An Encyclopæaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected with Housekeeping As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture; a General Account of the Animal and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Breads Materials Employed in Dress and the Toilet; Business of the Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel Carriages; Preservation of Health, Domestic Medicines, &c.[ &c, 2권Harper & Brothers, 1855 - 1238페이지 |
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732 페이지 - And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man ; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
702 페이지 - We shall never, certainly, be able to discover how men were led to the use of the hot infusion of the leaves of a certain shrub (tea), or of a decoction of certain roasted seeds (coffee). Some cause there must be, which would explain how the practice has become a necessary of life to whole nations.
984 페이지 - The cloth is first impregnated with oil, then with galls, and lastly with alum. It is then boiled for an hour in a decoction of madder, which is commonly mixed with a quantity of blood. After the cloth is dyed, it is * plunged into a soda lye, in order to brighten the colour. The red given by this process is very permanent, and when properly Conducted, it is exceedingly beautiful. The whole difficulty consists in the...
848 페이지 - This is effected by exhausting the siphon of the air which it contains, or at least so rarefying it that the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water will force up the liquid beyond the highest point of the curve of the siphon, when it will descend by the opposite leg.
678 페이지 - With a body of oatmeal of a foot in diameter, and rather more than an inch deep, he froze a pound and a quarter of water, contained in a hemispherical porous cup. The meal is easily dried and restored again to its action. In a hot climate the exposure to the sun alone might prove sufficient. By the help of this simple material, therefore,, ice may easily and safely be produced in any climate, and even at sea.
1004 페이지 - ... a quarter of an inch thick, and hollowed a little in the middle, called pipes ; in which state they are put in a pot over the fire, there to boil for about two hours. When taken...
641 페이지 - ... raising under the streets of London the choicest products of the hills and valleys of France. They can squeeze Bordeaux out of the sloe, and draw Champagne from an apple.
987 페이지 - The -colour being thus left only in the engraved pattern, the piece of calico or muslin is drawn tightly over the cylinder, which revolves in the same direction, and prints the cloth.
803 페이지 - The different operations of cookery, as roasting, boiling, baking, &c., have all a reducing effect ; and may, therefore, be considered as preparatory to the solvent action of the stomach. Of these operations, man's nature has taught him to avail himself, and they constitute the chief means by which he is enabled to be omnivorous: for, without such preparation, a very large portion of the matters which he now adopts as food, would be completely indigestible.
981 페이지 - ... of iron produces with it a black. In dyeing, then, it is not only necessary to procure a mordant which has a sufficiently strong affinity for the colouring matter and the cloth, and a colouring matter which possesses the wished-for colour in perfection, but we must procure a mordant and a colouring matter of such a nature, that when combined together, they shall possess the wished* for colour in perfection.