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 Varnish

Sandarach, 8 that the gum will not melt as readily as it ounces; mastich, 2 ounces; Canada balsam, 4 ought, which, in general, is owing to the ounces; alcohol, 1 quart. Used on paper, turpentine not being sufficiently rectified; wood, or linen. but, when that is good, it will always succeed.

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