A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons / Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy

CONTENTS.

Preliminary Observations on the Adulteration of Food	Page 13
Effect of different Kinds of Water employed in Domestic Economy	33
Characters of Good Water	37
Chemical Constitution of the Waters used in Domestic Economy and the Arts	40
Rain Water	40
Snow Water	41
Spring Water	42
River Water	44
Substances usually contained in Common Water, and Tests by which they are detected	48
Method of ascertaining the Quantity of each of the different Substances usually contained in Common Water	54
Deleterious Effects of keeping Water for Domestic Economy, in Leaden Reservoirs	60
Method of detecting Lead, when contained in common Water	69
Adulteration of Wine	74
Method of detecting the Deleterious Adulterations of Wine	86
Specific Differences, and Component Parts of Wine	89
Easy process of ascertaining the Quantity of Brandy contained in various sorts of Wine	92
Tabular View, exhibiting the Per Centage of Brandy or Alcohol contained in various kinds of Wine and other fermented Liquors	94
Constitution of Home-made Wines	96
Adulteration of Bread	98
Method of detecting the Presence of Alum in Bread	108
Easy Method of judging of the Goodness of Bread-Corn and Bread-Flour	110
Adulteration of Beer	113
List of Druggists and Grocers, prosecuted and convicted for supplying illegal Ingredients to Brewers for Adulterating Beer	119
Porter	121
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