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A Treatise On Adulterations Of Food, And Culinary Poisons

A Treatise On Adulterations Of Food, And Culinary Poisons

by Friedrich Christian Accum

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Author
Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
Title
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy
Credits
Produced by Ben Beasley, Lisa Reigel, Michael Zeug, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
Language
English
LoC Class
TX: Technology: Home economics
Subject
Food adulteration and inspection
Category
Text
eBook-No.
19031
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19031
Release Date
August 12, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A — TREATISE — ON — ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD, — AND CULINARY POISONS . — EXHIBITING
  2. 2.METHODS OF DETECTING THEM. — By Fredrick Accum , — OPERATIVE CHEMIST, AND MEMBER OF THE PRINCIPAL ACADEMIES AND SOCIETIES OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN EUROPE. — Philadelphia: — PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AB'M SMALL — 1820.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD, — AND — CULINARY POISONS.
  6. 6.PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
  7. 7.REMARKS — Effect of different Kinds of Waters — DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND THE ARTS; — METHODS OF ASCERTAINING THEIR PURITY.
  8. 8.Adulteration of Wine.
  9. 9.Adulteration of Bread.
  10. 10.Adulteration of Beer.
  11. 11.Counterfeit Tea-Leaves.
  12. 12.Counterfeit Coffee.
  13. 13.Adulteration of Brandy, Rum, and Gin.
  14. 14.Poisonous Cheese.
  15. 15.Counterfeit Pepper.
  16. 16.Poisonous Cayenne Pepper.
  17. 17.Poisonous Pickles.
  18. 18.Adulteration of Vinegar.
  19. 19.Adulteration of Cream.
  20. 20.Poisonous Confectionery.
  21. 21.Poisonous Catsup.
  22. 22.Poisonous Custard.
  23. 23.Poisonous Anchovy Sauce.
  24. 24.Adulteration of Lozenges.
  25. 25.Poisonous Olive Oil.
  26. 26.Adulteration of Mustard.
  27. 27.Adulteration of Lemon Acid.
  28. 28.Poisonous Mushrooms.
  29. 29.Poisonous Soda Water.
  30. 30.Food poisoned by Copper Vessels.
  31. 31.Food Poisoned by Leaden Vessels.
  32. 32.INDEX. — THE END.
  33. 33.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

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