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 Extinguish Fires

Dr. Clanny's solution consists of 5 ounces sal-ammoniac to 1 gallon water. The compound used in Phillip's Fire Annihilator is said to consist of dried prussiate of potash, sugar, and chlorate of potash.

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