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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Red Brown (Dye a deep annotto orange see)

Dye a deep annotto orange (see No. 159); then work for 15 minutes in plumb liquor (see No. 111); wash well and dry. Particular tints can be made by alding fustic, peachwood or logwood to the

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Red Brown (Dye a deep annotto orange see)

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