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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Nearly White Table Glass

Take 20 pounds potashes, 11 pounds dry Glauber salts, 16 pounds soaper salt, 55 pounds sand, and 140 pounds cullet or broken glass of the same kind. Or: 100 parts sand , 235 kelp, 60 wood ashes, 14 manganese, 100 broken glass. lass. This is a compound of silica (silicic acid) with the oxide of an alkaline metal, obtained by fusion. In its usual form it is brittle, transparent, non-crystalline, insolu-

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