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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Lilac Fire for Stars

Take 3 parts black oxide of copper, 22 parts dried chalk, 25 parts sulphur, 50 chlorate of potassa.

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