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.

Electro-Gilding

4 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

To Recover Silver from Old present

This method requires only the fol- Plated Goods. Oil of vitriol, together with lowing precautions: The metallic surface 5 per cent. of…

Process of Electro-Gilding

The process of gilding is generally performed upon silver articles. The method of proceeduntil it is convenient to immerse them in the very…

To Prepare Cyanide of Gold

Dissolve 1 ounce of fine gold in 28 pennyweights nitric acid and 2 ounces muriatic acid, and add 1 quart hot water. Precipitate with the…

To Prepare a Solution of Gold

Dissolve 4 troy ounces cyanide of potassium and 1 ounce cyanide of gold in 1 gallon rain or distilled water. This solution is to be used at…

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