Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.
- William Cobbett
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![ness and of exertion. Beset with wants, having a mind continually harassed with fears of starvation, who can act with energy, who can calmly think? To provide a good living therefore, for himself and family, is the very first duty of every man. “ Two things,” says Agur, “ have I asked; deny me them not be- “ fore I die: remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with “ food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny “ thee ; or lest I be poor and steal.” 19. A good living-, therefore, a competence,is the first thing to be desired and to be sought after; and, if this little work should have the effect of aiding only a small portion of the Labouring Classes in securing that competence, it will afford great gratification to their ■ friend, Wm. cobbett. Kensington, 19. July, 182].. • • . BREWING BEER. - » % 20. Before I proceed to give any directions about brewing, let me mention some of the inducements to do the thing. In former times, to set about to show to Englishmen that it was good for them to brew beer in their houses would have been as impertinent as gravely to insist, that they ought to endeavour not to lose their breath; for, in those times (only forty years ago) to have a house and not to brew was a rare thing indeed. Mr. Ellman, an old man and a large farmer, in Sussex,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21527489_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
