Excerpt from Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting a Complete Practical Library Relative to Agriculture, Bees, Bleaching, Brewing, Calico Printing, Carving at Table, Cements, Confectionary, Cookery, &C. &C. &C Theoretical reasonings and historical details have, of course, been avoided, and the object of the compiler has been to economise his space, arid come -at once to the point. Whate'ver men do; or desire to do, With the materials with which nature has supplied them, and with the powers Which they possess, is here plainly taught and succinctly pre served; whether it re 'ard complicated manufactures, means 0 curing diseases, simple processes of various kinds, or 'the onomy, happiness, and preservation of 1 e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.