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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Melt 93 grains paste and 1 grain calcined peroxide of iron. Or: 1008 grains paste, 43 grains glass of antimony, and 1 grain purple of cassius. (See

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