The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce.

  • Pierce, Charles
Date:
1863
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Credit: The household manager : being a practical treatise upon the various duties in large or small establishments, from the drawing-room to the kitchen / by Charles Pierce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The second mode of heating is on the principle of the tea-urn of some years’ standing, and partakes of the like imperfection ; since, if the heater be of new iron, and made red-hot, and nearly filling the heater- case, accidents will sometimes arise therefrom pro- ductive of considerable annoyance. An instance of the cloth being burnt occurred at the Duke of Buck- ingham’s. The third process of heating is by the sand-bath, or sand-heater, which, for durability and freedom from violent heat, is considered preferable to either of the foregoing modes. The fourth kind of heating is by the medium of hot-water dishes. The hot water is contained within an almost air-tight vessel, and has but a very gradual descending heat, and is of the present modes the ])est. If provocatives are used before dinner, the prefer- ence is frequently given to oysters, which, when eaten .saline and fresh, free from mawkishness and disease, become very effective. Some prefer the French oyster; whilst, on the other hand, many on the Con- tinent i^refer the English native oysters so much, that considerable exports of them are made annually. Many, considering that the four months spelt without an r are unfavourable to the condition of the oysters, avoid them in May, June, July, and August; yet, in England, the oyster season opens on the 1st of
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