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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Prussian Measures of Capacity

The Scheffel is equal to 1½ bushels. 1 Wispel 1 Scheffel = 24 Scheffel = 16 Metz The Prussian liquid quart is equivalent to 1.145 litres, or nearly 25 pints American. 6084. Money of the Netherlands is reckoned in Guilders and Cents, the guilder

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