Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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What the Victorian trades actually put in things, written down for the people who made them.

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The Receipts

Manipulations

16 receipts

Preparations

8 receipts

Alcoholmetry

8 receipts

The Art Of Dyeing

158 receipts

To Remove Stains And Spots

98 receipts

To Remove Stains And Spots.,

1 receipt

Toilet Soaps

21 receipts

Soft Soaps

35 receipts

Imitation Liquors

35 receipts

Home-Made Wines

15 receipts

Cordials Or Liqueurs

31 receipts

Cider

18 receipts

Brewing

68 receipts

Perfumery

97 receipts

Cosmetics

83 receipts

Pomatums Or Pomades

63 receipts

Syrups

36 receipts

Alcohol

21 receipts

Essential Oils

3 receipts

Fixed Oils And Fats

40 receipts

Preservatives

65 receipts

Vinegar

11 receipts

Sauces, Catsups, And Pickles

31 receipts

The Flower And Kitchen Garden,

4 receipts

The Flower And Kitchen Garden

35 receipts

Prepared Paper

33 receipts

Ivory, Alabaster, Etc

37 receipts

Pyrotechny

75 receipts

Cements And Uniting Bodies

189 receipts

Inks

49 receipts

Aniline Colors

35 receipts

Liquid Colors

41 receipts

Pigments

36 receipts

House Painting

83 receipts

Spirit Varnishes

114 receipts

Photography

38 receipts

Silver:

1 receipt

Silver

15 receipts

Steel

44 receipts

Alloys

64 receipts

Soldering And Welding

51 receipts

Gilding, Silvering, Etc

44 receipts

Electrotyping

9 receipts

Electroplating

6 receipts

Electro-Gilding

4 receipts

Electroplating With Various Metals

8 receipts

Bronzing

40 receipts

Acids

136 receipts

Miscellaneous Chemicals

198 receipts

Tests Or Reagents

24 receipts

Factitious Mineral Waters

37 receipts

Medicinal Tinctures

45 receipts

Fluid Extracts

40 receipts

Medicated Syrups

36 receipts

Elixirs

31 receipts

Solutions

42 receipts

Liniments

196 receipts

Patent And Proprietary Medicines

175 receipts

Medical Receipts

223 receipts

Tables Of Weights, Measures, Etc

104 receipts

Miscellaneous Receipts

115 receipts

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Highlights

Labor-saving Soap

Take 2 pounds sal soda, 2 pounds yellow bar soap, and 10 quarts water. Cut the soap in slices , and boil together 2 hours…

Fusible Alloys

Bismuth, 8 rapidly oxidize when placed in water. 3459. Table of Alloys of Tin and Lead and their Melting Heats. 22…

Solder for Joining Steel

This is cast-steel, &c., as it fuses at a lower tempera-pends upon the nature of the object. In ture; and, being whiter in…

Artificial Grindstones

Washed silicious sand, 3 parts; shellac, 1 part; melt, and form it into the proper shape while warm. The fineness of the sand…

Preserved Flowers and Herbs

Flowers, herbs, and other like vegetable substances, are now generally preserved, for distillation, by means of common salt. The…

Filters for Syrups

Syrups are should be checked after the lapse of one or usually filtered, on the large scale…

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