Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

About the Book

1867Published
Colin MackenzieAuthor
681Receipts

Colin Mackenzie’s Ten Thousand Receipts was the household encyclopedia of the nineteenth century: not a cookery book but a whole library of practical arts — agriculture, angling, bees, bleaching, brewing, book-keeping, dyeing, gilding, gardening, fireworks, medicine, and cookery among them.

Its promise was self-sufficiency: whatever needed doing about a house or a small trade, there was a receipt for it.

This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR, reconciled page by page, one receipt to a page.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1867 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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