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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Preparation of Brewers' Yeast

To do this, 72 pounds unkilned malt and a handful of hops are gradually stirred in a clean tub containing 7 gallons water of 170° Fahr.; and to this 5 gallons water of 200° are added. The tub is then covered tightly and with a blade or two of mace, and fill up with left quiet for 1 hour. Supposing this to be white vinegar, pouring some melted mutton done at 6 P. M., the whole is left undisturbed fat on the top, if intended to be kept long. till 7 o'clock next morning, when it must be

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