The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning
A Manual for House Keepers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning: A Manual for House Keepers<br><br>In this age of applied science, every opportunity of benefiting the household should be seized upon.<br><br>The family is the heart of the country's life, and every philanthropist or social scientist must begin at that point. Whatever, then, will enlighten the mind, and lighten the burden of care, of every housekeeper will be a boon.<br><br>At the present time, when electric light and the gas stove are familiar topics, there is, after all, no branch of science which might be of more benefit to the community, if it were properly understood, than Chemistry - the Chemistry of Common Life.<br><br>There is a space yet unoccupied for an elementary work which shall give to non-scientific readers some practical information as to the chemical composition of articles of daily use, and as to their action in the various operations in which they are employed.<br><br>The public are the more ready for the application of this knowledge since Chemistry is taught in nearly all high schools, and most persons have a dim idea of what some part of it means. To gather up these indistinct notions into a definite and practical form is the aim of this little book.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.