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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Rhubarb Test Paper

From a strong infusion of the powdered root; alkalies turn it brown, but boracic acid and its salts do not affect it.

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