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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To Clean Oil-Cloth

An oil-cloth should never be scrubbed with a brush, but, after being first swept, should be cleaned by washing with a soft flannel and lukewarm or up a large potato very fine and put it in the cold water. On no account use soap, or wa- bottle with some warm water, and shake it ter that is hot, as either would have a bad efrapidly until it is clean. Some use shot and fect on the paint. When the oil-cloth is dry, soda, but potato is even more effectual. rub it well with a small portion of a mixture

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