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.

Essential Oils

3 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Cognac Oil

Oil of cognac is prepared by dissolving the fusel oil of brandy marc in strong rectified spirit, and then adding a sufficient quantity of…

Oil of Apple

Mix cautiously 1 part fusel oil, 3 parts sulphuric acid, and 2 parts water. Dissolve 24 parts bichromate of potash in 44 parts water…

Oil of Jargonelle Pear

This is made from the heavy fusel oil which comes over last in distillation. To purify the fusel oil, wash it with soda and water, and…

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