The housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook : being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... To which is added, the complete art of carving ... Together with directions for marketing and the management of the kitchen and fruit garden ... [etc.].

  • Henderson, W. A. (William Augustus)
Date:
[1804?]
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Credit: The housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook : being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... To which is added, the complete art of carving ... Together with directions for marketing and the management of the kitchen and fruit garden ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fon, and the beds or (hoots (hould be gathered two or three times a week, or according as they advance in growth, from two or three to five or fix inches high, cutting them with a ]ong narrow knife about three inches within the ground. Top your earlv beans that are in the bloflbm; alfo the fuc- ceeding crops as they come with (lower, to make the pods fet ,fbon and fine. Plant out fome early fpring raifed plants of brocoli, at two feet diftance. Prick out young ones, and fow a good crop to plant out for winter and ipring. Leave fome of the bed old plants for feed. Hoe between your cabbages, cut up all the weeds, loofen the ground a moderate depth, and draw earth about the Items of the plants. The early cabbage?, which are forwarded in growth, and fulled hearts, mud have their leaves tied together with an ofier twig, or bafs, to promote or haden their cabbaging, and to render them white and tender. Likewife plant out fome dout, fpring-raifed red cabbage plants, for autumn and winter fupply. ' Thin your carrots, and cleanfe them from weeds, either by hand-weeding, or fmall hoeing, leaving thofe intended to draw- young in fummer, four or five inches apart, but the main crops mud be thinned fix or eight inches. Likewife hoe between your cauliflowers, and draw the earth to their dems. As alfo be- tween rows of beans, peas, kidney-beans, and all other plants in rows. Thin the fpring-fowed crops of lettuces, and plant out pro- per fupplies of the different forts a foot didance. Tie up early'cos-lettuces to forward their cabbaging. Weed the general fpring-fowed crops of onions, and thin the plants where too thick. Leave fome of the bulbous kind of winter onions at proper didances for early bulbing next month. Continue fowing once a fortnight marrowfats, and other large kinds of peafe ; alfo fome of the bed hotfpurs, or other forts approved of, to furnifli a regular fucceflion of the differ- ent forts. You may likewife continue to fow radiflies in open fituations, once a week or fortnight, in moderate quantities, for fucceflion crops tjiis and the following month. Thofe of former fowings in the lad month, where come up thick, mud be thinned. Sow fallading of the different forts, as lettuce, creffes, muf- tard, radifh, rape, and purflane, to have a proper fucceflion to cut while young. ' • Plant out fome of the dronged early favoy plants, in an open fituation, iwo feet and a half afunder, for autumn, &c. u