The Project Gutenberg eBook of Miss Beecher’s House Keeper and Healthkeeper, by Miss Beecher.

Accidents and antidotes, 366.
Acids, how to be kept, 108.
Address of the author to readers, 15.
Aged, care of the, 301.
Air-cells, number in human lungs, 153.
Alcoholic drinks, 100;
the microscope, 228.
Alcoholic poisoning, antidote for, 368.
Almond and cocoa-nut cake, 86.
Amusements and social duties, 440, et seq.
Angry tones avoidable, 277.
Antidotes for some poisons, 367.
Apple and bread dumplings, 79.
Apple-bread, 68.
Apple-custard, 68.
Apple-omelet, to make an, 63.
Apple-pie, 76.
Apple-sauce, 56.
Apple-tarts, spiced, 81.
Apple-trees, to preserve from insects, 360.
Apple-ice, 97.
Apple-jelly, 98.
Apple lemon-pudding, 97.
Apple-snow, 98.
Apples, to preserve, 92.
Apportionment of time, proper, 283.
Arrow-root, how purchased and kept, 105.
Arsenic, antidote for, 368.
Asparagus, how to cook, 63;
how dished, 111.
Associated charities, a system of, 387.
Attic story of a house, plan for, 144.
Bacon, the fat of good, 21.
Baked fish, 59.
Baked meats. See Roasts, 46.
Basement, plan for a, 147.
Basket-ware for kitchen, 347.
Baskets for flowers, 196;
and fruits, 333.
Bath, use and misuse of the, 240.
Baudeloque, M., on foul air, 158.
Beautifying a home, 192, et seq.
Beds, arranging, 341.
Beef, selection of, 18;
different cuts of, 19;
economy in purchase of, 19;
stew, 30;
soups, 37;
hash, 40;
boiled, 43;
roast, 46;
pot-pie of, 47;
pie of cold, 48;
frizzled, 51.
Beef-tea, 102.
Beef’s-gall, to keep, 116.
Beefsteak, broiled, 50.
Bees, care of, 312.
Beets, how to cook, 61.
Biliousness, cause of, 217.
Bill of fare four weeks ahead, 125.
Bird’snest pudding, 78.
Biscuits—soda, yeast, potato, 69;
of sour milk and flour, 71.
Blackberry jam, 93.
Blanc-mange, 98;
of wheat flour, 97.
Bleeding from the lungs, throat, etc., 369.
Blood, the human, 150, et seq.
Body, composition of the human, 214.
Boiled fish, 59.
Boiled meats—to cook tough beef, ham, beef, fowls, 43;
a leg or shoulder of veal, mutton, or lamb, calf’s liver and sweet-breads, kidneys, pillau, smoked tongues, corned beef, 44;
partridges or pigeons, ducks, turkeys, 45.
Bologna sausages, to make, 26.
Bones, composition of, 243;
laws of health for the, 454.
Borax, for washing, 112.
Brain and nerves, 203.
Brain, laws of health for the, 457.
Brandy peaches, 91.
Bread, remarks regarding family, 64;
fine flour, 66;
middlings, or unbolted flour, raised with water only, 67;
rye and indian, third, rye, Oat-meal, pumpkin and apple, corn-meal, 68;
sweet rolls of corn-meal, soda biscuit, yeast biscuit, potato biscuit, buns, 69;
how to keep, 108.
Bread and apple dumplings, 79.
Bread and fruit pudding, 77.
Bread omelet, to make, 63.
Bread-crumbs and meat hash, 40.
Bread pudding, stale, 78;
for invalids, 81.
Breakfast dishes, 70-73.
Breakfast-rooms, care of, 335.
Breathing, the action in, 245.
Breeding of animals, 307.
Brewer, Professor, of Yale College, on ventilation, 169.
Brine or pickle for beef, pork, etc., 25.
Broccoli, to pickle, 55.
Broiled fish, 59.
Broiled mutton or lamb chops, beefsteak, fresh pork, ham, sweet-breads, veal, pork relish, 50.
Broiled oysters, 58.
Bruises, remedies for, 366.
Brûlure, or fire-blight, 360.
Buckwheat, how produced and kept, 105.
Buckwheat cakes, 73.
Budding and grafting, 353.
Buns, to make, 69.
Burns, remedies for, 366.
Butler, Fanny Kemble, on theatre-going, 444.
Butter, to keep, 106; in hot weather, 123.
Butternut catsup, 56.
Cabbage, fine, pickled, 54.
Cabbage and cauliflower, to cook, 62.
Cake, general directions for making, 85;
one, two, three, four cake; chocolate, jelly, orange, almond, and cocoa-nut, 86;
pound-cake, plain-cake, fruit, huckleberry, gold and silver, rich sponge-cake, 87;
plain sponge-cake, gingerbread, fried cakes, cookies, etc., 88;
plain loaf-cake, rich loaf-cake, dough-cake, icing for cake, 89;
how to keep, 108.
Calf’s-foot, to cleanse, 23;
jelly, 44, 92;
to cook, 44.
Calf’s head and feet, to cleanse, 23;
soup, 38;
to cook, 48.
Calf’s liver and sweet-breads, to cook, 44.
Candied fruits, 99.
Candles, to make, 328.
Canker-worm, to check, 360.
Canned fruits, 91.
Capers, sauce of, mock, 57.
Capitol, ventilation and warming of the, 165.
Carbonaceous food, 217.
Carbonic acid, 153.
Card-playing as an amusement, 444.
Care of meats, 18, 22;
of the aged, 301;
of domestic animals, 305;
of the sick, 313;
of servants, 424.
Carpets, selection of, 330;
cutting and fitting, 330.
Carrots, how to cook, 61.
Carving, directions for, 338.
Castle-building, 296.
Catholic priests, care for servants, 438.
Catsup, walnut or butternut, 56;
tomato, 57.
Cauliflower, to pickle, 55;
to cook, 62.
Celery, to prepare, 62.
Cell-life, 200;
curious facts, 201;
important relations to health, 202.
Cellar, care of a, 348.
Cement, a good, 122.
Chairs, a use for old, 195.
Chambers and bedrooms, care of, 339.
Character, protection to, 410.
Charities, associated, 387, et seq.
Charlotte russe, 96.
Cheese, how to keep, 108.
Cheese of veal, 51.
Cherries, to preserve, 93.
Cherry-pie, 79.
Chickens, etc., stew, 31;
roast, 47;
pot-pie and rice-pie, 48.
Chicken salad, 57, 96.
Children talking to parents, 264, et seq.;
the bath for, 241;
training the manners of, 269, et seq.
See, also, Young Children.
Chimney, a central, 176.
Chimneys, 189, et seq.
Chinese, respect for age, 304.
Chocolate, as a beverage, 101.
Chocolate-cake, 86.
Cholera, in the shade, 256.
Chowder, clam, 59.
Cider and toast, 101.
Circus-riding, about, 441.
Citron melons, to preserve, 93.
Clam soup, 37;
chowder, 59.
Clarify sugar, to, 99.
Clark, Dr. James, on physical education of children, 401.
Cleaning furniture, 332.
Cleanliness, 235, et seq.;
for animals, 306.
Clothing, 243, et seq.;
selection of family, 129.
Cloths, table, 109.
Coal, anthracite and bituminous, 325.
Coal mines, principle of ventilating, 168.
Cocoa, to make, 100.
Cocoa-nut pudding (plain), 78;
cake, 86.
Codfish, a relish, 51;
where to keep, 108.
Coffee, fish-skin for, 100;
cream for, 101;
to purchase, 107;
for children, 230;
as a beverage, 231.
Cold-meat hash, 39;
nice way of cooking, 41.
Colds, treatment of, 316.
Combe on the management of infants, 392.
Comfort for a discouraged housekeeper, 459.
Company, reception of, 333.
Conductors of heat, 164.
Constipation, cure for (in note), 315.
Convection, a principle of heat, 164.
Cookies, 88.
Cook-stove, to roast in, 46.
Cooking-stoves and ranges, 182, et seq.
Cool, how to keep, 122.
Corn (green) soup, 36;
pudding, 81.
Corn-cake, sachem’s head, 73.
Corn-meal bread, 68;
sweet rolls of, 69;
pop-overs, 76;
for breakfast and supper, 70.
Corned-beef hash, 41;
boiled, 44.
Corrosive sublimate, antidote for, 368.
Cottage cheese, fine, 73.
Cows, care of, 309.
Crab-apple marmalade and jelly. See Quince Marmalade.
Cracked wheat, 71;
how purchased and kept, 105.
Cracker plum-pudding, 82.
Cranberry, 97;
sauce, 56.
Creaking hinges, to stop, 123.
Cream for coffee and tea, 101.
Cream tartar, beverage, 102.
Crockery for a kitchen, 346.
Crumpets, royal, 72.
Cucumbers, pickled, 53;
convenient way to pickle, 54;
to prepare, 62;
prepared for table, 110.
Curculio, the, in plum-trees, 360.
Curd pudding, English, 77.
Currant and raspberry pie, 79.
Currant jelly, 94;
whisk, 96.
Currants, to preserve, 93;
for cake, 107;
raised in a wet soil, 358.
Custard, plain, 77.
Cuts, remedies for, 366.
Cutting dresses, hints on, 361.
Dancing as an amusement, 441.
Death-rates, average of, 162, 163.
Decay, results of animal or vegetable, 162.
Dessert of rice and fruit, 80.
Desserts and evening parties, 95.
Diaphragm, the human, 246.
Digestion of food, 217.
Digestive organs, the, 219;
the laws of health for, 455.
Dining-rooms, care of, 335.
Discouraged housekeeper, comfort for, 459.
Domestic amusements and social duties, 440, et seq.
Domestic animals, care of, 305, et seq.
Domestic exercise, 208, et seq.
Domestic manners, 260, et seq.
Domestic service a great problem, 429.
Domestics’ rooms, 342.
Dormer-windows, 176.
Dough-cake, 89.
Doughnuts, 88.
Drawn butter, 110;
sauce, 56.
Dress appropriate to servants, 431.
Dress—fashion ruinous to health, 243.
Dressing a young girl, proper mode of, 251.
Drinks, etc., for the sick, 100.
Drop-cakes of fine wheat or rye, 72.
Drowning, in cases of, 367.
Ducks, to boil, 45.
Dumplings of bread and apples, 79.
Dwelling, construction of a family, 127;
ornamentation of furniture of, 128.
Early rising, 254;
recommended, 447.
Earth-closets, 145.
Eating too much, 214;
too fast, 222.
Economical breakfast-dish, 71.
Egg-plant, how to cook, 61.
Eggs, with meat-hash, 39;
omelet, 51;
with milk as sauce, 56;
modes of cooking, 63;
to preserve, 122.
Egg tea, egg coffee, and egg milk, 102.
English curd-pudding, 77.
Essences, how to be kept, 108.
Evening parties and desserts, 95.
Exercise indispensable to health, 211;
for animals, 307.
Expenses, family, 130.
Eyes, laws of health for the, 457.
Family attachments, 452.
Family religious training, 414, et seq.
Fasting, a remedy for sickness, 314.
Fault-finding, mistakes of, 432.
Fever, drink for a, 102.
Figs, where raised, 358.
Filberts, where raised, 358.
Fine-flour bread, 66.
Fire, in case of, 369.
Fire-blight in pear-trees, 360.
Fire-places, the advantages of open, 166.
Fires and lights, 324.
Fish, selection of, 22;
to salt down, 23;
directions for cooking, 58.
Fishing as a sport, 440.
Fitting dresses, hints on, 361.
Flannel shirts save washing, 112.
Flavoring powders, 33.
Floating island, 98.
Flour, how it should be kept, 104.
Flour puddings, flour and fruit puddings, 75;
a rich, 80.
Flower-seeds, planting, 350.
Flowers, appropriate for baskets, 197;
in a room, to cultivate, 197.
Fluids as food, 224.
Flummery, 96.
Folding, sprinkling, and ironing, 118.
Folding clothing, directions for, 342.
Food, on the conversion of, into nourishment, 214;
responsibility as to, in a family, 214;
on taking too much, 214;
proportion of nutritive elements in, 215;
on one kind of, for each meal, 217;
quantity of, to be graduated by exercise, 217;
on the quality of, 221;
stimulating, 221;
animal and vegetable, 221;
kinds of,most easily digested, 222;
injurious, from bad cooking, 222;
on eating too fast, 222;
on exercise, after taking, 223;
on hot and cold, 223;
highly concentrated, 224;
for the sick, 318.
Forewarn instead of find fault, 432.
Foul air, the evils of, 158, et seq.
Fowls, boiled, 43;
fricasseed, 43.
Fragile ware, to preserve, 122.
French cooking, the peculiar excellence of, 34.
French vegetable soup, 38.
Fresh-meat hash, 39.
Fricasseed fowl, 43.
Fried meats and relishes, 50.
Fried oysters, 58.
Fritters of oysters, 58.
Frizzled beef, 51.
Fruit, cultivation of, 357.
Fruit and bread-crumb pudding, 79.
Fruit and rice dessert, 80.
Fruit-cake, 87.
Fruit pudding, boiled, 77.
Frying, unhealthful mode of cooking, 50.
Fuel saved by cottage stove, 188.
Furnace-heat pernicious, 178, et seq.
Furniture, to cleanse or renovate, 122;
the selection of, 128, 330.
Games of skill for children, 449.
Garden seeds, planting, 350.
Gardening a recreation for the young, 447.
Gardens and yard, care of, 349.
Ganglionic system, the, 204.
Garnishing dishes, modes of, 111.
Gastric juice, supply of, 218.
Gherkins, pickled, 53.
Gingerbread, 88.
Ginger-snaps and seed cookies, 88.
Gold and silver cake, 87.
Good breeding, principles of, 260.
Gooseberries, how propagated, 358.
Gouffee’s recipes, 33.
Grafting and budding, 353.
Grapes, easy way to keep, 125;
to raise, 359.
Grates and stoves, 324.
Gravies, always to be strained, 46;
brown flour for meat, 46.
Grease and stains, mixtures for removing, 120, 124.
Grease-spots, to remove, 124.
Greens, how prepared, 111.
Green corn, how to cook, 61;
pudding, 81;
patties, 82.
Ground-plan of a house, 134.
Gruels, water and Oat-meal, 102.
Habits of system and order, 281, et seq.
Hair, laws of health for the, 457.
Ham, selection of, 21;
recipe for molasses-cured, 24;
brine for pickling, 25;
to smoke, 26;
hash of cold, 41;
boiled, 43;
how to keep, 108;
broiled eggs for, 111.
Hard yeast, 66.
Hashes, common way of spoiling, 39;
fresh meat, cold meat and potatoes, with eggs, 39;
with tomatoes, nice beef, veal, rice and cold meat, bread-crumbs and cold meat, cold beefsteak, 40;
cold mutton or venison, corned beef, cold ham, meats warmed over, cold meats, 41;
souse, tripe, 42;
how to dish, 111.
Hasty pudding or mush, 77.
Health, the care of, 129, 199.
Healthful food, selection of, 129.
Health of mind, 293, et seq.
Heart, the human, 152.
Heat, or caloric, explained, 164.
Helping at table, 338.
Hemming, hints on, 363.
Herrings, salt, 51;
smoked, 108.
Hominy for breakfast or supper, 70;
how purchased and kept, 105.
Hominy, or rice stew, 32.
Hop and potato yeast, 66.
Horses, care of, 307.
Horse-racing, about, 441.
Hosford’s method of making flour, 65.
Hospitality, the most agreeable, 453.
Hot-beds, to prepare, 349.
“House and Home Papers,” by Mrs. Stowe, 155, 425.
House-cleaning, 332.
House plants, care of, 352.
Houses, on the construction of, 133-149.
Huckleberry cake, 87.
Hunting as a sport, 440.
Hygrodeik, the, 175.
Hypochondriasis, 297.
Hysteria, 297.
Ice-cream, general directions for, 95;
strawberry ice, ice-cream without cream, 95;
fruit ice-cream, 96;
lemonade and other ices, 96.
Iced fruit, 98.
Icing for cake, 89.
Indian meal, how purchased and kept, 105.
Indian pudding boiled, without eggs, 79;
baked, 81.
Indiana pickles, 55.
Indigo, to purchase and keep, 107.
Industrial schools, 362.
Infants, pure air for, 268;
mortality among, 390;
on giving to the older children, 391;
ignorance of parents concerning, 391;
importance of knowing how to take care of, 392;
Combe and Bell cited, 393, et seq.;
food for, 394;
medicines for, 394;
keeping warm, 395;
keeping their heads cool, 396;
bathing, 396;
to creep, 397;
habits, 397;
teething, 398;
constipation, 399;
diarrhœa, 399;
use of water in fever, 400.
Ingrafting, 355.
Ink, indelible, how to make, 122.
Ink-stains, to remove, 121.
Instinctive love, 372.
Intemperance in eating, 214, 218.
Involuntary motion, nerves of, 204.
Iodide of potassium, antidote for, 368.
Irish stew, 31.
Ironing, articles to be provided for, 117;
general directions for, 119.
Iron, to stop cracks in, 123.
Iron-ware for kitchen, 346.
Isinglass, to clarify, 98;
American, 105.
Jellies and preserves, to prepare, 90.
Jelly, white wine, 96;
apple, orange, 93;
what served with, 110.
Jelly-cake, 86.
Kid gloves, to clean, 121;
another way, 124.
Kidneys, function of the human, 238.
Kidneys, to cook, 44.
Kitchen, care of a, 343;
furniture for a, 346;
plan for a, 141.
Laces, to do up, 117.
Lamb chops, broiled, 50.
Lamb, to boil a shoulder or leg, 44.
Lamp-oil, to remove stains of, 121.
Lamps, oil and kerosene, 326.
Lard and drippings, to keep, 106.
Lard, to try out, 24.
Laughter is healthy, 449.
Laws of health, for the bones, for the muscles, 454;
for the lungs, for the digestive organs, 455;
for the skin, 456;
for the brain and nerves, for the teeth, eyes, and hair, 457.
Laying out yards and gardens, 351.
Lazy gentleman, a, 272.
Lead, antidote for, 368.
Leeds’s method of ventilation, 171.
Lemon pudding, 82;
jelly, 97;
peel, 107.
Lemonade ice, 96.
Lettuce salad, 57.
Leucoemia, 256.
Lewis, Dr. Dio, on ventilation, 159.
Light essential to health, 256.
Light for animals, 307.
Lightning, struck by, 369.
Lights for a house, 326.
Lime or baryta, antidote for, 368.
Liver, calf or pig, beef, to cook, 51.
Liver, use of the human, 238.
Loaf pudding, 82;
cake, 89.
Longevity, Sir John Sinclair on, 257.
Lungs, the human, 151;
laws of health for, 455.
Lye, to make, 115.
Macaroni, how purchased and kept, 105.
Macaroni pudding, 81.
Mahogany furniture, 333.
Mangoes, pickled, 54.
Manners at home and in society, 260, et seq.
Manners to servants, 435.
Marketing, 18.
Marmalade, quince, 94;
orange, 97.
Martinoes, to pickle, 54.
Mattresses, 139, 341.
Measures of quantity, 28.
Meat and rusk puddings, 76.
Mechanical skill developed in children, 450.
Medicines, the use of, 314, et seq.
Melancholy, condition of, 297.
Mental health and disease, 294, et seq.
Metal dishes, never cool soup in, 35.
Mice and rats, to get rid of, 124.
Mildew, to remove, 119.
Milk and egg sauce, 56.
Milk, dangerous use of, 101;
as a drink, 233.
Milk lemonade, 101.
Mint sauce for lamb, 56.
Minute pudding of potato starch, 78.
Mock cream, 79.
Model ventilation, 172, et seq.
Moisture in air necessary, 178.
Molasses, to purchase and keep, 106.
Moral character, what constitutes, 371.
Mucous membrane, the, 237.
Muffins, wheat, of flour, fine or unbolted, 72.
Muscles, laws of health for the, 454.
Muscular exercise, 208, et seq.
Mush or hasty pudding, 77.
Mushrooms, pickled, 53.
Music, considered as a recreation, 448.
Muslin curtains, 194.
Muslins, to starch, 117.
Mutton—division of a sheep, 20;
selection of, 21;
and turnip stew, 30;
soup, 38;
hash, 41;
boiled leg or shoulder of, 44;
roast, 47;
pie, 48.
Mutton chops, broiled, 50.
Napkins, table, 109.
Nasturtions, pickled, 53.
Nerves, laws of health for the, 467.
Nervous system, the, described, 202.
Nervousness in sick people, 320.
Nettle-rash caused by food, 240.
Night air, prejudice against, 160.
Nitrate of silver, antidote for, 368.
Novel-reading, 296, 445.
Nursery, selection of helpers in the, 130.
Nursing the sick, 319.
Oat-meal bread, 68;
for breakfast or supper, 71;
how purchased and kept, 105.
Odds and ends, advice about, 124.
Oil, to purchase and keep, 106.
Oil-paint, to remove spots of, 151.
Oino-mania, disease of the brain, 228.
Olla podrida, recipe for, 32.
Omelet of eggs, 51;
plain, bread, apple, 63;
oysters, 58.
One, two, three, four cake, 86.
Onions, used as flavoring, 35;
pickled, 53;
to cook, 62.
Open fire-places, 165;
the advantages of, 166.
Opium, the use of, 233;
antidote for, 369.
Orange-cake, 86;
marmalade, 97;
jelly, 98;
peel, 107.
Ornamental froth, 98.
Ornamentation of a house, 128.
Orphan asylum at Albany, treatment of children in the, 401.
Oyster plant, or salsify, to cook, 61.
Oysters, stewed, fried, fritters, scalloped, broiled, omelet, pickled, 58;
roast, 59.
Ox-muzzle made into an ornament, 196.
Oxygen, amount of in full-grown man, 150.
Packing and storing articles, 342.
Panada, 102.
Pancreas gland, the, 238.
Pan dowdy, 76.
Paper to keep preserves, 123.
Paralysis of portion of the brain, 206.
Parlor cheaply furnished, 195.
Parsley, as a garnish, 111.
Parsnips, how to cook, 62.
Partridges, to boil, 45.
Paste for puddings and pies should be banished from every table, 83;
pie-crusts, 83;
directions for making rich pie-crusts, 84.
Patties of green corn, like oysters, 82.
Pea (green or dried) soup, 37.
Peaches, pickled, 52;
in pie, 79;
how to preserve, 91.
Pearl barley-water, 102.
Pearl barley and pearl wheat, how purchased and kept, 105.
Pearl wheat or cracked wheat, 71.
Pears, to preserve, 92.
Peppers, pickled, 53.
Perspiration tubes, length of, 237.
Philadelphia, death-rate of, 163.
Philanthropy, instances of true, 380.
Phin, Professor, on lighting houses, 326.
Phosphorus, antidote for, 368.
Pickle for cold fish, 59.
Pickled oysters, 58.
Pickles, general directions, 52, 110;
sweet, tomatoes, peaches, 52;
peppers, nasturtions, onions, gherkins, mushrooms, cucumbers, walnuts, 53;
mangoes, cabbage, martinoes, cucumbers, 54;
Indiana, cauliflower, or broccoli, 55;
never keep in glazed ware, 106.
Pictures, the hanging of, 332.
Pie, potato, 48.
Pie-crusts, 83, 84.
Piece-bag, a, 146.
Pies—meat, mutton, beef, chicken, rice-chicken, 48.
Pigeons, to boil, 45.
Pigs, benefited by cleanliness, 241.
Pilaff, or Turkish stew, 32.
Pillau, a favorite dish in the South, 44.
Pine-apples, to preserve, 92.
Pitch, to remove spots of, 120.
Plain cake, raised with eggs, 87.
Planting flower and garden seeds, 350.
Plum pie, 79.
Plum pudding, cracker, 82.
Plums, to preserve, 92.
Poisons, antidotes for certain, 367.
Pop-overs, of corn-meal, 76.
Pork, divisions of a hog, 21;
selection of, 21;
to salt, 24, 25;
broiled, 50;
fresh, 110.
Potash soap, to make, 115.
Potato, various modes of cooking, 60;
soup, 36;
pie, 48;
biscuit, 69;
yeast, 66;
starch pudding, 78.
Pot au feu, or French stew, 32.
Pot-pie—beef, veal, or chicken, 47.
Poultry, selection of, 21;
when and how to be killed, 22;
boiled, 110;
care of, 311.
Pound-cake, 87.
Precocity, juvenile, 295.
Preserves and jellies, general directions, 90;
how to keep, 108.
Preserving fruit-trees, 360.
Propagation of plants, 353.
Property, on using properly, 378.
Pruning, 356.
Prussic acid, antidote for, 368.
Puddings and pies, 74;
queen of all puddings, 75;
flour puddings, flour and fruit, rusk and milk, rusk, 75;
meat and rusk (one easily made), pan dowdy, corn-meal, pop-overs, best apple-pie, rice pudding, 76;
bread and fruit pudding, boiled-fruit pudding, English curd pudding, common apple-pie, plain custard, mush or hasty pudding, 77;
stale bread, rennet custard, bird’s nest pudding, minute pudding of potato starch, tapioca pudding, cocoa-nut pudding, 78;
pumpkin-pie, ripe-fruit pies, mock cream, pudding of fruit and bread-crumbs, bread and apple dumplings, Indian pudding without eggs, boiled Indian and suet puddings, 79;
dessert of rice and fruit, rice and apple, rich flour pudding, 80;
apple-pie, 80;
spiced apple-tarts, baked Indian pudding, apple custard, macaroni or vermicelli puddings, green-corn pudding, bread pudding for invalids, 81;
a good pudding, loaf pudding, lemon pudding, green-corn patties, cracker plum pudding, bread-and-butter pudding, 82;
sauces for puddings, 82;
paste for puddings and pies, 83.
Pumpkin and squash, how to cook, 62;
bread, 68;
pie, 79;
preserved, 94.
Puritans, descendants of the, 262.
Pyramid for a table, 99.
Quantity, measures of, 28.
Queen of all puddings, 75.
Quinces, to preserve, 91;
jelly, 91;
marmalade, 94.
Radiation of heat, 165.
Radishes, to prepare, 62.
Raisins, to purchase and keep, 107.
Ranges, cooking, 182, et seq.
Raspberries, how grown, 358.
Raspberry jam, 93;
whisk, 96;
vinegar, 101.
Rats and mice, to get rid of, 124.
Reading for the young, suitable, 446.
Reflection of heat, 165.
Relief, bestowing, 385.
Religion, power of, in the household, 280;
of servants, 438.
Religious training in the family, 414, et seq.
Rennet, to prepare, 23;
custard, 78;
wine, 78;
whey, 102.
Reserve power of the body, 162.
Rice, modes of using, 73;
as stew, 32;
with cold-meat hash, 39, 41;
for breakfast and supper, 70;
waffles, 73;
pudding, 76;
and fruit dessert, 80;
how to purchase and keep, 105;
plain boiled, 110.
Right use of time and property, 370, et seq.
Roast oysters, 59.
Roast and baked meats—beef, to roast, in a cook-stove, pork, 46;
mutton, veal, poultry, pot-pie of beef, veal, or chicken, 47;
mutton and beef pie, chicken-pie, rice chicken-pie, potato-pie, calf’s head, 48.
Rolls, of corn-meal, 69.
Rooms, the care of, 330.
Rose-bushes, budding, 355.
Roses and other plants, how to treat, 123.
Royal crumpets, 72.
Rules for setting a table, 337.
Rusk puddings, 75.
Rusk and milk, 75.
Rusk and meat puddings, 76.
Rust from knives, to keep, 122.
Rye, how purchased and kept, 105.
Rye and indian bread, 68.
Rye or corn meal for breakfast or supper, 70.
Sachem’s head corn-cake, 73.
Sago, how purchased and kept, 105.
Salad, chicken, 96;
a dressing for, 57.
Sally Lunn, improved, 72.
Salsify, or oyster-plant, 61.
Salt, to purchase and keep, 106.
Salt, to meats, 22; to beef, 23;
to fish, 23;
for animals, 307.
Salt herrings, 51.
Salted provisions must be watched, 108.
Sal volatile, how preserved, 108.
Sassafras jelly, 102.
Sauces—milk and egg, drawn butter, mint, cranberry, apple, walnut or butternut catsup, 56;
mock capers, salad dressing,
57;
tomato catsup, 57;
for puddings, liquid, 82;
hard, a healthful, an excellent, 83.
Sausages, to prepare cases, 26;
meat, 26;
bologna, 26.
Scalloped oysters, 58.
Scallops, to cook, 59.
Science and training needful to women, 127.
Scissors, lessons in use of, 362.
Scorched articles, how to whiten, 119.
Screws, movable, 136.
Scrofula, produced by foul air, 158.
Sea-sickness aggravated by bad air, 159.
Seasoning, difficulty of directing as to, 28.
Secreting organs, the, 238.
Selection of meats, poultry, and fish, 18-22.
Servants, training and government of, 130;
the care of, 424, et seq.
Sewing, hints on, 361;
in public schools, 362.
Sewing-machines, 364.
Sheep, care of, 310.
Shelter for animals, 306.
Sick, drinks and articles for the, 100;
care of, 313, et seq.
Silk, directions for ironing, 119;
to renovate black, 123.
Silk kerchiefs and ribbons, to clean 121;
silk hose and gloves, to clean, 121.
Silver, to clean, 123.
Simple drinks, 101.
Sirup for sweetmeats, 91.
Sisters of Charity, 322.
Skin, the human, 235;
functions of, 154;
laws of health for, 456.
Sleeping-rooms, ventilation in, 177.
Smoke hams, how to, 26.
Smoked tongues, to boil, 44.
Smoky chimneys, cause and remedy, 190.
Snow, a dish of, 99.
Snow for eggs, 123.
Soap, to purchase and keep, 107;
to make soft soap, 116.
Social duties and amusements, 440, et seq.
Soda, to purchase and keep, 107.
Soda biscuits, 69.
Soft soap, to make, 116.
Soil for pot-plants, to prepare, 349.
Soups—general directions for making, 35;
potato, green corn, 36;
plain beef, rich beef, green pea, dried bean or pea, clam, 37;
mutton, French vegetable, plain calf’s head, 38.
Souse, 42.
Soy, a fashionable sauce, 110.
Spanish olla podrida, recipe for, 32.
Spencer (Herbert), on treatment of offspring, 390.
Spermaceti, to remove spots of, 121.
Spiced apple-tarts, 81.
Spices, how purchased and kept, 107.
Spine, the human, 244.
Split-grafting, 355.
Sponge-cake, rich, 87;
plain, 88.
Sprains, remedies for, 366.
Sprinkling, folding, and ironing, 118.
Squash and pumpkin, how to cook, 62;
pie, 79.
Stains and grease, mixtures for removing, 119, 120.
Stale-bread pudding, 78.
Starch, to purchase and keep, 107;
to prepare, 116.
Starching muslins and laces, 117.
Steam-coils for warming dwellings, 180.
Steam-doctors, 240.
Stew or soup kettle, 28.
Stewed oysters, 58.
Stews, general directions for, 29;
varieties of, 30.
Stimulants unnecessary, 225.
Stimulating food, 221.
Stock for soap, 36.
Store-room, cool and dry place indispensable, 104;
plan for a, 141;
the care of, 348.
Stores, providing and care of family, 103.
Stoves and grates, 324.
Stoves are economical, 177;
for cooking, 182;
durability of the cottage-stove, 187.
Stowe’s, Mrs., “House and Home Papers,” 155, 425.
Strawberries, to preserve, 93;
the proper soil for, 358.
Strawberry-ice, 96;
whisk, 96;
vinegar, 101.
Straw-matting for chambers, 332.
Strong-flavored meats, 110.
Strychnine, antidote for, 369.
Succotash, how to cook, 61.
Suffocation through defective flues, 191.
Sugar an unwholesome diet, 74.
Sugars, how purchased and kept, 105.
Suitable meats and vegetables, 110.
Supper-dishes, 70-73.
Sweet herbs, how preserved, 107.
Sweet potatoes, to cook, 61.
Sweet-breads, calf’s, 44;
broiled, 50.
Swine, care of, 310.
System and order, habits of, 281, et seq.
Table furniture, 336.
Table manners, 268.
Tables, art of setting, 109, 336;
rules for setting, 337;
for dinners, 337;
waiting on, 338.
Tapioca, how purchased and kept, 105;
as a pudding, 78.
Tar, to remove spots of, 120.
Taylor’s, Dr. George, movement cure, 207.
Tea, to make, 100;
cream for, 101;
the purchase of, 107;
for children, 230;
as a beverage, 231.
Teeth, laws of health for the, 457.
Temper, preservation of good, 274, et seq.
Theatres, regarding, 443.
Thinning fruit on trees, 356.
Third bread, 68.
Tight-lacing, the evils of, 247, et seq.
Time and property, right use of, 370, et seq.
Time, on apportioning, 375;
on saving, 376;
devoted by Jews to religion, 377.
Tin ware for kitchen, 346.
Toast and cider, 101.
Tobacco, the use of, 233.
Tomatoes, with meat-hash, 40;
pickled, 52;
excellent way of preparing, 54;
to cook, 62;
sirup, 102.
Tongues, to boil smoked, 44.
Tortures inflicted by fashion, 249.
Tough beef, how to boil, 43.
Training necessary for women, 127.
Transplanting, directions for, 351;
for trees, 352.
Trials of a housekeeper, 275, et seq.
Tripe, 42.
Turkeys, to boil, 45;
salad, 57.
Turkish stew, or pilaff, 32.
Turpentine, to remove spots of, 120.
Typhoid fever and the microscope, 161.
Tyranny of servants, 435.
Unbolted flour to be kept in kegs, 105.
Variety at meals, 219.
Variety of food necessary, 104.
Varnished articles, to remove stains on, 121.
Veal, season for use, 20;
divisions of, 20;
selection of, 20;
hash, 40;
boiled, 44;
roast, 47;
pot-pie of, 47;
broiled, 50;
veal cheese, 51;
broiled with eggs, 111.
Vegetable food, 217.
Vegetables—potatoes, 60;
sweet potatoes, green corn, succotash, salsify, or oyster plant, egg plant, carrots, beets, 61;
parsnips, pumpkins, and squash, celery, radishes, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, and cauliflower, 62;
asparagus, macaroni, 63.
Vegetables should not be boiled in soup, 35.
Velvet, directions for ironing, 119.
Venison or mutton hash, 41.
Ventilation, importance of, 150, et seq.
Vermicelli pudding, 81;
the purchase of, 105.
Vermin in animals, 307.
Waffles of unbolted flour, 72;
of rice, 73.
Waiting at table, 338.
Wall-paper, to cleanse, 123.
Walnut catsup, 56.
Walnuts, pickled, 53.
Ward cases, 196.
Warmed-over meats made into hash, 41.
Warming a home, 164.
Warm plates, 110.
Washing dishes, 344;
rules for, 345.
Washing, ironing, and cleansing, necessaries for, 112;
common mode of washing, 113;
flannels, bedding, calicoes, 114;
use of bran water, 114;
use of potato-water, 115;
to cleanse broadcloth, 115.
Wash-leather articles, to clean, 121.
Water-cure, the, 240.
Water-gruel, 102.
Water-melon rinds, to preserve, 94.
Wax, to remove spots of, 121.
Weekly apportionment of work, 287.
Well, to purify a, 123.
Wheat muffins, 72.
Whiten articles, to, 119.
White tea, and boys’ coffee, 101.
Whip-grafting, 355.
Whip syllabub, 97.
Wine jelly, 96.
Wine whey, 101.
Women, courtesy to, 264.
Wood, a cord and a load of, 324.
Wooden ware for kitchen, 347.
Wood-work of a house, 148.
Yeast, brewers’ or distillers', the best, hop and potato yeast, hard yeast, 66.
Young children, management of, in the Orphan Asylum at Albany, 401;
effects of eating too often, 402;
the intellectual training of, 402;
habits of submission, 403;
self-denial, 404;
sensitiveness, 405;
unsteadiness in, and over-government, 406;
multiplication of rules, 407;
govern by rewards, avoid angry tones, 408;
moral habits, 410;
cultivation of habits of modesty, 411;
treatment of forbidden topics, 411;
purity of thought, 412;
warning to parents, 413.
Young girl, dressing properly a, 251.
Zymotic diseases, 161.