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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Frangipani Soap

Curd soap, colored brown with caramel, 7 pounds; per- fitted with a still-head, makes a good confumed with a mixture of attars of neroli and taining vessel. The alcohol and soap are vitivert, each 4 ounces; attar of rose, 2 taken in about equal proportions; and, as the drachms; attar of santal, 14 ounces; and solution proceeds, any spirit which may distill civet, 2 drachms. The latter is to be pre- over must be allowed to condense in a worm, viously triturated with the attars. and collected in a receiver. The heat should

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