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 Restore Scorched Linen

under it; cover the barrel tightly. If they It is almost needless to premise that if the are not white enough, repeat the process; tissue of linen is so much burnt that no hang in the open air a day, then wash and strength is left, it is useless to apply the fol- rinse in bluing water. Be careful not to lowing composition; for nothing could pre- have the sulphur blaze and scorch the garvent a hole from being formed, although the ments. composition by no means tends to injure the

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