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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Brazil-wood Test Paper

Made by preparing the paper with a decoction of Brazil-wood. Alkalies turn it purple or violet; strong acids, red.

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