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 MARIÆ ” 93
DISTILLING BY HEAT OF STEAM ” 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
STILLS AT THE WORKS OF THE LONDON ESSENCE CO. _To face page_ 100
BALNEUM MARIÆ _Page_ 101
FURNACE WITH STILLS ” 101
STILL-ROOM OF THE LONDON ESSENCE CO. _To face page_ 102
FURNACE WITH STILLS _Page_ 103
PERSIAN ROSE-WATER SPRINKLER ” 104
A PERFORATED WATER-BATH ” 105
A PORTABLE COPPER STILL ” 105
OLD APPARATUS USED FOR CONDENSING THE DISTILLATE ” 107
“BEHOLDE HERE A MANNER OR FASHION OF BALNEO MARIÆ” ” 109
OLD VESSELS USED IN DISTILLING ” 110
TENDING THE FURNACE ” 110
BALNEUM MARIÆ ” 110
COPPER SPIRIT-MEASURE ” 115
COPPER FUNNEL ” 115
COFFEE ROASTER _To face page_ 120
BEER WARMER OR MULLER _Page_ 122
SOME OLD MORTARS ” 131
PERSIAN INCENSE BURNER ” 147
_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.
_The STILL-ROOM_