The benefit of early rising to servants | |
On dress suitable for their work | |
learning boot and shoes | |
Cleaning knives and forks | |
Directions for cleaning stee forks | |
Trimming and cleaning lamps | |
Directions for cleaning plate | |
Cleaning plate with dry plate powder | |
Cleaning silver and plated articles | |
Setting up the Candles | |
Cleaning polished steel grates | |
Directions for cleaning mahogany furniture | |
Hints on taking out stains from mahogany | |
Brushing and folding gentlemen's clothes | |
Brushing and cleaning gentlemen's hats Regulations for the pantry | |
Directions for cleaning tea trays | |
Washing and cleaning decanters | |
Trimming the cruet stand or casters | |
To clean tea and coffee urns | |
Mahogany dinner trays | |
Remarks on the morning's work in winter | |
Directions for setting out the breakfast table | |
Regulations for the dinner table | |
Laying the cloth, &c | |
Setting out the dinner table | |
Setting out the sideboard | |
Setting out the side table | |
Dinner on the table | |
Waiting on dinner | |
The first course removed | |
Second course removed | |
Placing on the dessert | |
Preparations for tea and coffee | |
Carrying round tea and coffee | |
Observations on supper | |
Observations on the supper table Directions for extinguishing lamps, shutting up the house, &c | |
Address and behaviours to your employers Behaviour to your fellow servants | |
Behaviour of servants at their meals | |
Hints to house servants on their dress | |
Remarks on answering the bells All the Various receipts useful for servants to know | |
To make the best liquid blacking for boots and shoes | |
To make boots and shoes water proof | |
Composition to clean furniture | |
Furniture oil for mahogany, most excellent | |
Italian varnish, most superb for furniture | |
Italian polish to give furniture a brilliant lustre | |
To take ink stains our of mahogany furniture | |
An excellent wash for dirty tables, after a party | |
To take the black off the bright bars of polished steel | |
To polish the bars of a polished steel grate | |
The best way to clean a polished steel grate | |
For the black parts or inner hearth of a grate | |
Another excellent black mixture for the same | |
A beautiful mixture to clean brass or copper | |
To give Britannia metal a brilliant polish | |
A beautiful polish for black grates | |
To make the best plate powder | |
A most superb way to clean plate | |
Another way to make plate powder, by J.R.W. of London | |
To clean any kind of plated articles whatever | |
To clean japanned tea and coffee urns | |
To preserve iron or steel from rust | |
To take rust out of steel | |
to blacken the front of stone chimney pieces | |
An excellent composition to blacken stove grates | |
To clean mirrors or large looking glasses | |
to make a beautiful black varnish | |
To give silver a beautiful polish | |
An excellent mastick for mending China and glass | |
A wash to revive old deeds or other writings | |
An excellent wash to keep flies from pictures or furniture | |
To remove flies from rooms | |
To render old pictures as fine as new | |
A varnish that suits all kinds of pictures and prints | |
To take ink spots out of Mahogany | |
A most delicious salad sauce | |
A great secret to mix mustard | |
To extract oil from boards | |
To colour any kind of liquor | |
To make liquid currant jam of the first quality | |
A secret against all kind of spots on silk or cotton | |
To make all kinds of syrups of all sorts of flowers | |
To make excellent currant jelly | |
A most delicious lemonade, to be made a day before wanted | |
Lemonade that has the appearance and flavour of jelly | |
To make raspberry vinegar most delicious | |
To make the best wine vinegar in one hour | |
An excellent preparation for vinegar | |
A dry portable vinegar or vinaigre en poudre | |
To turn good wine into vinegar in three hours | |
To restore that same wine to its former taste | |
To correct a bad taste or sourness in wine | |
To preserve good wine unto the last | |
To recover a person from intoxication | |
To make raspberry, strawberry, cherry and all kinds of waters | |
lLemonade water of a most delicious flavour | |
Another excellent lemonade | |
To whiten ivory that has been spoiled | |
A cooling cinnamon water in hot weather | |
An excellent good ratifia | |
A strong aniseseed water | |
To take off spots of any sort, from any kind to cloth | |
A great secret against oil spots, &c | |
To restore carpets to their first bloom | |
To restore tapestries to their former brightness | |
To revive the colour of cloth | |
To take spots out of white cloth, &c | |
A Composition of soap that will take out all sorts of spots | |
Turkey cement for joining all metals, glass, china, &c | |
To preserve the brightness of fire arms, &c. | |
To remove ink stains from cloth, plaid, silk, worsted, &c. | |
To preserve milk for sea that will keep for six months | |
To preserve apples for the year round | |
To loosen stoppers that are congealed in decanters | |
To take stains out of black cloth, silk, or crape | |
To know whether a bed is damp or not, when travelling | |
To make the best ginger beer | |
To make excellent spruce beer | |
To make a beautiful flavoured punch | |
To cement any kind of broken glass | |
A black varnish for straw or chip hats | |
Blacking for harness that will not injure leather | |
To make a strong paste for paper | |
A water that gilds copper and bronze | |
A wash for gold, silver, silk, or any other kind of embroidery | |
To make iron as beautiful and white as silver | |
To preserve furs on woollen clothes from months | |
To dye gloves so as to look like York tan | |
To reform those that are given to drink | |
To prevent the breath from smelling, after liquor | |
A wash to give lustre to the face | |
A wash for the hair most superb | |
Excellent paste for the skin | |
A beautiful corn poultice | |
To make the best corn plaster | |
A safe liquid to turn red hair black | |
To refine cider for one barrel | |
To clarify strong or table beer, or ale | |
A cheap an wholesome beer | |
Excellent jumble beer | |
To make excellent ginger beer, for ten gallons | |
A wash to give a brilliant lustre to plate | |
Water proof varnish of the best quality | |
Chinese varnish for miniature painting | |
To make a cement for bottles Directions for putting dishes on table | |
Directions for placing all kinds joints, fowl, fish, &c. on table | |
Directions for carving; Going to market | |
How to choose poultry | |
How to choose fish | |
A few observations to cooks, &c | |
A word to heads of families | |
Directions how to make a fire a Lehigh coal miscellaneous observations, compiled for the use of house servants | |
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