Nelson's home comforts / by Mary Hooper.

  • Mary Hooper
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nelson's home comforts / by Mary Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * to any articles of the kind now in the market, while the price places them within the reach of all classes of consumers. Nelson’s Gelatine having now been favourably known all over the world for nearly half-a-century, it is unnecessary to do more than observe that our efforts are constantly directed to supplying a per- fectly pure article, always of the same strength and quality. When Russian isinglass was first introduced into this country, the prejudices against its use on the part of our great-grandmothers were violent and extreme ; for those worthy ladies would not believe that some unfamiliar substance, of the origin of which they were either ignorant or doubtful, could form an efficient substitute for the well-known calves’ feet and cow heels, from which they had always been in the habit of making their jellies and blanc-manges. By degrees, however, the Gelatine made its way, and at length superseded the old system entirely; and its popularity is demonstrated by the fact that the works at Emscote, near Warwick, cover nearly five acres. * * I
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