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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Yellow, by turmeric

330. Scarlet, by cochineal, cream of tartar, and muriate of tin. (See No. 113.)

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