The Family Receipt Book: Containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in Various Branches of Domestic Economy, Selected from the Works of the Most Approved Writers, Ancient and Modern, and from the Attested Communications of Scientific FriendsRandolph Barnes, 1819 - Всего страниц: 408 |
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Стр. 306 - Put into a glazed earthen vessel four ounces and a half of gum arable, and eight ounces (or half a pint wine measure) of cold spring water ; when the gum is dissolved, stir in seven ounces of gum-mastich, which has been washed, dried, picked, and beaten fine.
Стр. 88 - In a cask, containing eighteen gallons of beer, becoming vapid, put a pint of ground malt, suspended in a bag, and close the bung perfectly; the beer will be improved during the whole time of drawing it for use.
Стр. 176 - To fifteen quarts of water put six pounds of brown sugar; let it boil ten minutes, and take off the scum : pour on it half a peck of primroses ; before it is quite cold put in a little fresh yeast, and let it work in a. warm place all night; put it in a barrel in the kitchen, and when done working, close the barrel, still keeping it in a warm place.
Стр. 175 - ... cover them with cloths. Fermentation takes place in a few days, and continues from eight to twelve days, according to the higher or lower temperature of the situation in which the operation is performed. During the fermentation, stir the matter from time to time, and press it down with the hands, that it may be perfectly soaked. When the fermentation is over, put the matter to drain upon sieves or strainers. At the bottom of the vessels will be found a yellow liquor, which must be thrown away,...
Стр. 348 - Prints. Take of Canada balsam one ounce, spirit of turpentine two ounces; mix them together. Before this composition is applied, the drawing or print should be sized with a solution of isinglass in water; and when dry, apply the varnish with a camel'shair brush.
Стр. 313 - Indian lake, which may be made by infusing the lake some days in spirits of wine, and then pouring off the tincture from the dregs. It may be stained red by red ink. It may also be stained of a scarlet hue by the tincture of dragon's-blood in spirits of wine, but this will not be bright.
Стр. 330 - ... of wine, and draw it, in like manner, over the place which was stained, and particularly round the edges, to remove the border, that would still present a stain. By employing these means, with proper caution, the spot will totally disappear ; the paper will resume its original whiteness ; and if the process has been employed on a part written on with common ink, or printed with printer's ink, it will experience no alteration.
Стр. 213 - Let a sponge, three or four inches in diameter, be moistened with pure water, and in that state be suspended by a string or wire, exactly over the flame of the lamp, at the distance of a few inches ; this substance will absorb all the smoke emitted during the evening, or night, after which it should be rinsed in warm water, by which means it will be again rendered fit for use.
Стр. 248 - To increase the Growth in Trees. — It may be depended upon as a fact, that by occasionally washing the stems of trees, their growth will be greatly increased ; for several recent experiments have proved, that all the ingredients of vegetation united, which are received from the roots, stem, branches, and leaves of a mossy and dirty tree, do not produce half the increase either in wood or fruit, that another gains whose stem is clean. It is clearly obvious, that proper nourishment cannot be received...
Стр. 64 - BRAZING, the soldering or joining two pieces of iron together, by means of thin plates of brass melted between the pieces that are to be joined. If the work be very fine, as when two leaves of a broken saw are to be brazed together...