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In the room adjoining the kitchen the milk was cared for, as there were eleven milk-pans, an "earthen" pan and three "earthen" butter-pots. In the cellar was the gentleman's supply of drink, cider for family use, a cask of brandy, a cask of old whiskey, and a malt-mill listed as worn out.
At Bristol he was joined by three partners of the same persuasion, who provided the necessary capital to enable him to set up works at Baptist Mills, near that city, where he carried on the business of malt-mill making, to which he afterwards added brass and iron founding. At that period cast-iron pots were in very general use, forming the principal cooking utensils of the working class.
They contain a soapy juice, fit for washing of linens and stuffs, for milling of caps and stockings, &c., and for fulling of stuffs and cloths. Twenty nuts are sufficient for five quarts of water. They must be first peeled, which can be done by children, then rasped or dried, and ground in a malt-mill, or any other common steel mill.
At the same time, various products in the colony were found adaptable for producing drinks persimmons for beer, sassafras for wine, and both barley and Indian corn were cultivated for brewing purposes. Many of the planters developed their own facilities of one kind or another. Colonel Bridger had a malt-mill, and John Fisher a still.
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