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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Whitewash for Outside Work

Take of good quicklime 1/2 a bushel, slack in the usual manner and add 1 pound common salt, 1/2 pound sulphate of zinc (white vitriol), failed to stick. When you wish to re-paper the wall, with the brush wet the paper with clear water, and it will come off readily. (Sce No. 2811.)

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