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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Enamel Powder

Take equal Starch and orris in fine powder, each 8 parts finely scraped talc or French chalk, and ounces; charcoal and ivory black, in fine pearl-white; sufficient rouge or carmine to powder, each 1 ounce. Mix and sift.

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