The general receipt-book, or, Oracle of knowledge : containing several hundred useful receipts and experiments in every branch of science, including medicine, chemistry, mechanics, dying, painting, colouring, pickling, preserving, &c. &c. : with directions for making British wines / compiled and extracted from valuable private manuscripts, public documents, and expensive works of the most eminent practitioners by H. Gifford.

  • Gifford, H., active 1834.
Date:
[1834?]
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Credit: The general receipt-book, or, Oracle of knowledge : containing several hundred useful receipts and experiments in every branch of science, including medicine, chemistry, mechanics, dying, painting, colouring, pickling, preserving, &c. &c. : with directions for making British wines / compiled and extracted from valuable private manuscripts, public documents, and expensive works of the most eminent practitioners by H. Gifford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    To clean Looking Glasses.—Remove the fly stains, and other soil* by a damp rag, then polish with woollen cloth and powder blue. To take the Hack off the bright, Bars of polished Stoves in a few-minutes.—Rub them well with some of the following mixture on a bit of broad- cloth ; when the dirt is removed, wipe them clean, and- polish with glass, not sand paper:— Boil slowly one pound of soft soap in two quarts of water, to one. Of this jelly take three or four spoonsful, and mix to a consistence with emery. To clean Tin Covers and patent Pewter Pots.— Get the finest whiting, which is only sold in large cakes, the small being mixed with sand; mix a little of it powdered with the least drop of sweet oil, and rub well and w.pe clean, then dust some dry whiting in a muslin bag. over, and rub bright with dry leather. The last is to prevent lust, which you must be careful to guard against by wiping dry, and putting by the fire when they come from the parlour, for if but once hung up^ without, the steam will rust the inside. To prevent Green Hay from firing.--^Stuff a stack as full ofstraw or hay as possible;, tie the mouth with a cord, and make the rick round the sack, drawing it up as the rick advances in height, and quite out when finished. The funnel thus left in the centre preserves it. THE END.