Home Comforts: Or, Things Worth Knowing in Every Household : Being a Digest of Facts Established by Science, Observation and Practical Experience, Respecting the Important Art of Living Well and Cheaply, Preserving Health and Prolonging LifeEdwin Troxell Freedley Claxton, Remsen & Heffelfinger, 1879 - 360 páginas |
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Página 187 - There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling, as it is well called ; the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance, with the adhesive oleaginous.
Página 216 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine...
Página 342 - When you are awakened by this uneasiness, and find you cannot easily sleep again, get out of bed, beat up and turn your pillow, shake the bedclothes well, with at least twenty shakes, then throw the bed open, and leave it to cool...
Página 223 - I shall not require any more for the next six years to come. The reason is, that I treat them in the following manner : I put a pound of tallow and half a pound of rosin in a pot on the fire ; when melted and mixed, I warm the boots and apply the hot stuff with a painter's brush, until neither the lole nor the upper leather will suck in any more.
Página 339 - If one goes to sleep on the left side, the operation of emptying the stomach of its contents is more like drawing water from a well. After going to sleep, let the body take its own position. If you sleep on your back, especially soon after a hearty meal, the weight of the digestive organs, and that of the food resting on the great vein of the body, near the back-bone, compresses it, and arrests the flow of the blood more or less. If the arrest is partial, the sleep is disturbed, and there are unpleasant...
Página 333 - Macbeth does murder sleep"— the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast,— Lady M.
Página 182 - WILD DUCKS. Nearly all wild ducks are liable to have a fishy fla-vor, and when handled by inexperienced cooks, are sometimes uneatable from this cause. Before roasting them, guard against this by parboiling them with a small carrot, peeled, put within each. This will absorb the unpleasant taste. An onion will have the same effect ; but, unless you mean to use onion in the stuffing, the carrot is preferable. In my own kitchen I usually put in the onion, considering a suspicion of garlic a desideratum...
Página 140 - We give the formula from our own experience, and from instructions received in a land where " hog and hominy " are well understood : Wash slightly in cold water, and soak twelve hours in tepid, soft water, then boil slowly from three to six hours, in same water, with plenty more added from time to time, with great care to prevent burning. Don't salt while cooking, as that or hard water will harden the corn. So it will peas or beans, green or dry, and rice also. When done, add butter and salt ; or...
Página 40 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.