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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White or Common Foil

This the alloy being shaken out. Or: Coat the is made by coating a plate of copper with a bottom of the stone with a film of real silver, layer of silver, and then rolling it into sheets by precipitating it from a solution of the nitrate in the flatting mill. The foil is then highly polished or varnished.

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