You can gain such interesting insights from primary documents, actual
old books and articles and other writing; this is a tiny series from the
1922 collection Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll (the sister-in-law of the famous Gertrude the gardener)....I added the divisions to make the ideas clearer for us 21st century-ites, though the milk jug still isn't quite clear to me though sounds brilliant:
Insist on a hot-water kettle of real efficiency,
on a tea caddy...
and a small saucepan...for boiling eggs,
with an hour-glass standing sentry near by...
[paraphernalia for] roasting and grinding [coffee]...
a fireproof jug of ample proportions with wide ventilated top should keep the milk hot without boiling over...
a handy toasting-fork...