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.

Enamelling

8 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Another (Boil elderberries)

Boil elderberries or dwarf-elder, then smear and wash the skins therewith and wring them out; then boil the elderberries as before in a…

Enamelling (Art of enamelling consists)

THE art of enamelling consists in the applica- | ver is impracticable, though the brilliancy of its tion of a smooth coating of vitrified…

Another (Take of opaque or transparent)

Take of opaque or transparent enamel, 10 parts; oxide of chromium, 1 to 2 parts. or transparent each 1 oz. Black Enamel.

By Painting

Mix the colors ( when reduced by tine , temper them with thick oil of turpentine, and proper instrument, or mix them with nut or spike…

By Printing

Take a glue-bat, full size for the color, and take the impression with the bat from subject, charge the copper plate with the oil or If the…

By Dipping

Mix the color to about the consistency of a cream, with any of the ingredients used for printing, in which dip the glass vessel, and keep…

By Floating

Mix the color with any of the cording to the strength of the ground required, float it through a tube, or any other vessel, moving or…

By Grounding

First charge the glass vessel with oil of turpentine, with a camel-hair pencil, and while moist apply the color in a dry powder, which will…

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