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 Dye Dove or Slate Color

Boil a teacup of black tea in an iron pot, add- ber resin; 4 ounces gum thus; 4 ounces guin a teacup of black tea in an iron pot, add- ber resin; 4 ounces gum thus; 4 ounces gum ing a tea-spoonful of copperas. The depth of mastic; 6 ounces borax; + pint solution of color will depend on the quantity of water copal. used. Dye the articles in this and then hang them up to drain, finally rinsing out in soap- lon warm water. This alkaline liquor is put The borax is first dissolved in about 1 galsuds.

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