The Domestic Encyclopaedia: Or, A Dictionary of Facts, and Useful Knowledge, Comprehending a Concise View of the Latest Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements, Chiefly Applicable to Rural and Domestic Enconomy ...Murray and Highley, 1802 |
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Página 442 - This, being scraped off and washed in water, gradually subsides to the bottom. After the water is poured off, the remaining moisture is dissipated by a slow tire, and the substance, being constantly stirred, gradually forms into grains about as large as those of sago.
Página 199 - In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour.
Página 398 - If milk be put into a dish, and allowed to stand till it throws up cream, the portion of cream rising first to the surface is richer in quality, and greater in quantity, than that which rises in a second equal space of time ; and the cream...
Página 265 - ... cattle. 5. The back ought to be wide and level throughout ; the quarters long ; the thighs thin, and standing narrow at the round bone; the udder large when full, but thin and loose when empty, to hold the greater quantity of milk; with large dug veins to fill it, and long elastic teats for drawing it off with greater ease.
Página 310 - One pint of drying oil, two ounces of yellow wax, two ounces of turpentine, and half an ounce of ^Burgundy pitch, melted carefully over a slow fire.
Página 227 - To make excellent and wholesome Table Beer. — To eight quarts of boiling water put a pound of treacle, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, and two bay leaves; let this boil for a quarter of an hour, then cool, and work it with yeast, the same as other beer.
Página 491 - The cows being milked early in the morning, the new milk, and that of the preceding night, thus prepared, are poured into a large tub, together with the cream. A piece of rennet, kept in lukewarm water since the preceding evening, is put into the tub, in order to coagulate the milk ; with which.
Página 255 - Lettsom seems to be the least troublesome, and the most complete. After opening the bird by a longitudinal incision from the breast to the vent, dissecting the fleshy parts from the bones, and removing the entrails, eyes, tongue, and brains, (which in large birds may be extracted through the eye-holes with a surgeon's director), the cavities and inside of the skin are to be sprinkled with the powders mentioned below. Glass eyes, which are preferable to wax, are then to be inserted, and the head stuffed...
Página 294 - Specification : .... to the outside of the boats and vessels, of the common or any other form, are projecting gunnels, sloping from the top of the common gunnel, in a faint curve, towards the water, so as not to interrupt the oars in rowing; and, from the extreme projection (which may be greater or less, according to the size and use the boat or vessel is intended for), returning to the side in a faint curve, at a proper distance above the waterline. These projecting...
Página 169 - But if the mercury, after having fallen to " much rain," should ascend to " changeable," it foretels fair weather, though of a shorter continuance than if the mercury had risen still higher ; and so, on the contrary, if the mercury stood at