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 Straw Matting

Wash it with weak salt and water and dry it well, or boil a small bag of bran in 2 gallons of waof water, and wash the matting with the water, the water, drying it well.

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