How to keep house!, or, Comfort and elegance on £150 to £200 a-year : containing tables for marketing; rules for general and minor expenditure; for procuring good servants; for cookery; for the food and education of children; for the preservation of health, &c. &c.

Date:
1832
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Credit: How to keep house!, or, Comfort and elegance on £150 to £200 a-year : containing tables for marketing; rules for general and minor expenditure; for procuring good servants; for cookery; for the food and education of children; for the preservation of health, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Per Year. I. s. d. Wood, from your Oilman 10 0 Potatoes* 7 Sacks at 5s. per sack 1 15 0 Flour. Procure this from the baker. Get in a small sack at a time, weighing lOlbs.: put it in a dri/ bin in your store-room. Flour, chiefly fine, 220 lbs. at 10c?. for 41bs .258 Bread, 365 quartern loaves at lO^d. . , . , 15 19 4 Beer (as wanted) 2 pints per day, at 1 ^d. per pint 4 11 3 Wine for Sunday.^ and Spirits for an occasional Visitor, and as Medicine Milk 200 Wall's End coal at full measure, or weight, as it is likely soon to be. The tricks in the coal trade in London are more numerous than in any other, and there cannot be a worse plan than that of getting coals and wood piece-meal from the coal-sheds. Coals are cheaper in some other cities—but then, twice the quantity are there consumed—the average will therefore hold. * Choose your potatoes of a yellovmli colour and mo- derate size, and place them in your cellar in layers, cover- ing each layer with sand to keep them from the frost. Pur- chase them in James Street, Covent Garden. I 3 0 0