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.

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Index (Lamps to Prevent being)

Lamps, to Prevent being Pernicious to Asthmatic persons, 185 to Prevent Smoking, 458 Lampblack, 328 Land, Arable, Management of, 9 Lands, Clay, to Underdrain, 49, 50 Landscape, Chemical, 362 Lard, 301 Laudanum, Poisoning by, 152 Laughing-gas, 433 Lavender, Oil of (Foreign), to obtain, 291 Spirit, 166, 295

Water, to Prepare, 176, 296 for Immediate Use, 296 Lawns, to Wash and Starch, 311 Lax, 130 Laxative Solutions, 158, 175 Layering, 62 Lead Ores, to Assay, 364 Tests for, 433

Chinese Sheet, to Prepare, 381 Chromate of, 334 Paper, 299 Pencil Drawings, etc., to Preserve, 350 Colic, 131 Poisoning by, 152 Water, 156 Tree, to Prepare the, 380 Leather, to Gild, 377 Dressing for, 459 to Clean, 314 to Render Water-proof, 348, 349 Leather Chairs, to Restore the Blackness of, 350

Sheep, to Prepare, 387

Morocco, to Manufacture, 388 to Convert Old Parchment into, 390 to Preserve from Mould, 390

Morocco and Sheep, to Dye, 388, 390

Russia, to Manufacture, 388 to Color, 390 Leaven, Bread, 97 Ledoyen's Disinfecting Solution, 164, 436 Leeches, Application of, 156 Lemonade, Portable, 300 Lemon Cordial, to make, 286

Juice, Preservation of, 457

Peel, to Candy, 234

Water, to Prepare, 296 Leprosy, Lotion for, 156 Leprous Affections, 156 Letters, to Disinfect, of the Plague, 164 Leucorrhœa, 166 Liard, for Lubricating, 347 Lice, to Destroy, 449 Liebig's Soup and Broth, 461 Life, Expectation of, 459 Life-boat, 181; Light, Artificial, 466 Lightning, to Guard Against, 462 Lime as a Manure, 22 to Burn, Without Kilns, 24

Juice, to Preserve, 457 Line Engraving, 419 Linear Measurement, 428 Linen, to Render Water-proof, 347

Cloth for Screens, etc., to Thicken, 347 to Remove Iron-moulds from, 313

Mildew on, to Take Out, 314 Fire-proof, 437 and Cotton, to Dye, 320 Liniment, Compound Soap, 173, of Ammonia, 173 Linseed Poultice, 154 Lip-salve, 174 LIQUEURS, to make, 284 Liquid Manure, 25

Paste, with Drying-oil, to make, 347 Liquorice, Extract of, to make, 234

Juice, to make, 235 Lozenges, 234

Refined, to Prepare, 235 Liquors, Factitious, 287 Bead for, 288 Lisbon Diet-drink, 258

← Lacquers, 345Lithography, 423 →