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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German Silver for Castings

Nickel and zinc, each 20 parts; copper, 60 parts; lead, 3 parts. For castings. Or, to either of the above add 2 to 3 per cent. of white sheet iron.

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