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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French Purple of Cassius

This is similar in preparation to the last receipt, but differs in one ingredient employed, substituting perchloride of iron for the perchloride of tin. This purple keeps in the air unaltered for a long time.

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