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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Spirit Stiffening for Hats

7 rac; 4 ounces gum mastic; 1/2 pound amber pounds orange shellac; 2 pounds gum sandaorange shellac; 2 pounds gum sandaresin; 1 pint solution of copal; 1 gallon spirit of wine, or wood naphtha.

The shellac, sandarac, mastic, and resin are pal is added last. dissolved in the spirit, and the solution of coin the spirit, and the solution of copounds common block shellac; 1 pound am-

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