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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I. Chlorate of spatula, about 4 inch square; let them dry baryta, 2 parts; nitrate of baryta, 3 parts; rather gradually on a warm mantel-piece, not sulphur, 1 part. too near a fire. When dry, fix one of the lit- II. Chlorate of potassa, 20 parts; nitrate tle squares in a small cleft made at the end of of baryta, 21 parts; sulphur, 11 parts.

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