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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Chinese Fire for Sky Rockets

If inch or under, nitre, 16 parts; charcoal, 4 parts; sulphur, 8 parts; cast-iron borings, 4 parts. Mix. Or: If over 1 inch and under 2 inches bore, nitre 16 parts; charcoal, 4 parts; sulphur, 4 parts; iron borings, 5 parts. Mix.

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