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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Finishing Walnut

For filling chafes, and proceed over that part of the work walnut wood, there are many compounds in you mean to polish, in order to take out all use, several of them unde der patents; that the streaks or partial lumps made by the which discolors the wood the least, and at the brush; then give it another coat, and let it same time produces a fine finish, is the most stand a day or two to harden. The best simple of them all, being nothing but fine rye flour mixed with boiled oil, Japan and turpentine, ground fine in a paint mill, and slightly colored with burnt umber.

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