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 Ink (According to the most accurate)

According to the 'most accurate experiments on the preparation of black ink, it appears that the quantity of sulphate of iron should not exceed 1/8 part of that of the galls, by which an excess of coloring matter, which is necessary for the durathis kind of ink upwards of 60 years ago, which still possesses a good color.

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