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.

The Receipts

Preface

5 receipts

Brewing

10 receipts

Agriculture

27 receipts

Manures

1 receipt

Agriculture,

2 receipts

A Griculture

1 receipt

Horticulture

19 receipts

Rural And Domestic Economy

6 receipts

Bees And Their Management

4 receipts

Diseases Of Horses

1 receipt

Farriery

4 receipts

Medicine

141 receipts

Useful Domestic Medicines

5 receipts

Plain Cookery

12 receipts

Cookery

21 receipts

Puddings,

2 receipts

Confectionery

8 receipts

The Art Of Carving

6 receipts

Qualities Of Food

5 receipts

Wines

11 receipts

Distillation

30 receipts

Perfumery

3 receipts

Bleaching And Scouring

4 receipts

Dyeing

18 receipts

Paints And Colors

5 receipts

Artists' Oil Colors

2 receipts

Varnishes

9 receipts

Cements

16 receipts

Metallurgy

38 receipts

Tanning

1 receipt

Enamelling

8 receipts

Pottery

5 receipts

Glass

8 receipts

Photography

19 receipts

Engraving

12 receipts

Weights And Measures

22 receipts

Chemical Receipts

78 receipts

Implements Of Agriculture

12 receipts

Index

93 receipts

The Useful Arts

7 receipts

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Highlights

Note (Brioches may be varied)

Brioches may be varied in their form when intended to be served as fancy bread for breakfast, etc.; in which case they should be…

House Painting (To Black the Edges of Paper)

To Black the Edges of Paper. Mix black lead with ink, and when the paper is cut, color it thinly over with black ink, with a…

Treatment (Blisters tincture of aconite)

Blisters, tincture of aconite, mercurial ointment, opium, iron, and Fowler's Solution of Arsenic, with many other remedies of the…

To Engrave on Wood

The block is commonly made of pear-tree or box, and differs in thickness according to its size. The surface for the engraving is…

Onions and Asparagus

thread, keeping every piece apart, and every | soils, in August, January, or early in February; morning, if the weather is fine…

Browns

Spanish brown, umber, spruce ochre, there are more coats of the above composition put Dutch pink, orpiment.

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