Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts : constituting a complete and universal practical library, and operative cyclopædia / by Colin Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, Colin, 1775?-1827.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts : constituting a complete and universal practical library, and operative cyclopædia / by Colin Mackenzie. 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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    Paper, to dye, various colours, — to render fire-proof, — to remove spots of grease from, — Hangings, to clean, — to colour, — — Papier Mache, to make, — — Parchment, old, to convert into leather, to make, — — to dye, various colours, — Parsley, qualities of, — — Parsnips, ditto, — — Mode of cultivating in Guernsey, — Parting, Process of, — — by Aqua-fortis — — by cementation — — Dry — — Paste, Liquid, to make, — — Chinese, to make, — — Flour, — — Furniture, — — PASTRY, &c. — —- Qualities of — — Cakes, Rich Plum, to make Good plain Ieeing for Rich seed Plain Pound Ratafia or Wiggs Bath Shrewsbury Portugal Ginger, without Butter Savoy , Saffron . Queen Rice Lemon Banbury Almond • Cream . Cheese, fine Almond Bread Rice Apple Gingerbread, plain , Crumpets Muffins Buns, common Cross . Rusks Custards, Orange . Baked . Rice Almond Lemon Tarts, Almond Page. 17O 563 183 • 8 5 126 56 599 ib 170 537 ■ ib 701 31 32 33 ib 51 776 777 54 320 53<5 ib ib ib . ib ib ib 321 ib ib ib ib ib ib ib 322 ib ib ib 323 325 ib 326 ib ib 322 323 ib ib ib ib 324 ib ib ib ib ib Tarts, Orange • Orange Puffs English Macaroons Biscuit, Fancy , Sponge Blancmange Clear PASTES TO IMITATE PRECIOUS STONES — — Paste for receiving Colours of a Blue Colour — — resembling the Sapphire - Eagle Marine P^ge. 325 ib ib 3*5 ib 326 ib fora Gold or Yellow Colour resembling the Topaz -Chrysolite Emerald 776 ib 767 ib ib ib 768 ib for a deep Purple Colour — resembling the Amethyst — for a perfect Black — of an opake Whiteness — hard, formed by Calx of Tin or Anti mony — — resembling the Opal — Ruby, a cheaper Garnet — Vinegar Garnet Red Cornelian — White Cornelian ■ Turquois —• ib ib ib ib 7C9 Peaches, Qualities of, — *— Pears, to preserve, — — to keep, for Market, — Qualities of, — — Pearl-ashes, to make a lixivium of, Powder for the Face — Bismuth ditto, — — Water for the face — Pearson’s, Dr. Composition of Gum Arabic, — — Peas, to raise in Autumn, — to sow, in circles, — Early sown, to prevent mice from destroying, — — Qualities of, — — to cultivate, — — Peat and Peat ashes, use of as manure, Peats, to char at the moss, — ditto for family use, — Pcccalili, to make, Indian method, — Pelisses, to scour, — — Pcllitory, Wall, Medical virtues of, — Pencil Drawings, to preserve, — Pencils, artificial black lead, to make, English Drawing, — Penayroyal, oil of, to obtain — Water, Simple, to make — ib ib ib ib ib ib 77I ib ib 538 C>45 646 537 94 344 ib 343 528 634 635 536 69O 671 730 ib 335 18O 503 55 97 ib 279 278 Peppermint Cordial, to make, Drops, do. — Spirit, do. — Oil of, to procure, w Water, to prepare, Pepper, Jamaica, Water, Cayenne, to make. Perry, to manage, to make, Perspective, scale for dividing the vanish, ing lines PERFUMERY AND COSMETICS Eau dc Cologne, to make Mclisse de Carmes Bouquet . • Essence dc Jasmine Honey Water, to make Ottar of Roses . Milk of ditto, English French Cream of Roses, to make Pomatum, Cold, for the Com - plexion . . Pommade Divine, to make Pearl Water for the Face Almond Bloom, to prepare . Paste . , Pomatum, Orange . . Soft Common Hard Rosemary Pearl Powder for the Face Bismuth ditto Caution in using ditto Orange Flower Paste for the Hands Coral Tooth Powder • Another ditto . • Vegetable Tooth Brushes An Astringent for the Teeth Excellent Opiate for ditto Rose Lip Salve * • • White ditto - To sweeten the Breath . • Perfumed Bags for Drawers • Perfume for Clothes Gloves Tincture of Musk 27O 330 284 . 274 279 ib 639 221 222 98 3-10 ib ib 341 ib ib ib ib 542 ib toprevent Pestilential Airs,&c. ib for sick rooms. Pastils Explosive Pastils Aromatic ditto Hair Powder Ambergris Musket and Civet Orris • Violet Rose ib ib ib 348 ib ib io u> ib ib ib 343 ib ib 343 ib ib 344 ib ib ib ib 345 ib ib ib ib ib 34<5 ib ib 3+<5 ib 347 ib