Economy for the single and married; or, the young Wife and Bachelor's Guide to income and expenditure, etc. By one who “makes ends meet.”1845 |
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100 per annum a-year additional surplus bachelor Beer boiled beef bread breakfast Britannia Metal brush butter Calf's Carpets Carrot Pudding cayenne Cayenne pepper chambers Charity Cheshire cheese Church Clean Plate cloth Coals coffee-house cold water comforts cream dinner dish domestic drachm dress Dumplings eggs estimate excursions expenditure expenses extras fire flannel flavour flour Fried Fuller's earth furnishing furniture ginger give grated gravy GUIDE half a pound hour Income of 100 Jerusalem Artichokes keep lady lemon linen London married couple means meat moisten Mutton nutmeg ounce Oyster Peas Soup pepper pickled pint Pogson port wine possessor Potatoes powdered price One Shilling Puff Paste rape oil Remove Grease Roast roll salt Sauce saucepan scour Servants SINGLE AND MARRIED small quantity soap soda spirit Stewed suet sugar sweetbread veal Vegetables vinegar waiter ld Washing wife wine