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 Distinguish Good Eggs

possible has been expelled, put one drop of To ascertain whether an egg is good or bad, hot water on the air hole; the cessation or hold it up to the light. A good egg is translucent, but a bad ore is perfectly opaque; the difference is as easily perceived as that between a blue egg and a white one. absence of air bubbles passing through it will denote that the cans are ready for final sealing.

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