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Foods, Drugs and Sweetmeats. 



FOOD AND DRUGS. By E. J. Parry, B.Sc, F.I.C, F.C.S. 

 Volume 1. The Analysis of Food and Drugs (Chemical and Microscopi- 

 cal). Volume I., Royal 8vo. 724 pp. Price 21s. net (Post free, 21s. 8d. 

 home; 22s. abroad). Volume II. The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 

 1875-19U7. Volume II., Royal 8vo. 184 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net (Post free, 

 7s. lOd. home; Ss. abroad). [Just published. 



Contents of Volume I. 



Tea, Cocra and Chocolate, Coffee— Milk, Cheese, Butter, Lard, Suet, Olive Oil— The Car- 

 bohydrate Foods — The Starches and Starchy Foods — Spices, Flavouring Essences, etc.— 

 Alcoholic Beverages — Flesh Foods — Microscopical Analysis — Drugs containing Alkaloids, etc. 

 — Drugs (generally) — The Essential Oils of the British Pharmacopoeia — Fatty Oils, Waxes, and 

 Soaps of the British Pharmacopoeia — The Chemicals of the British Pharmacopceia. 



Contents of Volume II. 



The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875 — Description of Offences— Appointment and D ties 

 of Analysts, and Proceedings to obtain Analysis — Proceedings against Offenders — Expenses of 

 executing the Act — The Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment Act, 1879 — The Sale of Food 

 and Drugs Acts, 1899— The Margarine Act, 1887- The Butter and Margarme Act, 1907. 



THE MANUFACTURE OF PRESERVED FOODS AND 



SWEETMEATS. By A. Hausxer. With Twenty-eight 

 Illustrations. Translated from the German of the third enlarged 

 Edition. Crown 8vo. 225 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s, 9d. 

 home; 7s. lOd. abroad.) 



Contents. 



The Manufacture of Conserves — Introduction — The Causes of the Putrefaction of Food 

 — The Chemical Composition of Foods — The Products of Decomposition — The Causes of Fer- 

 mentation and Putrefaction — Preservative Bodies— The Various Methods of Preserving Food 

 — The Preservation of Animal Food — Preserving Meat by Means of Ice — The Preservation 

 ■ of Meat by Charcoal — Preservation of Meat by Drying — The Preservation of Meat by the 

 Exclusion of Air — The Appert Method — Preserving Flesh by Smoking — Ouicit Smoking — Pre- 

 serving Meat with Salt — Quick Salting by Air Pressure — Quick Salting by Liquid Pressure — 



• Gamgee's Method of Preserving Meat — The Preservation of Eggs — Preservation of White 

 and Yolk of Egg — Milk Preservation — Condensed Milk — The Preservation of Fat — Manu- 

 facture of Soup Tablets — Meat Biscuits — Extract of Beef — The Preservation of Vegetable 

 Foods in General — Compressing Vegetables — Preservation of Vegetables by Appert's Method 

 — The Preservation of Fruit — Preservation of Fruit by Storage — The Preservation of Fruit 

 by Drying — Drying Fruit by Artificial Heat — Roasting Fruit — The Preservation of Fruit with 

 Sugar — Boiled Preser\ed Fruit — The Preservation of Fruit in Spirit, Acetic Acid or Glycerine 

 — Preser\ation of Fruit without Boiling — Jam Manufacture — The Manufacture of Fruit 

 Jellies — The Making of Gelatine Jellies — The Manufacture of " Sulzen " — The Preservation of 

 Fermented Beverages — The Manufacture of Candies — Introduction — The Manufacture of 



• Candied Fruit — The Manufacture of Boiled Sugar and Caramel — The Candying of Fruit — 

 Caramelised Fruit — The Manufacture of Sugar Sticks, or Barley Sugar — Bonbon Making — 

 Fruit Drops — The Manufacture of Dragees — The Machinery and Appliances used in Candy 

 Manufacture — Dyeing Candies and Bonbons — Essential Oils used in Candy Making — Fruit 

 Essences — The Manufacture of Filled Bonbons, Liqueur Bonbons and Stamped Lozenges — 

 Recipes for Jams and Jellies — Recipes for Bonbon Making — Dragees — Appendix — Index. 



RECIPES FOR THE PRESERVING OF FRUIT, VEGE- 

 TABLES AND MEAT. By E. Wagner. Translated 

 from the German. Crown 8vo. 125 pp. With 14 Illustrations. Price 

 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 3d. home; 5s. 4d. abroad.) 



Dyeing Fancy Goods. 



•THE ART OF DYEING AND STAINING MARBLE, 

 ARTIFICIAL STONE, BONE, HORN, IVORY AND 

 WOOD, AND OF IMITATING ALL SORTS OF 

 WOOD. A Practical Handbook for the Use of Joiners, 

 Turners, Manufacturers of Fancy Goods, Stick and Umbrella Makers, 

 Comb Makers, etc. Translated from the German of D. H. Soxhlet, 

 Technical Chemist. Crown 8vo. 168 pp. Price 5s net. Post free, 

 5s. 3d. home ; 5s. 4d. abroad.) 



