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 (Work for minutes in a utes)

Work for 30 minutes in a utes in a bath with one ounce chrome and 1 bath made up with 1 ounce chrome and 1 ounce alum; wash through cold water, then ounce alum; wash in cold water; then work work for 30 minutes in another bath with three pounds fustic and 8 ounces logwood; wash pounds peachwood or limawood; lift, and add and dry. Different proportions of the mate- 1 ounce alum; work for 20 minutes; wash rials used will produce different shades. and dry.

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