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.

Preface

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

To the New and Revised Edition Of October, 1865

In preparing a new edition of this popular work, the Editors have endeavored to incorporate all the improvements in the various branches…

Opinions of the Press

FROM THE PHILA. NORTH AMERICAN, DEC. 22, 1865. The vast amount of useful knowledge bearing on every-day life which constantly flits through…

To the Latest London Edition

As the object of all study, and the end of all wisdom, is practical utility, so a collection of the most approved Receipts, in all the arts…

To the Early American Edition,

IN fulfilling the duty of preparing for the press a new and enlarged edition of the valuable work of Mackenzie, the Editor has steadily…

Food

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