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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Imitation Bear's Grease

Take of washed hog's lard (dry), 11 pounds avoirduwashed hog's lard (dry), 14 pounds avoirdupois; melt it by the heat of a water-bath, add oil of almonds, ounce; disulphate of quinine, of balsam of Peru, 2 drachms; flowers of 1 drachm; triturate them together in a warm benzoin and palm oil (bright), of each 1 wedgwood ware mortar until thoroughly drachm; stir vigorously for a few minutes, to united; then add of prepared beef-marrow, promote solution. Then remove the pan from 14 ounces; and continue the trituration until the bath, and, after repose for a short time, the mass is cold. Scent may be added. pour off the clear portion from the sediment, Recommended for strengthening and restoring and stir the liquid mass until it begins to the hair. cool. 1284. Pomade Contre l'Alopécie,

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