A treatise on the art of making good and wholesome bread of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and other farinaceous grain. Exhibiting the alimentary properties and chemical constitution of different kinds of bread corn, and of the various substitutes used for bread, in different parts of the world / By Fredrick Accum.
- Friedrich Accum
- Date:
- 1821
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the art of making good and wholesome bread of wheat, oats, rye, barley, and other farinaceous grain. Exhibiting the alimentary properties and chemical constitution of different kinds of bread corn, and of the various substitutes used for bread, in different parts of the world / By Fredrick Accum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘powerful narcotic), daily taken into the stomach, together with an intoxicating iquor, is highly more efficacious than it would be without the liquor. ‘The fiect may be gradual; anda strong constitution, especially if it be assisted vith constant and hard labour, may counteract the destructive consequences erhaps for many years. But it never fails to shew its baneful effects at last.” 'P. 209, 210.) ‘We now come to the business of another small portion of the ommunity, namely, the tea-drinkers. Perhaps the fellowing escriptions will assist them in forming a diagnosis. All the samples of spurious green tea (nineteen in number) which I have xamined, were coloured with carbonate of copper, (a poisonous substance), nd not by means of verdigrise, or copperas.” (P. 240.) ‘ Mr. Twining sserts, that ‘ the leayes of spurious tea are boiled in a copper, with copperas ind sheep’s dung.’”? (P.240. Note.) ‘ Tea rendered poisonous by carbonate f copper, speedily imparts to liquid ammonia, a fine sapphire blue tinge. It is nly necessary to shake up ina stopped vial, for a few minutes, a tea-spoonful f the suspected leaves, with about two table-spoonstul of liquid ammonia, iluted with half its bulk of water. The supernatant liquid will exhibit a fine ue colour, if tlie minutest quantity of copper be present. Green tea, coloured vith, carbonate of copper, when thrown into water impregnated with sulphu- etted hydrogen gas, immediately acquires a black colour. Genuine green tea, uffers no change from the action of these tests.” (P. 241.) “The following extracts may perhaps prove interesting . to rdandy-drinkers, * ¢It is a custom among retailing distillers, which I have not taken notice of n this directory, to put one third or one fourth part of proof molasses brandy, roportionably, to what rum they dispose of; which cannot be distinguished, ut by an extraordinary palate, and does not at all lessen the body or proof of 1e goods ; but makes them about two shillings a gallon cheaper; and must be ell mixed and incorporated together in your retailing cask. But you should eep some of the best rum, not adulterated, to please your customers, whose udgment and palate must be humoured.—When you are to draw a sample of ods to show a person that has judgment in the proof, do not draw your goods nto a phial to be tasted, or make experiment of the strength thereof that way, ecause the proof will not hold except the goods be exceedingly strong. But raw. the pattern of goods either into a glass from the cock, to run very smal], r rather draw off a small quantity into a little pewter pot, and pour it into your lass, extending your potas high above the glass as you can without wasting iy Which makes the goods carry a better head abundantly, than if the same oods were to be put and tried in a phial—You must be so prudent as to make distinction of the persons you have to deal with. What goods you sell to entlemen for their vn use, who require a great deal of attendance, and as uch for time of payment, you: must take a considerably greater price than of thers ; what goods you self tq persons where you believe there is a manifest, at least some hazard of your money, you may safely sell for more than com- om profit; what goods you sell to the poor, especially medicinally, (as man your goods are sanative), be as compassionate as the’ cases require.—All randies, whether French, Spanish, or English, being proof goods, will lit of one pint of liquor’ (water) § to each gallon, to be made up and incor- orated therewith in your cask, for retail, or selling smaller quantities. And ] persons that insist upon having proof goods, which not one in twenty under. and, you must supply out of what goods are not so reduced, though at.a gher price.” (P, 267—270.) : | ik](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33278817_0179.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
