Scullery Work

K. Mary E. Shaw. - Housewifery -

Stitching of linen on book cover along with pencil notes.

Inscription: K. Mary E. Shaw 76. Preson Street Faversham Kent Battersea Polytechnic Institute

Note: "Know well your subject, and the words will go to the pen's point with steady ceaseless flow."

Housewifery Syllabus Sept. 1904. Syllabus listed as: 1. Scullery Work 2. House & Parlour Work 3. Hygiene 4. First Aid 5. Sick Nursing 6. Keeping Accounts

Theory: notes on uses of metals and how to clean them.

Blackboard Summary: Cleaning and Care of Silver.

Theory: cleaning and care of silver continued.

Cleaning and care of silver continued with illustration of storage of silver spoons.

Illustrations of plate brush, plate basket, silver spoon and fork, and selvyt cloth.

List of prices of cleaning products.

Illustrations: "Specimens of Pickel Plate." Illustrations of cutlery labelled Fiddle, Old English, Kings, Rat-Tail, Bead, and Threaded.

Illustrations of "Silver and Plated Specimens" of tea and coffee ware.

Notes on merits of types of tin. Illustrations of pots and pans.

Blackboard Summary: Cleaning Tin and Aluminium. Notes on tin.

Theory: cleaning tin. Illustrations of sheet tin kettles and tin steamer and cafetiere.

Blackboard Summary: cleaning tin.

Theory: notes on cleaning aluminium.

Blackboard Summary: cleaning aluminium.

Theory: cleaning of copper, brass, and candlesticks.

Blackboard Summary: Cleaning Brass and Copper. Illustrations of saucepan brushes and copper saucepan.

Theory: Recipe and Polish and notes on laquer and turpentine.

Blackboard Summary: Laquered Brass and Copper. Ilustrations of brass candlestick and jardinier and copper mould.

Theory: types and qualities of iron. Illustrations of enamelled lipped saucepan, enamelled milk saucepan, cast iron saucepan, and wrought iron saucepan.

Blackboard Summary: Cleaning Iron and Enamelled Saucepans.

Theory: illustrations of unbreakable saucepan and iron preserving pan.

Blackboard Summary: prices of cleaning materials and saucepans.

Theory: care of iron saucepans. Illustrations of meat board and pastry board.

Blackboard Summary: Care of Saucepans. The Cleaning and Care of Wooden Utensils: Kinds of Wood.

Theory: cleaning of wooden materials. Illustration of wooden butter pat, bread board and knife, and butter slice.

Blackboard Summary: cleaning of wooden materials.

Notes: illustrations of wooden plate rack, flour tub, soap dish, seive, and meat cupboard.

Blackboard Summary: cleaning wooden materials. List of prices wooden and cleaning materials.

Notes: information on knife handles.

Blackboard Summary: Choice, Care, and Cleaning of Knives.

Theory: cleaning of knives. Illustrations of knives showing methods of riveting knife handles to blades.

Blackboard Summary: cleaning knives, cleaning on a board, and care for knives when not in use.

Theory: machines to clean knives. Illustrations of knives with ivory handle, white bone handle, black wood handle, and horn handle.

Blackboard Summary: care of knives when not in use, continued, points to remember, and to clean forks (steel). Illustration of horn handled carving knife.

Theory: shoe material. Illustrations of black leather, patent leather, glace kid, and box calf shoes.

Blackboard Summary: the Choice, Care, and Cleaning of Boots & Shoes. Subheadings: Kinds, Choice, Prices.

Theory: brushes for shoe cleaning. Illustrations of blacking brush, polishing brush, and dirt brush.

Blackboard Summary: Prices of Brushes and Cleaning Materials. Illustrations of wooden boot tree and Watts patent boot tree.

Notes: cleaning of shoes and boots. Illustrations of proper shoe fitting.

Blackboard Summary: Cleaning Boots and Shoes - Blacking Leather vs. Glace Kid. Brown Shoes.

Notes: storage and waterproofing of boots and shoes.

Blackboard Summary: Care of Boots and Shoes, and Recipe for Waterproofing for Boots and Shoes.

Theory: disadvantages of using water for cleaning. Illustration of galvanized can.

Blackboard Summary: Cleaning Galvanized Tins, Cans and Pails, etc.

The Method Laying [continued on page 49] A Dinner Table. Menu for four persons. Illustrations of cheese scoop and pickle fork.

The Method Laying [continued from page 48] A Dinner Table: Points to Remember and Preparation. Illustration of knife rest, biscuit box, muffiner, and mustard pot.

Recipe continued from page 48. Notes on preparing the table

Blackboard Summary: Order of the Laying of a Table. Illustrations of champagne jug, claret jug, and spirit decanter. Illustrations of flower piece, crocodile mat, and leather mat.

Laying of a Table continued from page 51. Illustrations of water jug, crumb scoop, celery glass, and salad bowl.

Lists of Things for General Use and Things for Personal Use on a table. Illustrations of dinner cruet, lunch cruet, pickel cruet, and tray.

General Rules and the [continued onto page 55] Order of Washing Up.

General Rules and the [continued from page 54] Order of Washing Up: Collecting, scraping, and Order of Washing Up. Illustrations of chafing dish and dish cover.

Order of Washing Up continued from page 55. Illustration of sauce boat.

Order of Washing Up (continued). Illustrations of plate rack and drawer, plate rate, dinner plate, and entree dish. Clearing up.

Clearing up continued, and the Cleaning of Stoves: advantages and disadvantages of closed range, and advantages of open range.

Clearing up continued from page 57. The Cleaning of Stoves: kinds of stoves. Illustration of gold medal eagle range.

Continued from page 58: disadvantages of open range stoves, and advantages and disadvantages of gas and oil stoves.

Blackboard Summary: gas stoves and oil stoves. Illustration of oil stove.

Disadvantages of oil stoves continued from page 60. Advantages and disadvantages of electric stoves. Notes on cleaning of stoves.

Blackboard Summary: gas stoves (continued from page 61) and electric stoves. Cleaning open and closed ranges.

Notes continued from page 62.

Laying of Fires, Clearing Away, and Removal of Dirt in stoves.

Prepatation (of fires in stove). Cleaning of resevoirs and gas stoves.

Cleaning of Stoves.

Cleaning Utensils and Prices.

Cleaning gas stoves (continued from page 67). Illustrations of port glass, sherry glass, champagne glass, finger bowl, claret glass, tumber [i.e. tumbler], liquer glass, and soda tumbler.