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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Indian Red, or Crocus

This is made from jeweler's rouge, by subjecting the scarlet calcined sesquioxide of iron to a further calcination at a very intense heat. It is

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