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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The fat stock is chiefly the heat being continued all the time at a moderate degree, the remaining 10 pounds of oil-generally olive oil-with the addition of a little tallow to give it the granular appearance called fig.

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