About This Book
The volume assembles practical recipes, trade secrets, and household and industrial formulas, offering instructions for cleaning, preserving foodstuffs, ink and flavoring preparations, cements and metal and glass treatments, rubber repairs, and furniture and textile care, plus stage illusions and directions for theatrical effects. A medical section presents revised prescriptions and remedies compiled from contemporary authorities and arranged alphabetically, and supporting material includes tables of measures, chemical names, and brief how-to guides. Entries emphasize concise, tested procedures with ingredient lists and stepwise directions for home and craft use.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
by William Walker Atkinson
The City That Was
by Stephen Smith
Case of Filaria loa
by Douglas Argyll Robertson
Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. / A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling...
by Eliza Leslie
Boys' Make-at-Home Things
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Home Manufacture and Use of Unfermented Grape Juice
by George C. Husmann