LEEDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Special Collections Cookery Bateman Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/b21539418 A GOOD SUGGESTION IS OFTEN INVALUABLE. THE BOOK THAT EVERY FAMILY NEEDS. PREFACED AND IMPROVED WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, BY THE AUTHOR OF “ENQUIRE WITHIN.” THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE LEARNED FROM THE MEREST TRIFLE. Made and Printed in Great Britain by Truslove & Bray, Ltd., West Norwood, S.E.27. CONSULT ME HOW TO COOK Meats, Poultry, Fi3h, Game, Vegetables, Soups, Gravies, Sauces, Meat Pies, Puddings, Food for the Sick, etc. CONSULT ME ON CONFECTIONERY; How to Make Biscuits, Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Creams, Cheesecakes, Jellies, etc., to Preserve, etc., — and the Art of Sugar Boiling, Candying, to Make Sweetmeats, etc. CONSULT ME, I will Teach you How to Brew, to Make Wines, Cordials, Tinctures, to Pickle, etc. CONSULT ME ON HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMY; I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO WASH, Get UP LlNEN, POLISH FURNITURE to Keep the House Clean and Sweet — to Beautify the Person, etc. CONSULT ME ON DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES, And I will point out their Symptoms, their Causes, and their •Cure ; based chiefly on the Medico-Botanical System, bo Safe, Effectual, Cheap, and Rational. How to Cure Colds, Coughs, Asthma, Consumption, Aches, Pains, Bruises, Burns, etc., etc. To Make Bitters, Decoctions, Extracts, Electuaries, Fomentations, Gargles, Infusions, Injections, Lotions, Ointments, Pills, Plasters, Salves, etc. CONSULT ME on the Games of Cards, Chess, etc. CONSULT ME HOW TO DYE In Modern Style, and the Newest Colours. CONSULT ME as to Married Women’s Property, CONSULT ME On the Cold Water Cure, and on a Thousand Other Things. NEW EDITION PREFACED AND IMPROVED WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR OF "ENQUIRE WITH IK." LONDON: W. NICHOLSON AND SONa 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, E.C.4. . 3 ■ 1 * \ * CONSULT ME, PREFACED AND IMPROVED BY THE AUTHOR OF “ENQUIRE WITHIN.” EING solicited to make an earnest and impartial exam- ination of “CONSULT ME,” and, as Author and Compiler of “Enquire Within,” to intimate such approvals or revisals as appeared to be necessary, I consented to undertake the duties, with mistrust and surprise, fearing that something in the way of “puffery” from one of the most popular Domestic Bookmakers might be expected. But I have no hesitation in now stating that I have never met with a work of its class, embracing so great a variety of subjects, that could meritoriously compare with “CONSULT ME.” I have carefully read and mentally weighed every para- * graph or article occupying the “CONSULT ME” pages. And I doubt whether, upon practical domestic subjects — upon preservation of health — and prevention and cure of disease, such an amount of reliable matter, from old to young, experi- enced to inert, can be equalled or excelled elsewhere. And, as old people often turn to younger ones, to learn what is now going on — approved or disapproved — and often desire to see the realization of what they may previously have anticipated, or the substitution of some improvement there- upon— so I, at mature age, alike vital and literary — have taken the next great favourite of the thoughtful public, by a friendly hand. With becoming modesty, he has exclaimed : , 6 t PREFACE. “ I shall be pleased it you, once my strong and healthy Leader, will, in treading the down-hill of life, sometimes “CONSULT ME.”

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LEEDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Special Collections Cookery Bateman Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/b21539418 A GOOD SUGGESTION IS OFTEN INVALUABLE. THE BOOK THAT EVERY FAMILY NEEDS. PREFACED AND IMPROVED WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, BY THE AUTHOR OF “ENQUIRE WITHIN.” THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE LEARNED FROM THE MEREST TRIFLE. Made and Printed in Great Britain by Truslove & Bray, Ltd., West Norwood, S.E.27. CONSULT ME HOW TO COOK Meats, Poultry, Fish, Game, Vegetables, Soups, Gravies, Sauces, Meat Pies, Puddings, Food for the Sick, etc. CONSULT ME ON CONFECTIONERY; How to Make Biscuits, Cakes, Pies, Tarts, Creams, Cheesecakes, Jellies, etc., to Preserve, etc., — and the Art of Sugar Boiling, Candying, to Make Sweetmeats, etc. CONSULT ME, I will Teach you How to Brew, to Make Wines, Cordials, Tinctures, to Pickle, etc. CONSULT ME ON HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMY; I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO WASH, Get UP LlNEN, POLISH FURNITURE to Keep the House Clean and Sweet — to Beautify the Person, etc. CONSULT ME ON DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES, And I will point out their Symptoms, their Causes, and their •Cure ; based chiefly on the Medico-Botanical System, bo Safe, Effectual, Cheap, and Rational. How to Cure Colds, Coughs, Asthma, Consumption, Aches, Pains, Bruises, Burns, etc., etc. To Make Bitters, Decoctions, Extracts, Electuaries, Fomentations, Gargles, Infusions, Injections, Lotions, Ointments, Pills, Plasters, Salves, etc. CONSULT ME on the Games of Cards, Chess, etc. CONSULT ME HOW TO DYE In Modern Style, and the Newest Colours. CONSULT ME as to Married Women’s Property, CONSULT ME On the Cold Water Cure, and on a Thousand Other Things. NEW EDITION PREFACED AND IMPROVED WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR OF "ENQUIRE WITH IK." LONDON: W. NICHOLSON AND SONS 14 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, E.C.4. . ■ * \ * CONSULT ME, PREFACED AND IMPROVED BY THE AUTHOR OF “ENQUIRE WITHIN.” Being solicited to make an earnest and impartial examination of "CONSULT ME," and, as Author and Compiler of "Enquire Within," to intimate such approvals or revisals as appeared to be necessary, I consented to undertake the duties, with mistrust and surprise, fearing that something in the way of “puffery” from one of the most popular Domestic Bookmakers might be expected. But I have no hesitation in now stating that I have never met with a work of its class, embracing so great a variety of subjects, that could meritoriously compare with “CONSULT ME.” I have carefully read and mentally weighed every para- * graph or article occupying the “CONSULT ME” pages. And I doubt whether, upon practical domestic subjects — upon preservation of health — and prevention and cure of disease, such an amount of reliable matter, from old to young, experienced to inert, can be equalled or excelled elsewhere. And, as old people often turn to younger ones, to learn what is now going on — approved or disapproved — and often desire to see the realization of what they may previously have anticipated, or the substitution of some improvement thereupon— so I, at mature age, alike vital and literary — have taken the next great favourite of the thoughtful public, by a friendly hand. With becoming modesty, he has exclaimed : , t PREFACE. “ I shall be pleased it you, once my strong and healthy Leader, will, in treading the down-hill of life, sometimes “CONSULT ME.”

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