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.

A Griculture

1 receipt in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Silk Worms (Strung tron threads and hung)

strung tron threads, and hung against a wall, or suspended from a beam. Just so much of the middle of the cocoon is to be pierced with a…

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