38

——, ventilation of, 38

Piquante sauce, 473

Pishpash, 502

Pistachio nuts, 582

Pitch of roof, 5

Plaice, 291, 565, 566, 569, 570, 573, 580

Plain darn, 895

Plaster, cleaning, 535

Plate glass against burglars, 108

Plate powders, 539

Plated goods, cleaning, 539

Playground, 870

Plays, arranging, 662

——, fitting the parts, 662

——, list of, 659

——, rehearsing, 663

——, selecting, 659

Playthings, 749

Plinsen, 493

Ploaré dress, 742

Plover, 363, 565, 566, 568, 580, 581

——, carving, 631

——, fillets, 363

—— on toast, 363

——, roast, 363

Plover’s eggs, 570, 581

Plum brandy, 188

—— cake, 215

—— flavour, 479

—— jam, 149

—— pudding, 423

—— —— sauce, 472

—— purée, 424

—— sauce, 462

—— soup, 261

—— tart, 424

Plums, 576, 579

——, bottled, 148

——, bottling, 138

—— in brandy, 149

—— —— syrup, 149

—— —— vinegar, 149

——, keeping, 121

——, preserved, 149

Plush velvet furniture, 98

Poached eggs, 457

Poison dogwood, 793

—— ivy, 793

Poisonous bites, 781

Poisons, 791

Poivrade sauce, 473

Poker, 694

Polish bézique, 686

—— dishes, 506

—— dress, 731

—— sauce, 472

—— soup, 261

Pomeranian soup, 262

Pont l’évêque cheese, 166

Poor knights, 424

—— man’s soup, 262

Poos-pass, 352

Popcorn candy, 439

Poppy poisoning, 793

Porcelain cooking vessels, 239

Pork and beans, 483

—— —— kidney pudding, 335

——, buying, 565, 567, 575, 578, 580

——, carving, 627

—— chops, 336

—— croquettes, 336

——, pickled, 128

—— pie, 336

——, roast, 336

—— sausages, 336

Porker’s head, salting, 129

Porous pottery filters, 32

Porridge, 215, 594

Port du Salut cheese, 167

Port wine jelly, 770

Porter jelly, 424, 770

Pot au feu, 262

—— —— ——, beef, 313

—— pourri, 652

Potage, 242

Potash poisoning, 793

Potassium bichromate stains on hands, 533

—— oxalate poisoning, 793

Potato balls, 378

—— cakes, 378

—— cheese, 446

—— chops, 769

—— omelets, 455

—— pie, 424

—— pudding, 425

—— rissoles, 378

—— salad, 386

—— soup, 262

Potatoes, 565, 568, 570, 572, 573, 576, 578

—— à la Russe, 378

—— au gratin, 378

——, calecannon, 378

—— for bread, 208

——, fried, 378

——, keeping boiled, 113

——, mashed, 378

——, stewed, 378

—— with cream, 377

Pots, kitchen, 237

Potted beef, 125, 313

—— bloaters, 126

—— char, 126

—— cheese, 446

—— larks, 359

—— shrimps, 130

—— sprats, 131

—— trout, 132

Pottery filters, 32

Potting butter, 159

Pouf berek, 513

Poultices, 761

Poultry, buying, 565, 566, 568, 569, 571, 573, 575, 578, 580, 581

——, carving, 628

——, cooking, 344

——, eating, 633

——, hanging, 344

——, keeping, 113

—— lice, 561

—— soup, 250, 263

Pound cake, 216

Powders, taking, 777

Prassas, 513

Prawns, 292, 573

——, aspic, 292

Precautions after floods, 54

Prepared chalk, 779

Preserving barberries, 139

—— beetroot, 139

—— crab-apples, 141

—— cranberries, 142

—— cherries, 141

—— citrons, 141

—— cucumbers, 142

—— figs, 142

—— ginger, 142

—— hips, 144

—— jams and jellies, 137

—— limes, 145

—— melons, 146

—— oranges, 147

—— pears, 148

—— plums, 149

—— quinces, 150

—— strawberries, 152

—— walnuts, 153

President’s pudding, 425

Pressed beef, 313

Primrose pudding, 425

—— vinegar, 136

—— wine, 203

Prince’s pudding, 425

Printing of school-books, 863

Prints, cleaning, 543

Processes of cookery, 240

Prospect for dwelling, 2

Provençal ratafia, 188

Prune cake, 425

—— flavour, 479

—— jelly, 149

—— mould, 425

—— preserve, 150

—— sauce, 472

Prunes, stewed, 425

Prussian cake, 216

Prussic acid poisoning, 792

Ptarmigan, 581

——, carving, 633

Pudding sauce, 473

Puddings, 387

—— for invalids, 773

Puff paste, 421, 503

Pulled fish, 271

Pumpkin, 378

—— jam, 150

—— pie, 483

—— soup, 263

Pumps, 20

——, deep-well, 22

——, dimensions for, 21

——, fixing suction pipe, 21

——, lift and force, 22

——, simple lift, 20

——, suction pipe, 20

——, working capacity, 20

——, working figures, 23

Punch, 203

—— jelly, 426

——, pepper, 173

—— without liquor, 775

Punishments, 868

Purification of water, 16, 23

Purifying air, 57

Purimacos cement, 233

Purity of drinking-water, test for, 24

Purses, 503

Putting electric bell together, 107

—— out candle, 83

—— —— gas, 85

—— —— lamp, 84

—— up butter, 158

Pyrogallol poisoning, 793

Pyrometer, bakers’, 207


Quadrille mazurka dance, 653

Quails, 363, 571, 573, 581

—— in cases, 363

——, roast, 363

Quality of food needed, 583

Quantity of food needed, 583

Quay pudding, 397

Queen Adelaide’s pudding, 426

—— Mab’s pudding, 426

Queen’s biscuits, 217

—— cake, 217

—— drops, 217

—— gingerbread, 217

Quenelle soup, 263

Quenelles, fish, 271

Quiet in sickroom, 756

Quin sauce, 473

Quince and apple tart, 389

—— cakes, 426

—— cordial, 189

—— jam, 150

—— jelly, 150

—— marmalade, 150

—— ratafia, 188

Quinces, brandied, 150

——, preserved, 150

Quinine, taking, 777

Quinsy, 802

Quoits, 882

Quoormah, 502


Rabbit, carving, 630

—— pie, 365

—— with onion sauce, 365

Rabbits, 363, 565, 566, 571, 573, 578, 581

——, baked, 364

——, boiled, 364

——, curried, 364

——, cutlets, 364

——, fricassée, 364

——, stewed, 365

Racking off wine, 190

Racquet court, 883

Radishes, 582

Rahat lukum, 440

Railroad liqueur, 188

Railway pudding, 426

Rain machine, 656

Rainfall, 13

Rain-water, 13

——, catching, 15

—— cisterns, 15, 16

——, disposal of, 42

—— dissolves lead, 17

—— gutters, 42

—— pipes, 17

—— ——, outlet, 18

—— ——, smell from, 42

——, precautions in storing, 17

—— separator, 16

Raised pie in china mould, 426

—— waffles, 487

Raisin flavour, 480

—— pudding, 427

—— wine, 203

Raisins, 565, 582

Ramakins, 447

Rancid butter, 159

Ranges, cooking, 221

Rarebits, 449

Raspberries, 572, 574

——, bottling, 138

Raspberry and currant tartlets, 427

—— brandy, 188

—— cordial, 189

—— custard, 427

—— essence, 179

—— flavour, 480

—— jam, 137

—— jelly, 151

—— sauce, 473

—— syrup, 177

—— vinegar, 137

Rates and taxes, 957

Rat poison, antidotes, 793

Rats, 561

—— eating through leaden pipes, 53

—— in drains, 51, 53

—— not stopped by siphon traps, 53

Ravigote sauce, 473

Ravioli, 427

Raw oysters, 288

Red cabbage, 379

—— colouring for soda-water syrups, 176

—— currant cordial, 189

—— —— jam, 137

—— —— jelly, 151

—— herrings, 127

—— mullet, 287

—— ——, baked, 287

—— ——, broiled, 287

—— ——, stewed, 287

—— ——, stuffed, 287

—— ratafia, 189

Reed birds, 571

Reflectors, 83

Refooting, 901

Refreshments, miscellaneous, 646

Refuse foundations, 2

Regenerative gas burners, 90

Regulation of exercise, 871

Removing ring from finger, 706

—— stoppers, 562

Rennet extract, 160

—— for cheese-making, 159

Renovating, 521

Rent of house, 956

Renting a house, 955

Rep darn, 897

Repairs to house, law of, 956

Reprise perdue darn, 897

Restorative jelly, 770

—— soup, 773

Restoring sour beer, 180

Returned Mariner, 679

Reverberations in rooms, reducing, 8

Rhenish cup, 203

Rheumatism, 821

Rhubarb, 566, 572, 779

—— and orange marmalade, 152

——, bottled, 151

——, bottling, 138

—— cream, 427

—— flummery, 427

—— fool, 427

—— fritters, 428

—— jam, 151

—— jelly, 151, 428

—— mould, 428

—— pudding, 428

——, stewed, 428

—— wine, 204

—— with figs, 428

Rib darn, 900

Rice and carrot soup, 264

—— —— pea soup, 264

—— —— sorrel soup, 264

—— —— tomato soup, 264

——, boiled, 428, 502

——, buying, 577

—— cream, 771

—— croquettes, 428

——, empress, 429

—— fritters, 429

—— gruel,