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 Test Lye

In testing the 25 pounds salt water of 12º Baumé, will turn strength of lyes with a hydrometer, an exact out 244 pounds washing soap. result could be obtained if the caustic alkali

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