ns will afford
sufficient variety, from the simple every-day fare to more tasty dishes
for the birthday, Christmas-day, or other festive occasions.

In order to carry out my instructions properly, a few utensils will be
necessary. Industry, good health, and constant employment, have, in many
instances, I trust, enabled those whom I now address to lay by a little
sum of money. A portion of this will be well spent in the purchase of
the following articles:--A cooking-stove, with an oven at the side, or
placed under the grate, which should be so planned as to admit of the
fire being open or closed at will; by this contrivance much heat and
fuel are economized; there should also be a boiler at the back of the
grate. By this means you would have hot water always ready at hand, the
advantage of which is considerable. Such poor men's cooking-stoves
exist, on a large scale, in all modern-built lodging-houses. Also, a
three-gallon iron pot with a lid to it, a one-gallon saucepan, a
two-quart ditto, a frying-pan, a gridiron, and a strong tin baking-dish.

Here is a list of the cost prices at which the above-named articles, as
well as a few others equally necessary, may be obtained of all
ironmongers:--

L _s._ _d._

A cooking-stove, 2 ft. 6 in. wide, with oven only 1 10 0
Ditto, with oven and boiler 1 18 0
A three-gallon oval boiling pot 0 4 6
A one-gallon tin saucepan, and lid 0 2 6
A two-quart ditto 0 1 6
A potato steamer 0 2 0
An oval frying-pan, from 0 0 10
A gridiron, from 0 1 0
A copper for washing or brewing, twelve gallons 1 10 0
A mash-tub, from 0 10 0
Two cooling-tubs (or an old wine or beer cask cut
in halves, would be cheaper, and answer the same
purpose), each 6_s._ 0 12 0
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L6 12 4
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To those of my readers who, from sickness or other hindrance, have not
money in store, I would say, strive to lay by a little of your weekly
wages to purchase these things, that yo