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 Powder Glass

Heat the glass red-hot, throw it into cold water; dry, and pulverize it, coarse or fine as required, in an iron mortar. It is used to filter acids; is glued upon paper or muslin for polishing; also to rub down corns upon the feet, after they have well soaked and dried.

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