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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Painter's Size

Stir a small Freestone.. Red, Black, Yellow Ochre, V. hite French Gray.... White, Prussian Blue, Lake .White Lead, Black White, Stone Ochre, Red Green Bronze.. Chrome Green, Black, Yellow Do Pea... quantity of litharge and red lead into some boiled oil; let it stand, shaking frequently Gray... until bleached; then bottle. Raw oil makes Gold a slower drying size. ..White, Chrome Green White, Chrome Yellow Limestone. White, Yellow Ochre, Black, Red

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