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.
table-spoonful of white sugar, 1 table-spoonful water, 1 wine-glass of brandy. Fill full of shaved ice, use two sprigs of mint, the same as in t receipt for mint julep. Lay two small pieces of orange on top, and ornament with berries in season.