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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Rose Bandoline

Steep 6 ounces the nitrate to 1 fluid ounce of distilled water; gum tragacanth for 30 hours in 1 gallon rose- weaker ones, for brown, with only 1 drachm water, stirring frequently; strain through a cloth, and let it stand for a few days; then strain again and work into it 4 drachms oil of roses. (See No. 1154.)

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