The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / By John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern.
- Farley, John, active 18th century
- Date:
- 1789
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / By John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 4-° ] APPENDIX. SECTION r. i Confiderations on Culinary Poifons. THOUGH we have already, in different parts of this work, occasionally reminded the houfe-keeper and cook of the fatal confequences attending coppers and faucepans not being properly tinned, yet we {hall here enter on a particular enquiry into the nature and property of culinary poifons, for the information and fa- tisfadtion of thofe who may with to have a more perfedt knowledge of fuch important matters. By the ufe of copper veffels for dreffing our food, we are daily expofed to the danger of poifon ; and even the very air of a kitchen, abounding with oleaginous and faline particles, difpofes thofe veffels to diffolution before they be ufed. Copper, when handled, yields an offen- five fmell; and, if touched with the tongue, has a (harp pungent take, and even excites a naufea. Verdigrife is nothing but a folution of this metal by vegetable acids; and it is well known, that a very fmall quantity of this folution will produce chokes, vomitings, intolerable thirft, univerfal convulfions, and other dangerous fymp- toms. If thefe effedts, and the prodigious divifibility of this metal be confidered, there can be no doubt of its being a violent and fubtle poifon. Water, by Band- ing forne time in a copper veffel, becomes impregnated with verdigrife, as may be demonftrated by throwing into it a fmall quantity of any volatile alkali, which will immediately tinge it with a paler or deeper blue, in pro- portion to the ruff contained in the water. Vinegar,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2152967x_0484.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
