How to Drink Beer, 1725
I have not known Thirst since I have used hot Beer…
18th century
How to Survive Cold Season, 1761
Fever. To prevent catching any infectious fever, do not breathe…
How to Make Snowballs for Dessert, 1798
Snow Balls. Pare and take out the cores of five large baking apples…
How to Stay Cool, 1723
When the Sun is in its full Force, there is nothing more refreshing…
How to Avoid Sunburn, 1756
Take Deer’s Marrow, put it into a sufficient Quantity of Water…
How to Compliment a Lady, 1737
Lady, the Magazine of all rich Treasure is contained in your Perfections…
How to Make Artichoke Ice Cream, 1768
Artichoke ice cream. Take three or four artichokes, of which you will use only the bottoms…
How to Sweet Talk Your Man, 1713
Complemental Expressions towards Men Leading to the Art of Courtship…
How to Make Turnip Wine, 1796
To make Turnip Wine. Take a good many turnips, pare, slice, and put them in a cyder-press…
How to Avoid Stinks, 1706
When you are where Stinks are, open your Mouth…
How to Choose Meat, 1772
Lamb is more Nutritious than any kind of Poultry, Mutton than Lamb, Veal than Mutton…
How to Make a Christmas Pie, 1784
To make a Yorkshire Christmas-Pie. First make a good standing crust, let the wall and bottom be very thick…
How to Make a Hedgehog, 1725
To make a Hedge-Hog. Take a Quart of New Cream and boil it, then beat an Egg and put into it…
How to Make Pumpkin Ale, 1771
Let the Pompion be beaten in a Trough and pressed as Apples…
How to Catch a Rat, 1768
Remember likewise, that they are a very subtle vermin, for if they in the least suspect what you are about, you cannot catch them…
How to Make Ketchup, 1774
To make catchup to keep twenty years. Take a gallon of strong stale beer…
How to Use Tomatoes, 1794
Love-Apples… The fruit of the wild sort is no bigger than a cherry…
How to Cure Cramps, 1739
For the Cramp. Take of rosemary-leaves, and chop them very small, and sew them in fine linen…
How to Eat Seasonally, 1746
Experience teacheth, that Hens are best in January; Eggs in February…
How to Say ‘Drunk,’ 1770
The simple idea of having drunk too much liquor, is expressed in near FOURSCORE different ways…
How to Interview People Abroad, 1789
A traveller’s memory will be greatly relieved, by putting down the questions he wishes to have answered…
How to Intoxicate Waterfowl, 1777
Way to intoxicate Water-Fowl. First clean, and then steep in clear Water…
How to Garden with Lobsters, 1777
Procure the hollow claws of Lobsters, Crabs, &c. and hanging them in different parts of the garden…
How to Trim Your Toenails Underwater, 1789
To cut the Nails of the Toes in the Water… You must hold your knife in your right hand…
How to Kill Bedbugs, 1777
Spread Gun-powder, beaten small, about the crevices of your bedstead…
How to Make Pink Pancakes, 1786
To make a pink-coloured Pancake. Boil a large beet root tender…
How to Make Waffles, 1714
The Right Dutch-Wafer. Take four Eggs, and beat them very well…