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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Lacquer for Tin Plate

Best alcohol, 8 ounces; turmeric, 4 drachms; hay saffron, 2 scruples; dragon's blood, 4 scru- 3064. Durable and Lustrous Black ples; red saunders, 1 scruple; shellac, 1 Coating for Metals. The bottom of a ounce; gum sandarach, 2 drachms; gum cylindrical iron pot, which should be about mastich, 2 drachms; Canada balsam, 2 18 inches in height, is covered half an inch drachms; when dissolved, add spirits of tur- with powdered bituminous coal; a grate is pentine, 80 drops. then put in and the pot filled with the articles

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