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Dust-bin with common sifter.
Wooden bin Sifter ... ... ... 000 ... ... ... ... ... 880 600 ... ... ... £1 10 05 1 15 Dust-bin with sifting cover.
Wooden bin 800 ... ... ... ... ... 650 ... £1 10 Sifter with handle ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 15 - 2 15 Kent's patent cinder sifter and dust-bin.
Complete, 1st size ... ... ... ... ... 863 £3 3 Ditto, 2nd ditto 44 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Coal cellars should be built in the most convenient situation for access both from without and from within; and they should, if possible, be of such dimensions as to contain from six months' to a year's consumption, because coal is almost always far cheaper in summer than during the winter season, and therefore a stock should be laid in. It is a good plan to divide this space into separate sections, so that each part shall be cleared off, leaving no small coal, before the next is commenced. 35. THE LARDER, which is the place set apart for keeping fresh provisions in, and also, in most cases, for the salting of pork, beef, &c., should be placed where it can have a thorough draught, and where it is sheltered from the sun. A northern aspect is therefore the most suitable, or, next to that, an easterly one. The thorough draught cannot always be procured directly; but if it cannot in that way, a large air-drain may be carried under the floor to the opposite side of the house, where a grating may be fixed, and thus a free draught may be obtained. Underground larders are seldom efficient for the keeping of meat, because this perfect draught is not attainable except in windy weather, when there is little difficulty in effecting its preservation; but in moist and muggy weather the air is quite stagnant in the basement story of a town house, and consequently, though tolerably cool, the air is not rapidly changed, and putrefaction goes on without let or hindrance. To fit up a larder for a small house merely requires a number of deal shelves and a door, of which the panels are replaced by plates of perforated zinc, of a pattern sufficiently close to prevent the entrance of nies, and yet large enough to admit the air freely. Where there is also a window, it should in like manner be guarded by similar sheets of zinc. 36. THE UTENSILS required for the cookery of each department, will be fully described under the different heads of Roasting, Baking, Boiling, Stewing, &c.
CHAP. III. - THE PREPARATION OF FOOD BY KEEPING.