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.

Rural And Domestic Economy

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

Deners

1. Perform every operation in the proper season. 2. Perform every operation in the proper manner. This is to be acquired in part by…

To Manage a Dairy (Quarts of water of the same)

quarts of water of the same temperature as above, and well knead the whole mass into a smooth dough. This is hard work if done well. Then…

To Manage a Dairy (Directions to the Cow-Feeder)

Directions to the Cow-Feeder. Go to the cow-stall at six o'clock in the morning, winter and summer; give each cow half a bushel of the…

Poultry

evening. You must be very careful in order to guard against the distemper to which they are liable, in the choice of a situation for…

To Make Ice

in the bottom, about the size of a wine-cork. | ground where the peats are to be placed; then set Place inside of it a wooden tub, shaped…

To Make Bread

tablespoonful of cream; mix them well together, | little more than milk warm. Put in salt sufficient. and place them in the room, on a…

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