Cottage Comforts: With Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience : Enlivened with Authentic AnecdotesSimpkin and Marshall, 1834 - 224 páginas |
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Página 41
... stirring work , knitting serves very well for a rest . In summer time , you can take a walk in your garden , and knit as you go - and a pair of knit stock- ings , when they are done ( at little odds and ends of time ) are worth at least ...
... stirring work , knitting serves very well for a rest . In summer time , you can take a walk in your garden , and knit as you go - and a pair of knit stock- ings , when they are done ( at little odds and ends of time ) are worth at least ...
Página 62
... stir in a little coarse sugar , and sprinkle a little ground allspice , you may , but it is not necessary . Oh , but I always scald my rice , and then let it stand to get cold , and then ' But then there is not one bit of occasion for ...
... stir in a little coarse sugar , and sprinkle a little ground allspice , you may , but it is not necessary . Oh , but I always scald my rice , and then let it stand to get cold , and then ' But then there is not one bit of occasion for ...
Página 72
... stir in well and cover up , the same as the first . Observe , when I speak of a copper full , I don't mean brim full , and ready to run over ; but so as you can stir down the hops , without dan- ger of splashing over . The grains , you ...
... stir in well and cover up , the same as the first . Observe , when I speak of a copper full , I don't mean brim full , and ready to run over ; but so as you can stir down the hops , without dan- ger of splashing over . The grains , you ...
Página 76
... stir it well with your hands till it becomes tough . Let it rise about an hour and twenty minutes , or less if it rises fast ; then , before it falls , add four quarts more of warm water , and half a pound of salt ; work it well , and ...
... stir it well with your hands till it becomes tough . Let it rise about an hour and twenty minutes , or less if it rises fast ; then , before it falls , add four quarts more of warm water , and half a pound of salt ; work it well , and ...
Página 83
... stir in a quart of skim milk , and either pepper and salt , or treacle , or sugar ; let it boil again gently , stirring it well till it is all united - this makes a capital breakfast . 200. Two pounds of Scotch barley , or two pounds of ...
... stir in a quart of skim milk , and either pepper and salt , or treacle , or sugar ; let it boil again gently , stirring it well till it is all united - this makes a capital breakfast . 200. Two pounds of Scotch barley , or two pounds of ...
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afford allspice amusement answer barley barley water beef tea beer better boiling water borecole bowels bread brewing cabbage castor oil celery child clean cleanliness cloth cold water comfort copper cottage crop drachm electuary endive expense fire flannel flour flowers garden give graft ground gum arabic habits half a pint hand inches keep kind labour lard leeks lettuce liniment liquor loaf mash tub meat medicine milk mixed mother neighbour never nourishing nutmeg occasion onions ounce parsley peas perhaps person pint plants plenty poor potatoes poultice pounds proper public house pudding quantity quart require rubbed salt seed shillings shoots soon spirits of hartshorn stick stir strain suffer sugar sweetened tablespoon full taken teaspoon full thing trees washing weather wine winter yeast young
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Página 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 222 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Página 89 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain b\ the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe naif.
Página 11 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.' — 'Run to my arms, you dearest boy,' cried his father in transports, 'run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold.
Página 220 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Página 211 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 89 - And again, he adviseth to circumspection and care, even in the smallest matters, because sometimes a little neglect may breed great mischief; adding, for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of care about a horseshoe nail...
Página 223 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart...
Página 20 - I have a good piece of barley loaf at home to finish with. How I long to be at it ! A noise in the hedge now attracted his notice, and he spied a squirrel nimbly running up a tree, and popping into a hole between the branches. Ha...
Página 20 - Robinet seated himself by his friend, and set his basket on the bench close by him. A tame raven, which was kept at the house, came...