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58. An encyclopaedia 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, with the nature of their materials; duties of servants; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food, and the methods of preserving and preparing them by cooking; making bread; the chemical nature and the preparation of all kinds of fermented liquors used as beverage; materials employed in dress and the toilette; business of the laundry; description of the various wheel-carriages; preservation of health; domestic medicine, &c,&c.

Creator:
Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

100. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons: exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy : and methods of detecting them

Creator:
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838.
Collection:
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History
Location:
Albert R. Mann Library
Publisher:
Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book