantages of Education * Kitchen Economy
CHAPTER FIVE ~ RECIPES FOR COOKING: Comprising Nearly Five Hundred Formulas, taken by permission of Messrs. Scribner & Co, New York, from the Famous "Common Sense in the Household" Series of Cook Books; How to Make Vegetable, Meat and Fish Soups; To Cook Fish, Oysters, Lobsters, etc.; Poultry; Meats; Mutton and Lamb; Veal; Sauces for Meat and Fish; Catsups and Flavored Vinegars; Potatoes, Cabbage, Cauliflower, and all the Vegetables; Eggs; Bread of all kinds; Corn-meal; Short-cakes; Sweet-cakes, of Every Description; Fruit-Cakes; Batter-cakes; Cookies, etc.; Pies: Puddings; Pudding Sauces; Fritters, etc.; Custards; Blanc Mange; Jellies; Creams; Ice-cream, and other Ices; Drinks; Nursery Cooking; Candies; Sundries
SOUPS: Green Pea Soup * Dried Bean Soup * Asparagus Soup * Tomato Winter Soup * Tomato Summer Soup * Potato Soup * Graham Soup * Corn Soup * Beef Soup * Veal Soup with macaroni * Mutton or Lamb Broth * Vermicelli Soup * Mock Turtle or Calf’s Head Soup * Chicken Soup * Venison Soup * Ox Tail Soup * Oyster Soup * Catfish Soup
FISH: Boiled Codfish, fresh * Boiled Codfish, salt * Codfish Balls * Codfish and Potato Stew * Cutlets of Halibut, Cod or Salmon * Boiled Mackerel, fresh * Salt Mackerel with Cream Sauce * Boiled Halibut * Baked Halibut * Halibut Steak * Boiled Salmon * Baked Salmon * Salmon Steaks * Pickled Salmon, fresh * Boiled Shad, fresh * Broiled Shad, fresh * Baked Shad * Fried Sea Bass * Baked Salmon-Trout * Boiled Salmon-Trout * Salmon Pudding * Fried Pickerel * Cream Pickerel * Stewed Catfish * Fried Catfish * Stewed Eels * Chowder * Lobster Croquettes * Deviled Crab * Soft Crabs * Stewed Oysters * Fried Oysters * Oyster Fritters * Scalloped Oysters * Broiled Oysters * Oyster Omelet * Oyster Pie * Pickled Oysters * Oyster Pates * Panned Oysters * Clam Fritters
POULTRY: Roast Turkey * Turkey Scallop * Roast Chickens * Roast Chickens and Pork * Fricasseed Chicken, white * Fricasseed Chicken, brown * Roulettes of Chicken * Chicken Pot Pie * Baked Chicken Pie * Chicken Croquettes * Chicken Pudding * Chicken and Ham * Roast Goose * Roast Duck * Stewed Duck * Stewed Pigeons
MEATS: Roast Beef * Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding * Broiled Beef-steak * Beef Pudding * Beef-steak and Onions * Beef a la Mode * Breakfast Stew of Beef * Crust for Meat Pies * Beef Pie with Potato Crust * Ramakins * Boiled Corn Beef * Beef’s Tongue * Roast Mutton * Boiled Mutton * Mutton Stew * Mutton Chops * Mutton or Lamb Rechauffe * Roast Veal * Fillet * Mock Pigeons * Veal Pies * Veal Scallop * Veal Pates * Calf’s Head * Sweet-Breads * Croquettes of Calf Brains * Calf’s Liver * Imitation Pates de Foie Gras * Pork Pot Pie * Sausage * Quails Roasted with Ham * Boiled Ham * Glazed Ham * Barbecued Ham * Ham and Eggs * Fried Apples and Bacon * Pork and Beans * Brunswick Stew * Grouse Roasted with Bacon * Game Pie * Wild Pigeons * Wild Ducks
SAUCES FOR MEAT AND FISH: Melted or Brown Butter * Oyster Sauce * Butter or Mashed Potato Syringe * Maitre d’Hotel Sauce * Cauliflower Sauce * Apple Sauce * Cranberry Sauce
CATSUPS AND FLAVORED VINEGARS: Made Mustard * Tomato Catsup * Ever-Ready Catsup
SALADS: Lobster Salad * Chicken Salad * Lettuce Salad * Summer Salad * Water Cresses * Cabbages or Cold Slaw * Tomato Salad * Celery Salad * Beet Root Salad * Salmon Salad * Cheese Salad or Mock Crab * Oyster Salad
VEGETABLES: Mashed Potatoes * How to stew old potatoes * Stewed Potatoes for Breakfast * Potato Puff * Potato Croquettes * Fried Potatoes * Potatoes a la Crème * Stuffed Potatoes * Potato Chips * Potatoes a la Lyonnaise * Potato Cakes * Potatoes a l’Italienne * Boiled Sweet Potatoes * Fried Sweet Potatoes * Boiled Cabbage * Ladies’ Cabbage * Sauerkraut * Boiled Cauliflower * Cauliflower with Cream Sauce * Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts * Mashed turnips * Spinage a la Crème * Green Peas * Pea Fritters or Cakes * Asparagus * Asparagus in Ambush * Stewed Onions * Stewed Tomatoes * Stuffed Baked Tomatoes * Scalloped Tomatoes * Scallop of Tomatoes and Green Corn * Baked Tomatoes * Tomato Omelette with Cheese * Succotash * Green Corn Pudding * Green Corn Fritters or Cakes * Stewed Green Corn * Baked Corn * Salsify or Oyster Plant * Fried Salsify or Mock Oysters * Fried Egg Plant * Stewed Carrots * French or String or Snap Beans * Neetmok * Lima and Butter Beans * Fried Parsnips * Sea Kale * Winter Squash * Stewed Celery * Hominy Croquettes * Baked Hominy * Rice Croquettes * Baked Macaroni * Macaroni a la Crème
EGGS: Poached Eggs a la Crème * Baked Eggs * Fricasseed Eggs * Scrambled Eggs * Scalloped Eggs * Poached Eggs with Sauce * Eggs upon Toast * Eggs au Lit * Egg Baskets * Omelette * Egg Balls for soup * Apple Omelet * Bonny Clabber or Loppered Milk * Mountain Custard or Junket * Cheese Fondue * Cottage Cheese
BREAD, CORNBREAD AND BATTER CAKES: Yeast, Hop * Yeast, Potato * Yeast Cakes * Bread Sponge, potato * Bread Sponge, plain * Family Bread, white * Family Bread, brown * Boston Brown Bread * Rye Bread * Milk Bread * French Rolls * Risen Biscuit * Sally Lunn * Mrs. E’s Biscuit * Graham Biscuit * Sweet Rusk * Dried Rusk * Wafers * Crumpets * Graham Muffins * Queen Muffins * Cream Muffins * “Mother’s Muffins” * Charlotte Muffins * Rice Muffins * Nonpareil Corn Bread * Buckwheat Cakes * Flannel Cakes * Cornmeal Flapjacks * Graham Cakes * Grandpa’s Favorites * Rice Cakes * Cream Eggs * “Mother’s” Waffles
CAKES: Shortcake * Strawberry Shortcake * Easter or Hot Cross Buns * Cake * Icing * Almond Icing * Martha’s Cake * Mrs. M.’s Cup Cake * Cream Cake * Cocoanut Cake * Cream Rose Cake * Lady Cake * Sister Mag’s Cake * Dover Cake * Chocolate Cake * Caramel Cake * Marbled Cake * Cocoanut and Almond Cake * Ellie’s Cake * Mrs. M.’s Sponge Cake * Pound Cake * Nut Cake * Gold Cake * Silver Cake * Huckleberry Cake * Corn Starch Cake * White Cake * Mrs. B.’s Cookies * New Year’s Cake * Ginger Soaps * Aunt Margaret’s Crullers * Soft Gingerbread * Sponge Gingerbread * Boston Cream Cakes
PIES: Family Pie Crust * French Puff Paste * Mince Pies * Apple Mince Meat * Mock Mince Meat * Apple Pie #1 * Apple Pie #2 * Apple Custard Pie * Pumpkin Pie * Apple Meringue Pies * Squash Pie * Sweet Potato Pie * Lemon Pie * Lemon Cream Pie * Cocoanut Custard Pie * Corn Starch Custard Pie * Peach Pie * Currant and Raspberry Tart * Strawberry Pie * Cream Raspberry Tart * Rhubarb Pie
PUDDINGS: Baked Puddings * Apple Meringue Pudding * Sweet Apple Pudding * Pippin Pudding * Brown Betty * Apple and Tapioca Pudding * Baked Apple Dumplings * Tapioca Pudding * Corn Starch Pudding * Corn Starch Meringue * Corn Meat Fruit Pudding * Bread Pudding * Fruit Bread Pudding * Alice’s Pudding * Seymour Pudding * The Queen of Puddings * Cracker Pudding * Cracker Suet Pudding * Peach Leche Cream * Rice Pudding * Rice Pudding with Eggs * Jam Pudding * Cottage Pudding * Savory Rice Pudding * Lemon Pudding * Cocoanut Pudding * Macaroni Pudding * Neopolitan Pudding * Minced Pudding * Huckleberry Pudding * Plain Boiled Pudding * Apple Dumplings * Jam Roley Poley
FRITTERS, PANCAKES, ETC: Fritters * Apple Fritters * Orange Fritters * Jelly Cake Fritters
SWEET OR PUDDING SAUCES: Hard Sauce * Bee Hive Sauce * Brandy Sauce * White Wine Sauce * Lemon Sauce * Fruit Pudding Sauce * Jelly Sauce No. 1 * Jelly Sauce No. 2
CUSTARDS, BLANC MANGE, JELLIES AND CREAMS: Quaking Custard * Floating Custard * Spanish Cream * Snow Custard * French Tapioca Custard * Corn Starch Blanc Mange * Arrow Root Blanc Mange * Almond Blanc Mange * Jaune Mange * Neapolitan Blancmange * Velvet Blanc Mange * Charlotte Russe * A Tipsy Charlotte * Pine Apple Ambrosia * Apples and Jelly * Whipped Syllabub * Wine Jelly * Cider Jelly * Lemon Jelly and Light Cake * Bird’s Nest in Jelly * Variegated Jelly
ICE CREAM AND OTHER ICES: Self-Freezing Ice Cream * Chocolate Ice Cream * Lemon Ice Cream * Pine Apple Ice Cream * Peach Ice Cream * Raspberry or Strawberry Ice Cream * Frozen Custard with the Fruit Frozen In * Tutti Frutti Ice Cream * Lemon Ice * Orange Ice
DRINKS: Coffee * How to make Coffee, boiled * How to make Coffee without boiling * Tea * Chocolate * Cocoa Nibs or Shells * Prepared Cocoa * Currant and Raspberry Shrub * Raspberry Vinegar * Blackberry Cordial * Elderberry Wine * Cranberry Wine * Currant Wine * Jamaica Ginger Beer * Lemonade or Sherbet * Lemon Shrub * Orangeade * Strawberry Sherbet * Strawberry Shrub * Sherry Cobbler * Nectar * Egg Nog
CHAPTER SIX ~ PRESERVING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ~ CANNING: Popularity of the Process * Essentials of Canning * What Cans to Use * Preparation of the Fruit * Sealing the Cans * Storing Canned Goods * Canning Peaches, Pears, Plums, Crab Apples, Quinces, and Berries * Canning Corn, Tomatoes, Peas, Onions, Asparagus, Beans, Succotash * Furnace for canning on a Large Scale
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ DRYING FRUIT: History and Utility * Methods of Drying by Sun and by Artificial Heat * A Home-made Dryer * Preparation of the Fruit * Safeguards Against Insects and Worms: To Dry with Sugar * Keeping Dried Fruits * To Dry Sweet Corn * Drying Apples for Stock
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ PRESERVES, JELLIES, JAMS, MARMALADES: Cans, Jars, Bottles, Crocks, Jugs * Syrup * Preparation of the Fruit * To Make Preserves of Peaches, Citrons, Tomatoes, Quinces, Apples, Grapes, Crab Apples, Cherries, Watermelons, etc. * Marmalades and Jams, from- Oranges, Peaches, Apples, Pears. Apricots. Quinces, and the Berries * Jellies * Requisites * A Jelly Stand * The Process * Apple, Crab Apple, Quince, Peach, Raspberry, Currant, Cherry, and Gooseberry Jellies
CHAPTER NINE ~ PICKLES: Suggestions * Cucumber, or Gherkin * Mangoes * Cabbage * Onions * Nasturtium Seeds * Butternuts and Walnuts * Cauliflower * Green Tomatoes * Sweet Tomato * Ripe Tomato * Plums, Pears, Peaches, and other Fruits
CHAPTER TEN ~ HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT: Order and System * Washing * A Handy Clothes-line * Starching: Ironing, Etc.—Entertainment of Visitors * Suggestions to Young Housekeepers * Marketing * Carving
PART NINTH ~ OUT-DOOR SPORTS AND PASTIMES:
CHAPTER ONE ~ SWIMMING: Floating on the Back * Swimming on the Back * Motion of the Legs: Swimming on the Chest * Breathing * The Side Stroke * Thrusting * Treading Water * Swimming Dog-Fashion * Diving * Shooting Rapids * General Remarks * Saving a Drowning Person
CHAPTER TWO ~ GUNS AND GUNNING: Tin * First Gun * How to Fire * To Shoot Game * The Rifle
CHAPTER THREE ~ TRAPPING: The Steel Trap * Home-made Traps * Figure Four * The Dead-fall * The Quail Trap: "Figure Four" Trap * Rabbit Traps * Weasel and Mink Trap * Wild Turkey Pen * Eureka Quail Trap * Mole Traps * Barrel Rat Trap * A Simple Trap * Mice Traps * Muskrat Traps * Skunk Traps * Weasel, Rat and Vermin Traps * Prairie Chicken Trap * The Spring-gun * Snares * Baiting * Setting * Skinning * Tanning, Etc
CHAPTER FOUR ~ TAXIDERMY: Preparation of Birds: Skinning Birds * Stuffing * The French Method * Mounting Dried Skins * Preparation and Mounting of Animals * Preservation of Insects * To Make Papier Mache, and Its Uses
CHAPTER FIVE ~ KITES: History * How to Make, Etc.
CHAPTER SIX ~ FISHING: Tackle * Bait * Hooks, Etc. * Practice of Angling * Trolling * Spinning * Fishing in Winter * Books of Reference * Amusement with Crows
PART TENTH ~ MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS:
CHAPTER ONE ~ WATER AND THE SOURCES OF ITS SUPPLY: Water and the Sources of its Supply.—Wells and Cisterns * To Construct a Well from the Top Downward * Driven Wells * Wells and Wind-mills * A Cheap Stock Well * A Well Without Walls * Filters * To Soften Water * Water for Destitute Regions * Pumps * Water Gates * Water-wheels
CHAPTER TWO ~ FARM SCALES
CHAPTER THREE ~ RURAL ROADS AND BRIDGES: Public Roads * How to Make a Road * Width of Road * Hints on Repairing Roads * Farm Roads * Bridges and Various Methods of Their Construction Illustrated
CHAPTER FOUR ~ CHANGING THE CURRENT OF STREAMS: With Cribs and with Piles
CHAPTER FIVE ~ CURED MEATS: Slaughtering Cattle and Hogs * Frames for Suspending Carcasses * Dry Salt Curing * Cutting * To make the Best Hams * Breakfast Bacon * Sugar Cured Meats * Pickled Pork * Canvassing Meats * Curing Tongues * Curing Beef and Mutton * To Preserve Smoked Meats and Fresh Pork Indefinitely * Lard * A Cheap Smoke House. Table showing Weights of Parts of the Body, separate and combined, of Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs. after Death, with Chemical Analysis
CHAPTER SIX ~ FARMERS’ CLUBS
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ VARIOUS FARM HINTS: A Cheap Water-Cooler * Various Step Ladders, and How to Make them * Grindstones * A Good Wagon Seat * Rope Knots Illustrated * How to make a Good Hand-Cart * Feed-Cutters, Horse-Powers * Wagon Jacks * Paint-Brush Tub * Castor for Heavy Furniture * Feed Rack
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ GENERAL RECIPES: Glue * Varnish * Artificial Honey * Tightening Wagon Tires * How To Clean Kid Gloves * How to Cure Snake-bites * How To Make Fowls Lay * How To Tell the Sex of Eggs * A Good Healing Salve * Liniments * Ointments * Leather Preservatives * Fire-Proof Paint * How To Prevent Iron and Steel from Rusting * Washing Fluid * Soaps * How To Mend Tinware without Solder * How To Destroy Weeds in Walks * How To Drive Away Rats * How To Dye Fabrics of All Kinds and Different Colors * Analine Dyes
PART ELEVENTH ~ MEDICAL DEPARTMENT:
CHAPTER ONE ~ HEALTH AND DISEASE
CHAPTER TWO ~ LAWS OF HEALTH
CHAPTER THREE ~ CLOTHING
CHAPTER FOUR ~ AIR
CHAPTER FIVE ~ EXERCISE
CHAPTER SIX ~ MORALS
CHAPTER SEVEN ~ PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON HYGIENE
CHAPTER EIGHT ~ STIMULATION: Stimulation.— In Childhood * In Adults * Uselessness of Stimulation * Some of the Evils of Stimulation * Cost and Consumption of Tea, Coffee, Tobacco, Opium and Liquors, Tables * Increase of Disease Induced or Aggravated by Stimulants (Table) * Narcotics, Growth of Their Use * Liquors, Increase of Their Consumption, Etc
PART TWELFTH ~ THE SICK ROOM:
CHAPTER ONE ~ CARE OF THE SICK: What is Disease? * Odors * Air * How to Ventilate Sick Rooms * Contagious Diseases * Drainage of Village and Country Homes * Disinfectants and Cleaning * Sources of Impurities * Heat in Sickness * Light in the Sick Room * Disagreeable Sights to be Avoided * Senses of Hearing and Feeling * Sleep, Drinks, Food for the Sick * Milk for Infants * The Sick Chamber * Bed and Bed-Clothes * How to Take Care of the Sick * Talking Nurses * Bathing the Sick * Pillows and Breathing * Chamber Utensils * Little Things * Fumigators
CHAPTER TWO ~ COOKERY FOR THE SICK: Broths, Jellies, Gruels, Drinks, Toasts, Breads, Etc.: Herb Teas, Etc
CHAPTER THREE ~ WHAT MAY BE DONE WITHOUT A DOCTOR: General Suggestions * Trichina Spiralis * folds, and How to Avoid them * Dyspepsia * The Clinical Thermometer * Medical Uses of Water
CHAPTER FOUR ~ DIGESTION: Its Mystery * Protection Against Abuse * Organs and Process of Digestion * Indigestion, Dreams, Etc. * Double Page Illustration of Digestive Organs, with Explanations,.Etc
CHAPTER FIVE ~ ACCIDENTS: Coolness in Case of * Explanation of Healing Process in Cuts, Broken Bones, Etc. * Boils, How Caused * Burns and Scalds, Wounds * Drowning: Hanging or Strangling * Fainting and Fits * Freezing * Sprains. Dislocations and Fractures * Sunstroke * Amputations * Poisons and Their Antidotes
PART THIRTEENTH ~ HOME MEDICATION:
CHAPTER ONE ~ INTRODUCTORY: Patent Medicines * Indisposition * Symptoms and Signs of Disease * The Tongue * The Heart and Nerves * Blood Circulation, Nutrition, Sympathetic Nerves, Etc. * The _ Pulse * Breathing * Treatment in Fevers: Ignorant Meddling in Disease *' The Stomach * Description of the Most Common Diseases, giving Causes, Symptoms and Directions for Successful Home Treatment * Action of Medicines, Etc
CHAPTER TWO ~ DISEASES OF WOMEN: Their Nature, Cause and General Treatment
CHAPTER THREE ~ PRESCRIPTIONS: Home Administration of Medicines * Description of the most Common and Important Drugs and Medicines, with Mixtures and Doses for the Various Diseases * Prescriptions for Cough Syrups, Fever, Diarrhea, Colic, Indigestion. Flux, Etc.. Salves, Ointments" and Liniments, Miscellaneous Prescriptions, Etc * Bathing: Closing Observations
CHAPTER FOUR ~ DEFORMITIES: Prevalence of Deformities * Causes: Birth Marks and Defects * Fashionable Deformities. Accidental and Intentional: Civilization and Deformity * Mechanical Treatment, why Necessary * Muscular Contraction, Theory of, Power and Relation to Deformity. Etc. * Hip Joint Disease, Spinal Disease, Club Feet, Hare Lip, Bow Legs, Tumors, Paralysis, Diseases of the Bones, Including Knee, Hip, Etc., with Symptoms and Methods of Treatment
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