A bunch of sweet herbs boiled in pickling vinegar is an improvement. 495. Vegetables should not be kept in water when fresh, or refreshed by sprinkling them with water (as is often practised) until they are to be used, for the flavour is thereby greatly injured. It is only when they have become flaccid, that they should be immersed in water, to restore their crispness before they are cooked, otherwise they will be tough and unpalatable. 496. Bed-rooms should be kept as clean as the room in which a family receives visitors or friends. 497. Cakes keep best in tin canisters; wooden boxes, unless well seasoned, are apt to give them a disagreeable taste; brown paper should be avoided for the same reason. 498. A shoulder of mutton is, next to the leg, the joint of meat best calculated for keeping in warm weather. 499. It is well to remember that no liquid preparation of sugar keeps well, unless in a cold situation. In making syrup, it is requisite to employ as little heat as possible; as a solution of sugar, even when kept at the temperature of boiling water, undergoes slow decomposition. 500. The frequent use of a stiff broom soon wears out the beauty of the best carpet: an ordinary clothes-brush is best adapted for superior kinds: if servants would frequently sweep under them, the necessity of beating carpets would be avoided, and this is the worst enemy that a carpet can have. Ham, when well cured, can be kept several years. Veal, when kept, should be hung up, and not laid down anywhere. INDEX. Abernethy, anecdote of, 47 to the eyes, 229 precautions in rendering assist- ance in cases of, 43 in the street, 33 Advice to brothers and sisters, 232 to young ladies, 136 to the mistress of a family, 95 of Rasselas to his friends, 37 Age, keep the heart alive in, 160 Aquariums, access of light required artificial rocks, corals, &c., for, contaminated water in, 174 purity of the water in, 172 stocking with plants and ani- tanks for, 170 treatment of animals when bur- vessels for conveying plants and Arnott, Dr, on the position of fire- Asthma, relief of nervous, 20 Asphyxia, treatment in cases of, 228 moral duty of life, 132 Auctions, 126 Bad habits, 78 Barometer, fluctuations of the, 181 Bathing, hints on, 66 Beds, dampness in, 156 Bed-rooms, ventilation of, 57 Beef-tea, how to make, 212 preservation of, 72 Braidwood's, Mr., remarks on fire, 3 Brothers, advice to, 232 Burns and scalds, treatment of, 80 preservation of, in winter, 22 Byron's opinions on cleanliness, 153 in using spectacles, 196 in the management of the sick, in purchasing drugs, 211 on accidents to the eyes, 222 about horses, in cases of fire, 223 on tight boots, 230 on tight stays, 230 Celery, preservation of, through Cement for stone-ware, 21 Children, Burke's fondness for, 225 178 diet of weaned, 239 likes and dislikes of, 37 poisoned by laburnum-trees, 226 rules adapted to, 178 Choking, treatment in cases of, 213 Clocks, useful hints on the care of, 119 Cold, treatment of persons exposed to Comfort, domestic, 227 Contracts with regard to houses, 63 Cornish mode of making butter, 198 to letter-writers, 99 to acquire high health, 102 to housekeepers on washing, 141 to housewives, 149 to servants, 153 to skaters, 157 to farmers, 159 to young men, 163 to those who give dinner parties, to mothers in the management to gardeners, 188 to young musicians, 202 to ladies on stays, 230 to brothers and sisters, 232 to those that would be rich, by |