A Condensed Chapter On
A Condensed Chapter On Sugar. We Are Perhaps Possessed Of A Devil—the Devil Of Unrest—but We Propose To Indulge In Continued Activity On The Subject Of Sugar Sales And The Nonsense Of Losing Money On Them Until Wewear Out A Gross Of The Free Sample Pens Which Esterbrook Is Distributing, ...
Adulteration
Adulteration. The Grocer Is Never An Advocate Of Adulteration. Manufacturers Adulterate For The Sake Of Profit, And Are Generally Driven To It Unwillingly By The General Demand For Cheap Goods. A Fair Price Is Necessary To Secure Pure Goods. The Cry About A. Gees To Great Extremes, And No Sensible ...
Apples
Apples. This Well Known Fruit Has Been Much Improved By Cultivation From Its Original Wild State, Which Is Still Seen In The Crab Apple. This Is A Small, Almost Uneatable, Acid Fruit, And Yet It Is The Parent Of The Almost Innumerable Varieties Now Used In Such Various Ways, In ...
Banana
Banana. This Noble Plant Is A Native Of The East Indies But Now Cultivated In All Warm Countries. It Is The Most Prolific Vegetable Known. Thirty To Forty Plants Will Grow In A Space Of Forty Feet Square. It Is A Kind Of Palm Which Reaches 15 To 20 Feet ...
Barter
Barter. Dealing By An Exchange Of Goods. This Was The Original Mode Of Dealing Before The Use Of Money And Is Still Very Common Wherever Money And Banking Facilities Are Scarce. Coun Try Dealers Are Often Obliged To Take Eggs, Butter, Etc., As Pay For Sugar, Starch And Soap, And ...
Canned Goods
Canned Goods. The Preservation Of Fruits And Vegeta Bles By Hermetically Sealing Them, Is Not A New Process, But Its Great Development Into A Separate Industry, Is Comparatively Re Cent. During The Mexican War, It Received Its First Start As A Bus Iness In The U. S., And During The ...
Cheese
Cheese. Is Made From Milk Caused To Coagulate By The Ad Dition Of Some Acid (usually Rennet) And Separating The Curd From The Whey And Pressing It In Suitable Moulds. There Are Many Varieties Of C. Usually Named From The Places Where They Were First Produced. Some Of The Most ...
Coffee
Coffee. This Well Know Article Of Commerce Is Composed Of The Seeds Of The Berry (see Full Page Illustration) Of The Coffee-tree, Which Grows In All Warm Climates. The Different Grades In The Market Come From Different Varieties Of The Tree, And Different Countries Where It Is Produced. Thus, Java ...
Condensed Milk
Condensed Milk. The Manufacture Of Condensed Milk Is Thus Described :—" When The Milk Is Brought Intu The Factory It Is Carefully Strained, Placed In Cans Or Pails, Which Are Put Into A Tank Of Water Kept Hot By Steam Coils. When Hot It Is Transferred To Larger, Steam-heated, Open ...
Crab
Crab. The Popular Name Of All Crustaceans. There Are A Great Variety Of Them ; Some Existing Entirely In The Sea, Others In Shallow Water Both Fresh And Salt, While Other Species May Be Found On The Land. The Catch And Canning Of Crabs On The Chesapeake Is Thus Described ...
Cream Of Tartar
Cream Of Tartar Is Obtained By Refining The Argol, (which See) Found In The Juice Of Grapes. It Has An Acid, Cooling Taste And Is Used In The Preparation Of Summer Drinks And As An Aid In Raising Bread And Cakes. It Is Almost Universally Largely Adulterated, Being Sometimes Not ...
Eggs
Eggs. Extensively Employed In Cake Baking And General Cooking. Where Used By Themselves They Form A Very Nutritious Article Of Food. Eggs Should Not Be Allowed To Lie Too Long On One Side, As The Yolk Gradually Sinks Down Through The White Of The Egg, And When It Touches The ...
Etc Fees
Fees, Etc., To Sealers Of Weights And Measures In Pennsylvania. These Officers Are Entitled To Demand And Receive The Following Fees, To Wit: For The Trial And Balancing Of Every Set Of Scales, Ten Cents; Of Every Patent Balance, Twenty Cents; Of Every Set Of Coal Or Hay Scales, Two ...
Fire Works
Fire-works. Grocers And Country Dealers Are Often Tempt Ed By The Prospective Profit In Fire-works To Put Them In Stock About The 4th Of July. They Detract From The Attention To The Regular Business Of A Store, Are Very Dangerous In Themselves And Unless Covered By Payment Of An Extra ...
Flour
Flour. Grain Of Any Kind Ground To A Dust, Although The Term Is Generally Used As Meaning More Especially Wheat Dust. It Stands First Of All Other Articles Used In The Line Of Food. It Is An Article Of Prime Importance To The Grocer, As The Quality Of Flour Which ...
Grape
Grape. Fruit Of The Vine Of Many Various Species, Both American And European. The Fruit Is Largely Consumed As It Ripens, And Also In Making Wines And Raisins. The Dried Currants Of Commerce Are A Small Grape Peculiar To The Islands Of Greece. California Grapes Are Now The Finest In ...
Lamps
Lamps. Receptacles In Which Oil Is Burned By Means Of A Wick, And Used As An Illuminating Power. There Was A Time When Lamps Seemed Destined To Be Entirely Superseded By Gas, But Recently, In Consequence Of The High Charge For Gas And The Great Improvement In Kerosene And In ...
Lard Cheese
Lard Cheese. The Skimmed 'milk Is Poured Into A Large Cheese-vat, Says The 11'. Y. Grocer, And Thoroughly Mixed With The Buttermilk, Which Has Just Been Drained From The Butter. Three Hundred Pounds Of Fresh Milk Are Then Poured Into A Large Tin Bucket, Beside Which Is Another Tin Bucket ...
Limburger Cheese
Limburger Cheese. Thousands Of Tons Of Limburger Are Now Produced Every Season, Mostly In The States Of New York And Wisconsin, Says The Commercial Bulletin, At A Cost Of Less Than Half Of The Imported Article. It Is Consumed Mostly By Our German-american Population. The Process Of Manufacture In Its ...
Lime
Lime. A Fruit Of The Orange Species, Grown Abundantly In The West Indies, In India, And In Some Parts Of Europe. Smaller Than The Lemon (about 11 Inches In Diameter And Almost Globular), It Has A Very Thin Skin And An Abundant Juice, Which Makes Its Relative Value Much Greater ...
Macaroni
Macaroni. This Article Of Universal Consumption In Europe Is Strictly An Italian Invention (originally Made Of Cheese And Paste ; For A Very Long Period Its Manufacture Was Entirely Confined To That Country, The Finest Qualities Even To-day Being Made There, Correctly Speaking, The Name Macaroni Applies Only To Wheaten ...
Mackerel
Mackerel, Considered By Many The Most Beautiful Of All Fish Which Find Their Way To Our Markets, Are Usually Seen Here About The Beginning Of May. They Are Seldom Brought In A Live State To Our Markets, Being Generally Handled Salted In Barrels ; But Of Late Years Appearing In ...
Manufacturers
Manufacturers. Formerly The Distinction Between The Jobber And The Manufacturer Was More Plainly Marked Than At Present, It Being Very Usual Now For Wholesale Grocers To Put Up Goods Under Their Own Brands. This Forces The Manufacturer To Seek The Retail Trade Direct And Makes Many Changes In The Mode ...
Maple Sugar
Maple Sugar Is Made From The Sap Of The Sugar Maple, A Native Of The United States And Canada. The Sap Is Collected By Boring The Trees Several Feet Above The Ground To The Depth Of About Half-an-inch With An Auger. A Spout Or Lip Is Then Inserted In The ...
Matches
Matches. The Progress From Rubbing Sticks Together To Produce Fire Up To The Flint And Steel And Tinder Which Appeared To Be Always Damp, On To The First Match, Which Was Merely Tipped With Sulphur And Used In The Tinder, Thence To The "light-box," In Whieh Sulphuric Acid Served To ...
Meat
Meat. It Is Both Dangerous And Unprofitable For A Grocer To Sell Meats, Unless He Has His Store Well Fitted, So That He Can Handle Them With A Certain Degree Of Safety (see Store Fittings). With The Grocer The Great Enemy In Hot Weather Is The Fly, Which Leaves Its ...
Milk
Milk Is An Opaque, White Fluid, Secreted By The Mammary Glands Of The Female Class Illammalia. Among The Many Instru Ments Which Are Used For The Detection Of Adulterations, Are The Galactometer And The Hydrometer. The First Is A Simple And Most Reliable Method ; It Consists Of A Glass ...
Molasses
Molasses. Is The Syrup, Or, As It Is Termed In The Immediate Districts Where It Is Manufactured, The Mother-water, That Is Sepa Rated From The Crystals Or Grains Of Raw Sugar In The Process Of Manufacture; When The Sugar Is Becoming Dry Or Crystalized The Syrup Drops From The Grains ...
Mustard
Mustard. There Are Two Kinds Of Mustard Seed, Black And White. When The Condiment Now Known In The Grocery Stores As Mustard Was First Manufactured In England It Was Simply Nothing More Than The Crushed Seed. The Manipulation Gradually Developed As It Became Necessary For The Manufacturers To Cater To ...
Nutmegs
Nutmegs. This Popular And Well-kn Iwn Spice Is The Ker Nel Of A Fruit Termed Myristica. There Are In All Nearly Forty Species, All Tropical Trees. It Is A Native Of South America, Asia, And Madagascar, But It Is From The 111. Fatua We Procure The Nut Megs Of Commerce. ...
Oatmeal
Oatmeal Is Generally Denominated By The Cut, As Pinhead Rough Cut, Medium And Fine Cut, Though These Terms Have Different Meanings In Different Districts. After The Grinding The Meal Is Passed Through Sieves And The Siftings Graded According To Size_ It Would Be Well For Grocers To Remember That Oatmeal ...
Onion
Onion. A Common Garden Vegetable, Of The Lily Family, Which Is Cultivated In Great Variety And Supplied To The Markets Nearly All The Year Round. The Weathersfield Onion Is Most Com Monly Cultivated In This Country And Can Be Eaten Raw Or Cooked In Many Ways. The Onion Was Known ...
Oysters
Oysters. The Most Common Oyster In Our Market Is The Ostrea Virginiana, Found In All The Beds Of The Eastern States, Perhaps The Choicest Of Which Are Those From Chesapeake Bay, Where They Are Cultivated Very Extensively. The Total Oyster Trade, From Maine To California, Has Been Valued At $50,000,000 ...
Papa What Is A
What Is A Grocer, Papa "what Is A Grocer, Papa ?" "what Is A Grocer, Cud? Why He Is A Good Natured Man Who Deals In The Actual Necessities Of Life At The Corner And Is Too Humble To Believe For A Minute That He Has Any Rights. He Solicits ...
Partnership
Partnership. A Partnership Exists Wherever Two Or More Persons Combine Their Labor Or Capital, Or Both, With The In Tention Of Securing The Profits To Be Produced Thereby, The Terms Upon Which This Is To Be Done Are Regulated By The Agreement Of The Parties, And Are Generally, Although Not ...
Patent Medicines
Patent Medicines. See Medicine. Pea (the) Is One Of Our Most Valuable Table Vegetables, Its Nutritious Character Making It Very Desirable. When Purchased In The Pod They Should Be Kept In A Dry, Cool Place, And Never Allowed To Get Damp Or Warm They Are Very Extensively Canned Both In ...
Peanuts
Peanuts. The Plant Which Produces The Fruit Popularly Known As The Peanut In This Country, And As The Groundnut In Europe, Is One Of A Class Which Bury Their Pods In The Earth, Where They Ripen, Instead Of Raising Them Into The Free Air. In Order To Effect This, The ...
Pipes
Pipes. Among The Many Pipes Made For Smoking Tooacco The Common Clay Article Is First, Then Follows Those Manufactured From Wood, Such As Briar-root And Cherry. The Most Valuable Pipes Are The Meerschaums Manufactured From A Peculiar Min Eral Found In Alluvial Deposits Just Below The Soil In Many Parts ...
Pork
Pork. The Pre-eminent Position Occupied By Chicago In The Pork Trade Is Acknowledged Universally, Therefore, It May Be De Sirable, In Dealing With This Subject, To Give The Regulations En Forced There In The Curing, Packing And Branding Of This Article. A Number Of Inspectors Are Appointed By The Board ...
Potato
Potato. The Potato Is A Native Of The Elevated Valleys Of The Andes In Peru And Chili, And Is Found As Far North As Mexico. It Was Taken To Spain After The Discovery Of America, And Cultivated In Gardens As A Curiosity. The Tubers Being Small And Not Edible In ...
Prunes
Prunes. The Prunes Of Commerce Are The Dried Plums Of Certain Cultivated Varieties, And Are Obtained From France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Servia, Bosnia, And Other Sections Of The Turkish Empire. The Best Prunes Are Obtained From Bordeaux, The Chief Commercial City In The South Of France, And Are Grown ...
Rice
Rice Is The Seed Or Grain Of One Of The Grasses And Quite Com Mon In The Warm Countries. It Was First Introduced Into This Country In 1694, From Madagascar, By The Captain Of A Vessel, Who Presented A Bag Of Paddy (which See) To One Of The Merchants Of ...
Rope
Rope. A General Name For All Kinds Of Cordage Formed By Twisting Together A Collection Of Vegetable Or Animal Fibres, Or Metallic Wires. The Term Is More Correctly Applied To Cordage Which Is Above An Inch In Circumference, The Smaller Sorts Being Designated By The Names Of Twines, Cords And ...
Roquefort Cheese
Roquefort Cheese Is Made From The Milk Of Sheep And Goats, And Is A Very Popular Cheese Among Epicures. The Care And Skill Required In Its Manufacture Is Very Remarkable. The Great Herd Of Sheep At The Village Of Roquefort, In France, Is Pastured On An Immense Plain Of The ...
Salmon
Salmon, Considered Among The Most Delicious Of All Our Fish, Is Sold Fresh, But Is Not Thought To Be Good After It Has Left The Water Twelve Hours. It Is Mostly Dealt In By The Trade As Canned Goods, Being The Most Extensively Packed Of All Fish. There Are Innumerable ...
Salt
Salt. Common Salt Is Produced From Rock Salt, Or From Natural Brine From Wells Or Springs, Or By The Evaporation Of Sea Water. It Is Put Up For The Market In Various Ways, The Most Convenient For Handling Being Bags Of Three Pound Size. A Writer In The New England ...
Sardines
Sardines. The Sardine Fishery Is An Industry Which Has Long Played A Conspicuous Part In The Prosperity Of The Coast Pop Ulation Of France. Though Of Less Importance Than It Once Was, It Still Gives Employment To Not Less Than 2,500 Boats Of Seven Or Eight Tons Each, Manned By ...
Shot
Shot. One Of The Seerets Of The Manufacture Of Shot, Says The Baltimore American, Is The Mixing Of The Lead With A Certain Proportion Of A Combination Of Mineral Substances Called "temper." The Temper Is Fused With The Lead, And Gives The Metal That Molten Consistency Which Makes It Drop. ...
Snuff
Snuff Is A Form Of Manufactured Tobacco Used Very Exten Sively. The Grinding Is Usually Effected In Mortars Made Of Wood. Some Kinds Of Snuff Are Prepared From Kiln-dried Tobacco While Others Are Made From Soft Leaves. The Varieties Are Numer Ous, And Some Profess To Have Medicinal Properties. The ...
Soap
Soap Is Supposed To Be Of Celtic Origin, And Became Known To The Romans When They Invaded Gaul. A Complete Soap Factory Has Been Unearthed At Pompeii. Soap Consists Of Fats Or Other Oily Substances, Mixed With Water And Alkaline Ashes, So That Saponification Results. Its Manufacture Is More A ...
Some Sugar Plums For
Some Sugar Plums For Christmas. The Holiday Season Is Close Upon Us. Thanksgiving Day Gives The First Signal For Good Cheer, And Christmas And New Year Come Rapidly After, With Increasing Intensity In Their Glee And Their Good Things. The Trade Must Prepare In Earnest ; The Largest Outlays Of ...
Sorghum Sugar
Sorghum Sugar. The Nation Says That A Striking Feat Ure Of American Agriculture Is The Enormous Aggregate Yield Of Most Of The Crops Which Are Cultivated. This Truth Is Now Receiv Ing New Illustration By A Great Movement In The Cultivation Of Sorghum For Sugar, Which Is Rapidly Becoming A ...
Starch
Starch. Commercially, There Are Two Kinds Of Starch, Those Used For Food And Those Used For Manufacturing And Laundry Purposes. The Former Are Such As Arrow-root And Corn Starch, The Latter Chiefly Made From Wheat, Rice And Potatoes. Large Quantities Of Sago Starch Arc Prepared In India And Exported To ...
Statue Limitation
Limitation, Statue On Account Of The Frailty Of Human Memory And The Uncertainty Of Such Claims, All Countries Have Set A Limit Upon The Time Within Which Rights May Be Liti Gated, Called The Statute Of Limitations. The Statute Begins To Run When The Right Is Complete, I. E., The ...
Sugar
Sugar. Cane Sugar Is The Crystallized Portion Of The Juice Expressed From The Sugar Cane, And Forms The Main Article Of A Grocer's Stock. We Therefore Treat It Very Fully In The Following Pages, And For The Greater Convenience To The Reader Divide The Subject Into The Following Heads : ...
Swells
Swells. (see Canned Goods.) With Regard To This Subject A Writer In The Packer's Review Says: " At The Beginning, In Discussing The Subject Of Swells, It Is Well To Observe That All Vege Table Matter After The Process Of Growth Is Discontinued Begins To Decompose. Decomposition Is Its Inevitable ...
System Metrical
Metrical, System. The French System Of Measures, Which Was Adopted And Received The Sanction Of The French Gov Ernment November 2d, 1801, After A Most Elaborate Investigation By The Greatest Scientists Of France, Is Based On The Decimal Cal Culation And Is Intendel To Be The Standard Of All The ...
Taste
Taste. This Sense Varies Far More Widely Than Is Generally Supposed. The Trained And Delicate Taste Of The Wine Or Tea Sampler Is Not Merely A Matter Of Education. To Possess From Birth A Fine Capacity For Taste And Smell Is A Primary Requirement. In The Act Of Tasting Wines ...
The History Of A
The History Of A Barrel Of Sugar. There Was A Time When I Was Happy, Said The Ghost Of A Barrel Of Sugar, Now Rattling Among The Empty Staves Which It Had Once So Snugly Occupied. There Was A Time When I Was Full Of Life And Activity. I Was ...
Tobacco
Tobacco. The Dried Leaves Of This Plant Are Now Almost Universally Used As A Luxury In All Parts Of The Globe. First Used By The American Indians, And Carried To Europe As A Curiosity By The Early Discoverers Of Our Continent, It Is Now Cultivated In Every Quarter Of The ...
Tomato
Tomato, An Animal Plant Of The "nightshade" Family, The Fruit Of Which Was For A Long Time Not Generally Considered Fit For Food. The Origin Of The Tomato Has Not Been Positively Ascertained Though There Is Reason To Believe That It Was First Found In South America, And That It ...
Trichina
Trichina; Are Small Parasites Or Worms Which Are Found In Pork, And Which After Entering The Human System Breed Rapidly And Pass Directly Through The Walls Of The Intestines And Bury Themselves In The Muscles Of The Sufferer. The Young Are Barely Visible To The Naked Eye. They Can Exist ...
Vanilla
Vanilla. It Is Proposed To Trace Here The Production Of The Flavoring Substance Known As "vanilla," And To Show At What Cost The Caprice Of Man In Adding A Single Flavor To The Variety Of His Viands Is Gratified. The Vanilla Plant Is Found Native In Mexico, South America And ...
Varnish
Varnish. We Find In The Providence Journal Some Interest Ing Information In Reference To The Origin, Constituents, And Sources Of Varnish And Its Uses. The Best Varnish Is Ma Le From Gum Copal. The Name Is Derived From The Mexican Copalli. The Tree From Which This Gum Is Obtained Is ...
Washing Preparations
Washing Preparations. Under This Head May Be Classed Every Article Sold To Take The Place Of Soap. Washing Crystals Are Simply An Hydrous Carbonate Of Soda, Sometimes Ren Dered Caustic By The Addition Of Lime. Washing Fluids Are Gen Erally Based On Such Materials With The Addition Of Ammonia, And ...
Whale Oil
Whale Oil. This Most Valuable And Important Of All Liquid Animal Oils, Is Obtained Principally From Two Species Of Whale—the Sperm Whale And The Right Whale. The Former Or Cacholot, Known' Also As The Spermaceti Whale, Is Said To Inhabit Nearly All Seas And Has A Wide Geographical Range, It ...
Wheat
Wheat Is Universally Acknowledged To Be The Most Valuable Of All Cereal Grasses, The Most Popular Of All Breadstuffs, And Next To Maize The Most Productive. Its Cultivation Dates From The Earliest Ages, And As In Ancient Egypt And Palestine It Ranked As A Chief Crop, So Now It May ...
Wine
Wine Is Not Always Found In The Grocer's Stock, But Is A Profitable Branch Of The Trade Where It Is Kept In Its Proper Place. If Sold Only In Bottles Or By The Quantity With No Sampling Or Retailing It Leads To A Good Class Of Customers Who Use, But ...
Or Petroleum
Petroleum, Or Coal Oil, Is Found In Many Parts Of The World, And Is Believed To Be A Result From The Decomposition Of Huge Masses Of Antediluvian Fish, In The Same Way That Coal Was Produced By The Decomposition Of Trees And Plants, Or To Be The Actual Distillation From ...