Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Qualities Of Food

5 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

In Common Use

Beef. When this is the flesh of a bullock of middle age, it affords good and strong nourishment, and is peculiarly well adapted to those…

Brewing and Distillation (Resemble much in their effects)

Resemble much in their effects the sweet kind of apples, but have more of a laxative quality, and greater tendency to flatulence. Cherries…

Fermentation

Before proceeding to the consideration of the manufacture of wines, beer, and spirits, a general survey of the subject of fermentation will…

Brewing and Distillation (Casks of different sizes)

casks of different sizes; a large funnel; two or three clean pails, and a hand-pump. for an indefinite period of time. To induce fer- |…

Brewing (To fit up a small Brew-house)

To fit up a small Brew-house. Provide a copper holding full two-thirds of the quantity proposed to be brewed, with a gaugestick to…

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