A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes | Page 2

you how you may
prepare and cook your daily food, so as to obtain from it the greatest
amount of nourishment at the least possible expense; and thus, by skill
and economy, add, at the same time, to your comfort and to your
comparatively slender means. The Recipes which it contains will afford
sufficient variety, from the simple every-day fare to more tasty dishes
for the birthday, Christmas-day, or other festive occasions.
In order to carry out my instructions properly, a few utensils will be
necessary. Industry, good health, and constant employment, have, in
many instances, I trust, enabled 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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