Includes recipes for deserts, for preserving fruits, vegetables, nuts, making sauces, cordials, jellies, ice cream, syllabub, wines, condiments, brewing beer, etc. plus an appendix containing advice for good health, transplanting trees, preserving flowers, making ox gall, cleaning silks, woolens and cottons, cleaning carpets, removing stains, dental health, healing cuts and bruises, curing piles, making Beef Tea, etc.