The care of the sick : a course of practical lectures delivered at the Working Women's College, 31, Red Lion Square / by Richard Barwell.

  • Barwell, Richard, 1827-1916.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The care of the sick : a course of practical lectures delivered at the Working Women's College, 31, Red Lion Square / by Richard Barwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All articles sliould be emptied from the papers, in wliich they are bought, into jars or canisters, and tied down. Kice, sago, spice, tea, etc., when kept in the paper, lose something of their flavour, or take one not their own. There is also the certain waste of grams spilled and scattered about. Great waste may be caused in making poul¬ tices, by preparing more than is needed. The over-quantity is left drying in the saucepan, till it hardens, and the saucepan is cleaned at the cost of much time and labour. If the right quantity be made, and water poured at once into the vessel, it will be quickly cleaned. The habit of leaving a saucepan on the hob, with a small quantity of the cookery left in it to harden and burn, is one cause of that kind of cooking, which makes all things taste ahke; broth looking as if it were milky, or tasting of burnt grease; and milk tasting of broth. Cleanliness, attention, handiness, and economy, will enable a wo¬ man to make wholesome cookery. When once she knows what she has to do, and how to do it, the rest depends upon her own qualities, more than upon the number of her utensils, or the size of her stove. Soyer, who deserves our respect for many good services to the sick and wounded, says, that with a gridiron, a frying-pan, and baking- pan, nearly one-half of the receipts in his ‘ Shilling Cookery for the People ’ may be done; certam it is, that a great variety of utensils are unnecessary. The rich, who in health accustom themselves to many luxuries, often require in sickness rich soups and jellies; poorer people may console themselves with the knowledge, that, as they are not accus¬ tomed to these things hi health, so in sickness are they often un¬ necessary, occasionally injurious.