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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 Try out Lard

This should be done in the open air. Set a large kettle over a fire, in some sheltered place, on a still

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