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Introduction to the House Servant's Directory The benefit of early rising to servants On dress suitable for their work Cleaning boots and shoes Cleaning knives and forks Directions for cleaning steel forks Trimming and cleaning lamps Directions for cleaning plate Cleaning plate with dry plate powder Cleaning silver and plated articles Setting up the candles Cleaning polished steel grates Directions for cleaning mahogany furniture Hints on taking out stains from mahogany Brushing and folding gentlemen's clothes Brushing and cleaning gentlemen's hats Regulations for the pantry Directions for cleaning tea trays Washing and cleaning decanters Trimming the cruet stand or casters To clean tea and coffee urns Mahogany dinner trays Remarks on the morning's work in winter Directions for setting out the breakfast table Regulations for the dinner table Laying the cloth, &c. Setting out the dinner table Setting out the sideboard Setting out the side table Dinner on the table Waiting on dinner The first course removed Second course removed Placing on the dessert Preparations for tea and coffee Carrying round tea and coffee Observations on supper Observations on the supper table Directions for extinguishing lamps, shutting up the house, &c. Address and behaviour to your employers Behaviour to your fellow servants Behaviour of servants at their meals Hints to house servants on their dress Remarks on answering the bells All the various receipts useful for servants to know 1. To make the best liquid blacking for boots and shoes 2. To make boots and shoes water proof 3. Composition to clean furniture 4. Furniture oil for mahogany, most excellent 5. Italian varnish, most superb for furniture 6. Italian polish to give furniture a brilliant lustre 7. To take ink stains out of mahogany furniture 8. An excellent wash for dirty tables, after a party 9. To take the black off the bright bars of polished steel 10. To polish the bars of a polished steel grate 11. The best way to clean a polished steel grate 12. For the black parts or inner hearth of a grate 13. Another excellent black mixture for the same 14. A beautiful mixture to clean brass or copper 15. To give Britannia metal a brilliant polish 16. A beautiful polish for black grates 17. To make the best plate powder 18. A most superb way to clean plate 19. Another way to make plate powder, by J. R. W. of London 20. To clean any kind of plated articles whatever 21. To clean japanned tea and coffee urns 22. To preserve iron or steel from rust 23. To take rust out of steel 24. To blacken the front of stone chimney pieces 25. An excellent composition to blacken stove grates 26. To clean mirrors or large looking glasses 27. To make a beautiful black varnish 28. To give silver a beautiful polish 29. An excellent mastick for mending China and glass 30. A wash to revive old deeds or other writings 31. An excellent wash to keep flies from pictures or furniture 32. To remove flies from rooms 33. To render old pictures as fine as new 34. A varnish that suits all kinds of pictures and prints 35. To take ink spots out of mahogany 36. A most delicious salad sauce, by J. R. W. 37. A great secret to mix mustard, by H. B. London 38. To extract oil from boards 39. To colour any kind of liquor 40. To make liquid currant jam of the first quality 41. A secret against all kind of spots on silk or cotton 42. To make all kinds of syrups of all sorts of flowers 43. To make excellent currant jelly 44. A most delicious lemonade, to be made a day before wanted 45. Lemonade that has the appearance and flavour of jelly 46. To make raspberry vinegar most delicious 47. To make the best wine vinegar in one hour 48. An excellent preparation for vinegar 49. A dry portable vinegar, or vinaigre en poudre 50. To turn good wine into vinegar in three hours 51. To restore that same wine to its former taste 52. To correct a bad taste or sourness in wine 53. To preserve good wine unto the last 54. To recover a person from intoxication 55. To make raspberry strawberry, cherry and all kinds of waters 56. Lemonade water of a most delicious flavour 57. Another excellent lemonade, by R. R. 58. To whiten ivory that has been spoiled 59. A cooling cinnamon water in hot weather 60. An excellent good ratifia, by F. N. 61. A strong aniseseed water 62. To take off spots of any sorrt, from any kind of cloth 63. A great secret against oil spots, &c. 64. To restore carpets to their first bloom 65. To restore tapestries to their former brightness 66. To revive the colour of cloth 67. To take spots out of white cloth, &c. 68. A composition of soap that will take out all sorts of spots 69. Turkey cement for joining all metals, glass, china, &c. 70. To preserve the brightness of fire arms, &c. 71. To remove ink stains from cloth, plaid, silk, worsted, &c. 72. To preserve milk for sea that will keep for six months 73. To preserve apples for the year round 74. To loosen stoppers that are congealed in decanters 75. To take stains out of black cloth, silk, or crape 76. To know whether a bed is damp or not, when travelling 77. To make the best ginger beer 78. To make excellent spruce beer 79. To make a beautiful flavoured punch 80. To cement any kind of broken glass 81. A black varnish for straw or chip hats 82. Blacking for harness that will not injure leather 83. To make a strong paste for paper 84. A water that gilds copper and bronze 85. A wash for gold, silver, silk, or any other kind of embroidery 86. To make iron as beautiful and white as silver 87. To preserve furs or woollen clothes from moths 88. To dye gloves so as to look like York tan 89. To reform those that are given to drink 90. To prevent the breath from smelling, after liquor 91. A wash to give lustre to the face 92. A wash for the hair most superb 93. Excellent paste for the skin 94. A beautiful corn poultice 95. To make the best corn plaster 96. A safe liquid to turn red hair black 97. To refine cider for one barrel 98. To clarify strong or table beer, or ale 99. A cheap and wholesome beer 100. Excellent jumble beer 101. To make excellent ginger beer, for ten gallons 102. A wash to give a brilliant lustre to plate 103. Water proof varnish of the best quality 104. Chinese varnish for miniature painting 105. To make a cement for bottles Directions for putting dishes on table Directions for placing all kinds of joints, fowls, fish, &c. on table Directions for carving Going to market How to choose poultry How to choose fish A few observations to cooks, &c. A word to heads of families Directions how to make a fire of Lehigh coal Miscellaneous observations, compiled for the use of house servants

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• Plný název: House Servant's Directory
• Podnázev: An African American Butler's 1827 Guide
• Autor: Robert Roberts
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 160
• EAN: 9780486449050
• ISBN: 048644905X
• ID: 02774143
• Nakladatelství: Dover Publications Inc.
• Hmotnost: 202 g
• Rozměry: 217 × 140 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 26. May 2006

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