those whom I now address to lay by a little sum of money. A portion of this will be well spent in the purchase of the following articles:--A cooking-stove, with an oven at the side, or placed under the grate, which should be so planned as to admit of the fire being open or closed at will; by this contrivance much heat and fuel are economized; there should also be a boiler at the back of the grate. By this means you would have hot water always ready at hand, the advantage of which is considerable. Such poor men's cooking-stoves exist, on a large scale, in all modern-built lodging-houses. Also, a three-gallon iron pot with a lid to it, a one-gallon saucepan, a two-quart ditto, a frying-pan, a gridiron, and a strong tin baking-dish.
Here is a list of the cost prices at which the above-named articles, as well as a few others equally necessary, may be obtained of all ironmongers:--
�� _s._ _d._
A cooking-stove, 2 ft. 6 in. wide, with oven only 1 10 0
Ditto, with oven and boiler 1 18 0
A three-gallon oval boiling pot 0 4 6
A one-gallon tin saucepan, and lid 0 2 6
A two-quart ditto 0 1 6
A potato steamer 0 2 0
An oval frying-pan, from 0 0 10
A gridiron, from 0 1 0
A copper for washing or brewing, twelve gallons 1 10 0
A mash-tub, from 0 10 0
Two cooling-tubs (or an old wine or beer cask cut?in halves, would be cheaper, and answer the same
purpose), each 6_s._ 0 12 0
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To those of my readers who, from sickness or other hindrance, have not money in store, I would say, strive to lay by a little of your weekly wages to purchase these things, that your families may be well fed, and your homes made comfortable.
And now a few words on baking your own bread. I assure you if you would adopt this excellent practice, you would not only effect a
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