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Cast-iron (roasting, baking, boiling, and steaming) full size Ditto Ditto Ditto ... ditto smallest 2800 1600 ... ditto third size, Fig. 72, B. 800 ... with open fire also Fig. 72, C. 900 small, Fig. 72, D. 2 10 0 ...

Wrought-iron 32. THE BACK-KITCHEN OR SCULLERY, when it is used for brewing or washing, as well as for the ordinary kitchen purposes, should always be external to the house if possible, in order that the steam may escape through the roof. For the water a sink is required, which consists of a flat platform of tiles or bricks, about three or four feet wide, by two feet six inches, with a slightly raised and rounded edge of oak-quartering. This communicates with a drain by means of a bell-trap, over which should be a water-cock if there is a cistern; and when there is a supply of hot water, that also should be laid on. If the house is self-dependent for its water supply, a pump of each sort is generally fixed in the back-kitchen, one of which draws up the spring water from the well, and the other from the soft-water cistern. Besides these pumps, there are usually in well-appointed houses a copper and an open fireplace, to be used as an extra fire when large dinner parties are given, and when, for instance, the close stove is fixed in the kitchen, in which roasting is not capable of being carried on to that degree of perfection which is then desired. Galvanized iron boilers are sometimes set instead of coppers, but they are liable to "iron-mould" linen boiled in them, and they are therefore objected to. In other respects that is, for brewing or for cooking-this kind of iron is quite equal if not superior to copper, as it is not liable to be dissolved by acids like copper; or, if acted on, it is not injurious to the system, but rather advantageous. The list of back-kitchen fittings, therefore, will stand as under, with the prices according to the nature of the ménage:-