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.

Tanning

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

Tanning (Softens the bulbous roots)

or softens the bulbous roots of the hairs, and thus facilitates their removal by mere mechanical scraping with a blunt-edged knife. The art…

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