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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Black (Work for hour in a bath)

Work for 1 hour in a bath with 8 ounces bichromate of potassa, 6 ounces alum, and 4 ounces fustic; lift, and shades are made by varying the quantities of expose to the air for a short time; wash well, the dye-woods. (See last receipt.)

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