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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Washing Soap

A mixture of either 60 pounds tallow-or 30 pounds each of tallow and palm oil-with 40 pounds of cocoanut oil, treated by the cold process with 125 pounds caustic soda lye of 27° Baumé, and

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