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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33 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

To Disperse Black Ants

A or some of the bruised leaves, rubbed on the few leaves of green wormwood, scattered among the haunts of these troublesome in- • sects…

To Exterminate Red Ants

Grease a plate with lard, and set it where these insects abound. They prefer lard to anything else, and will forsake sugar for it. Place a…

To Kill Flies

Beat up the yolk of an egg with a table-spoonful each of molasses and black pepper finely ground; set it seed for the destruction of the…

Fly Poison

Boil ounce small chips of quassia in 1 pint water; add 4 ounces molasses. Flies drink this with avidity, and are soon destroyed by it.

To Banish Fleas

The oil of pennyroyal will certainly drive them off; but a cheaper method, where the herb flourishes, is to dip dogs and cats into a…

To Exterminate Fleas

Sprinkle chamomile flowers in the beds, and the fleas will leave.

To Clean Canary Birds

These pretty things are often covered with lice, and may be effectually relieved of them by placing a clean white cloth over their cage at…

Lice on Poultry

If infested with lice, damp the skin under the feathers with water, then sprinkle a little sulphur on the skin. If the bird be covered with…

To Keep Away Mosquitoes

it would be useless in its original state. The Dip a piece of sponge or flannel in camphor- following methods of preparing paper will be…

To Make Transfer Paper

To paper required; keep the result of each sifting prepare transfer paper, take some thin post separate. Then smooth on both sides, with or…

To Make Stone Paper

As, in cleaning wood-work, particularly pine and other soft woods, one process is sometimes found to answer better than another, we may…

To Make Tracing Paper

Lay open a quire of paper, of large size, and apply with a clean sash tool a coat of varnish, made of equal parts of Canada balsam and oil…

To Make Emery Paper or Cloth

This is prepared in precisely the same manner as glass paper (see No. 1933), using emery instead of glass.

Phenyl Paper

This article would be useful for packing meat and other substances liable to decay. (See No. 1614.) It can be prepared by fusing 5 parts…

To Make Waxed Paper

Take cartridge or other paper, place it on a hot iron and rub it with bees' wax, or make a so-

Iridescent Paper

Boil in wa-lution of the wax in turpentine, and apply it ter, 8 parts nut-galls, 5 parts sulphate of iron, with a brush. It is generally…

To Powder Glass

Heat the glass red-hot, throw it into cold water; dry, and pulverize it, coarse or fine as required, in an iron mortar. It is used to…

To Make Glass Paper or Cloth

Powder the glass (that with a greenish hue is the best), and sift it through a very fine large scale by taking a quire of paper and opening…

To Make Oiled Paper

Brush 1946. To Detect the Presence of sheets of paper over with boiled oil, in which Plaster in Paper. Calcine the paper in a of paper over…

Magic Copying Paper

To make black paper, take lamp-black mixed with cold lard. Red paper - Venetian red mixed with lard. Blue paper-Prussian blue mixed with…

To Make Fireproof Paper (Copying paper is prepared)

The copying paper is prepared by being Take a solution of alum and dip the paper wetted with a solution of 200 grains of the into it, then…

To Make Fireproof Paper (Newspapers may be rendered)

Newspapers may be rendered fireproof by dipping into a solution of soluble glass of 25° Baumé; next neutralizing the alkali by diluted…

To Make Paper Waterproof

Melt in 10 pints hot water, 30 ounces glue, The copying ink to be used for the original writing must be made by dissolving (in a…

To Size Paper

The paper must mula for his crayons: Dried white tallow be passed or steeped in a mixture of glue and soap, 6 parts; white wax, 6 parts…

Albuminous Size

Beat up the white of an egg with twice its bulk of cold water, until well incorporated. Used as a varnish for leather binding and kid…

Pounce

Powdered gum sandarac generally passes under this name; it is able adhesive liquid reduced to a fine spray, used to prepare parchment for…

Lithographic Paper (Order allows of being atomized)

In order allows of being atomized, and which, after to prevent the ink tracings or design from ad- becoming dry, causes the particles of…

Lithographic Paper (Take To Fix Pencil or Crayon)

Take 1961. To Fix Pencil or Crayon Drawrather strong, unsized paper, and cover it ings. A convenient method of fixing pencil with a varnish…

Papyrine

Dip white unsized paper for a minute in strong sulphuric acid, and afterwards in water containing a little ammonia. When dried it has the…

To Color Parchment

The only color given to parchment is green. Boil 8 parts cream of tartar and 30 parts crystallized simple method, and sufficient for…

To Make Artificial Parchment

De la Rue's patent. Strong unsized paper is immersed for a few seconds in oil of vitriol, diluted with half its volume of water. It is…

Charcoal Crayons

Saw the finest-grained, softest, and blackest pieces of charcoal, into slips of the size required, put them into a pipkin of melted wax…

To Paste Parchment Paper

the engraving with drawing pins on a smooth Thick, smooth paper does not generally hold board, and cover it thinly with common salt, long…

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