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Dick's encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes : containing over 6400 receipts ... applicable to almost every possible industrial and domestic requirement ; or, How they did it in the 1870's / by William B. Dick ; this ed. prepared by Leicester and Harriet Handsfield.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection T49 .D54 1975
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 607 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Funk & Wagnalls, [1975]
- Contents:
- Chemical manipulations
- Preparations
- Specific gravity
- Alcoholmetry
- Acetimetry
- Alkalimetry
- The thermometer
- The art of dyeing
- Family dyeing receipts
- To remove stains, spots, etc.
- The art of soap-making
- Toilet soaps
- Soap by the cold process
- Soft soaps
- Home-made tallow candles
- Tanning
- Imitation liquors
- Champagne
- Home-made wines
- Cordials or liqueurs
- Bitters
- Cider
- Brewing
- Perfumery
- Cologne water and perfumed spirits
- To prepare flavoring extracts
- Artificial fruit essences
- Extraits or perfumed extracts
- Aromatic or perfumed waters, etc.
- Aromatic vinegar
- Smelling salts
- Perfumed powders and rouges
- Cosmetics
- Washes for failing hair
- Hair dyes
- Depilatories
- Scented or perfumed oils
- Pomatums or pomades
- Tooth powders and dentifrices
- Tooth pastes and electuaries
- Tooth and mouth washes
- Fumigating pastils, and incense
- Syrups
- Syrups for soda water
- Alcohol
- Essential or volatile oils
- Fixed oils and fats
- Petroleum and kerosene
- Lubricators for machinery
- Waterproofing
- Honey
- Bees'-wax
- Cheese
- Preservatives and preserving
- Solutions fo anatomical preparations
- To preserve wood
- Freezing mixtures
- Disinfectants
- Bleaching
- Vinegar
- Sauces, catsups and pickles
- Yeast
- Receipts for the flower and kitchen garden
- The extermination of vermin
- Prepared paper
- Ivory, alabaster, etc.
- Pyrotechny
- Explosives
- Cements and uniting bodies
- Lutes
- Flour paste
- Glue
- Sealing wax
- Boiler incrustations
- Glass
- Enamels
- Glazes
- Artificial gemes
- Foils
- Inks and writing fluids
- Aniline colors
- Liquid colors for various purposes
- Pigments
- Drying oils and dryers
- House painting
- Kalsomine and whitewash
- Paper hanging
- Soluble glass
- To dye wood
- To stain wood
- Varnish
- Oil varnishes
- Spirit varnishes
- Varnishing
- Polishing
- French polishing
- To enamel wood-work
- Japanning
- India jappaning
- Lacquers
- Preservation of leather
- Boot and shoe blacking
- Marbles and sprinkles for books
- Photography
- Metals
- Alloys
- Fluxes
- Soldering and welding
- Amalgams
- Gilding, silvering, etc.
- Electrotyping
- Electroplating
- Electrogilding
- Electroplating with various metals
- Bronzing
- Acids
- Alkalies
- Alkaloids
- Gases
- Miscellaneous chemicals
- Tests or peagents
- Test papers
- Factitious mineral waters
- Medicinal tinctures
- Fluid extracts
- Medicinal essences
- Medicated syrups
- Oxymel
- Elixirs
- Medicated waters
- Medicinal solutions
- Lotions
- Liniments
- Pills
- Ointments, salves and cerates
- Poultices
- Plasters
- Gargles
- Caustics
- Rubefacients
- Balsams
- Tonics
- Anodynes
- Diaphoretics
- Diuretics
- Electuaries
- Fomentations
- Alteratives
- Emetics
- Patent and proprietary medicines
- Medica receipts
- Tables of weights and measures, etc.
- Notes:
- First ed. published (1872) as: Encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 030810157X 0308101588
- OCLC:
- 1217356
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