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Page 1752 of 1827

  • 2 - Brewing Beer continued

  • William Cobbett
  • Book:
    Cottage Economy
    Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    20 July 2009, pp 25-48
    First published in:
    1822

  • Summary

    38. AS to using barley in the making of beer, I have given it a full and fair trial twice over; and, I would recommend it to neither rich nor poor. The barley produces strength, though nothing like the malt; but, the beer is flat, even though you use half malt and half barley; and, flat beer lies heavy on the stomach, and, of course, besides the bad taste, is unwholesome. To pay 4s, 6d. tax upon every bushel of our own barley turned into malt, when the barley itself is not worth 3s. a bushel, is a horrid thing; but, as long as the owners of the land shall be so dastardly as to suffer themselves to be thus deprived of the use of their estates to favour the slave-drivers and plunderers of the East Indies, we must submit to the thing, incomprehensible to foreigners, and even to ourselves, as the submission may be.

    39. With regard to Hops the quality is very various. At times when some sell for 5s. a pound, others sell for sixpence. Provided the purchaser understands he article, the quality is, of course, in proportion to the price. There are two things to be considered in hops: the power of preserving beer, and that of giving it pleasant flavour. Hops may be strong, and yet not good. They should be bright, have no leaves or pits of branches amongst them.

  • 6 - Keeping Pigs.—Salting Mutton and Beef

  • William Cobbett
  • Book:
    Cottage Economy
    Published online:
    29 August 2010
    Print publication:
    20 July 2009, pp 121-142
    First published in:
    1822

  • Summary

    143. AS in the case of cows so in that of pigs, much must depend upon the situation of the cottage; because all pigs will graze; and, therefore, on the skirts of forests or commons, a couple or three pigs may be kept, if the family be considerable; and especially if the cottager brew his own beer, which will give him grains to assist the wash. Even in lanes, or on the sides of great roads, a pig will find a good part of his food from May to November; and, if he be yoked, the occupiers of the neighbourhood must be churlish and brutish indeed, if they give the owner any annoyance.

    144. Let me break off here for a moment to point out to my readers the truly excellent conduct of Lord Winchelsea and Lord Stanhope, who, as I read, have taken great pains to make the labourers on their estates comfortable by alloting to each a piece of ground sufficient for the keeping of a cow. I once proposed to the copy-holders and other farmers in my neighbourhood, that we should petition the Bishop of Winchester, who was Lord of the Manors thereabouts, to grant titles to all the numerous persons called trespassers on the wastes; and also to give titles to others of the poor parishioners, who were willing to make on the skirts of the wastes, enclosures not exceeding an acre each. This, I am convinced would have done a great deal towards relieving the parishes then greatly burdened by men out of work.

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