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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Congress Water

Take com- lime, 12 grains; crystallized carbonate of soda, mon salt, 78 ounces; hydrate of soda, 23 31 grains; sulphate of soda in crystals, 77 salt, 74 ounces; hydrate of soda, 23 31 grains; sulphate of soda in crystals, 71 grains; bicarbonate of soda, 20 grains; and grains; sulphate of lime, 14 grains; sulphate calcined magnesia, 1 ounce . Add the above of magnesia, 20 grains; sulphate of iron, 2 ingredients to 10 gallons of water, and charge grains; chloride of sodium, 2 grains; chloride with gas. of magnesium, 4 grains; chloride of mangan-

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