LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A Cornish Stiller of Herbs Frontispiece |
  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A Cornish Stiller of Herbs Frontispiece Symbols of Distillation Page 3 Alchemist in his Laboratory " 5 Alchemist performing Mystic Rites " 7 Diaphragm Churn " 10 Melotte Cream Separator To face page 10 A Small Butter-worker Page 11 Milk-Strainer for use with Muslin " 13 Double Pan for Devonshire Cream-raising " 13 A Self-skimming Porcelain Milk-pan " 14 Butter-scoop " 14 Old Distilling Furnaces and Stills " 35 Distilling Oyle out of Seedes " 43 A Fruit-room " 59 Orr's Fruit-storing Trays To face page 60 Lee's Steam Fruit Preserving Apparatus " " 62 Ryland's Fruit Bottles Page 64 Lee's Fruit Bottles and Boiler To face page 64 Barnett and Foster's Spile-drawer Page 74 A Group of Drinking-glasses " 82 A Group of Ancient Bottles " 83 A Simple Fruit-mill " 84 Cork-driver " 84 A Group of Modern Bottles " 86 A Wine Filter-bag " 88 Balneum MariAE " 93 Distilling by Heat of Steam Page 93 Some old Distilling Vessels " 95 Distilling by Heat of Fermenting Manure " 97 Alchemist with his Servant " 97 A 16th-century Still, with Condenser Jacket to Helm of Still " 99 " The Instrument named the Pellicane " " 99
The Still-Room
“The preparation of meats and bread and drinks, that they may be rightly handled, and in order to this intention, is of exceedingly great moment; howsomever it may seem a mechanical thing and savouring of the kitchen and buttery, yet it is of more consequence than those fables of gold and precious stones and the like.”—Bacon.
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