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 Lights

Nitrate of strontia, 25 parts; chlorate of potassa, 15 parts; sulphur, 13 parts; black sulphuret of antimony, 4 parts; mastich, 1 part.

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