The exhibition cookery book

Every one cannot of course become a fruit-grower and Jam manufacturer ; but there is abundant evidence to shew that very much more might be done with the land, besides wheat growing and pasture, if only business enterprise and business energy be added to love of the land and desire to develop it to the full. 239. ON BLACKING STOVES AND WROUGHT IRON CASTINGS. Stoves can be best got into condition by using W. G. Nixey’s Egg Shell Enamel Berlin Black, which dries perfectly in a few minutes, and produces a rich surface of uniform dead black unaffected by heat or damp, and upon this Nixey’s Celebrated Refined Black Lead, as used in the Royal Households, quickly develops a perfect polish, rich in quality, and unequalled by any other brand, while it I 20 THE EXHIBITION COOKERY BOOK. preserves the stove from rust and lasts a long while. — For wrought iron castings, lamp and kettle floor stands, tops of fire irons and fenders, Nixey’s Egg Shell Enamel Berlin Black is always used — sold in bottles by all respectable tradesmen. When fires are discontinued and black leading is not required to be done so frequently most of the stoves will have to be coated with Nixey’s Egg Shell Enamel Berlin Black, a rich dead enamel that wears well all through the summer; it is a black coating, and can be put on best with a small tool brush, it dries perfectly in a few minutes. 240. POLISHING STOVES. During the past few years many competitors have arrived on the British shores from America and elsewhere with light grey soft plumbago polishes and enamel pastes, but we hesitate not to say that Nixey’s Refined Black Lead, that has stood the test of fifty years’ world wide reputation, and secured the Royal Appointments to the Queen and Prince of Wales and the highest awards at all Exhibitions including that in Chicago, is still the richest, blackest, easiest and most satisfactory. Should any reader desire the light polishes, then Nixey’s “ Silver Moonlight ” stove polish in packets, and Nixey’s “ Nixelene ” stove polishing paste in tins are superior to any other in their class, and can be obtained at any grocers. Full directions on packages. 241. KNIFE CLEANING. In these days of multiplying labour-saving articles it is THE EXHIBITION COOKERY BOOK. 121 of importance to see that the knives, forks and all cutlery are polished rapidly without friction, and we know of no other article to secure this like W. G Nixey’s “ Cervus ” Knife Polish, at once the softest, easiest, magic polish, preserving the cutlery from wear, and is used in any knife machine and on the boards. 242. BLUEING IN THE LAUNDRY. Thanks to W. G. Nixey, we have now a perfect washing blue, known universally as Nixey’s “ Cervus ” Bag Blue, produced in neat flannelette or linen bags ready for use. The bag is simply squeezed in the water until the desired tint is obtained, then taken out and hung up ; the water then stirred round is ready for all fabrics to be passed through, and the finest snow-like whiteness is obtained without any injurious effects, even to the most delicate articles. It is just necessary to caution our readers that there is but one Nixey’s Bag Blue and it is needful to see the name NIXEY. 243. CYCLES.