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.

Diseases of Horses

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

Another (Pint of port wine with spice)

A pint of port wine, with spice or ginger. Another. Half a pint of gin diluted with 4 ounces of water and a little ginger.

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