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HOUSEHOLD WANTS



 

Have you visited the 'Daily Wants' page, which has a similar list to this one?  There are even more items on this chart than on the 'Daily Wants' one. It's a bit rusty and the photo is not very good, but see how many items you can identify.

Don't worry if you can't understand them all. I'm not sure about some of them myself!

Actually I wonder if this chart is American. I notice it mentions 'hominy' which may be an abbreviation here for 'hominy grits', an American food similar to porridge.

This is the list of the items I have identified - 

Almonds, apples, ammonia, apricots, bacon, baking powder, baked beans, barley, bathbrick, beer, stout, beef, beeswax, biscuits, birdseed, blacking, blacklead, blue, borax, bovril, brandy, brushes, butter, candles, capers, carbolic soda, cake, cheese, chocolate, chutney, chicory, coal, cocoa, coconut, coffee, cornflour, cream of tartar, currants, curry powder, custard, disinfectant, dog biscuits, eggs, emery paper, enamaline, essences, figs, firelights, flout, gelatine, ginger, gravy colour, haddock, ham, haricots, hearth stone, herbs, honey, hominy, infant food, issinglass, jam, jelly, kippers, lamb, lard, lemons, lemon curd, lentils, lobster, macaroni, margarine, marmalade, matches, mentholated spirits, milk, mineral waters, mustard, night lights, nuts, nutmegs, oatmeal, olive oil, onions, oranges, papers, peas, peaches, peel, pepper, pickles, pineapple, pipeclay, plates, polish for boots, polish for brass, polish for floors, potatoes, potted meats, prunes, raisins, rice sago, salmon, salt, salad cream, sardines, sauces, sausages, semolina, soap, soda, soups, spices, starch, suet, sugar, syrup, tapers, tapioca, tea, tomatoes, tongue, toothpaste, treacle, turpentine, vegetables, vermicelli, vinegar, wash leather, washing powder, whitening, whisky, wheatmeal, wine liqueurs, notes. 

Some of these items are no longer in use. 'Issinglass' for instance was used to preserve eggs, before the days of refrigeration. And 'blacklead' was used to polish fireplaces etc. 

 


 

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