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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Sap Green

The expressed juice of buckthorn berries (and sometimes of other species of rhamnus, and also of privet berries) orated to dryness. A little gum-arabic is

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