To 1 ounce add twenty-four drops of boiled linseed oil: rub them thoroughly together in a mortar; then spread out the mixture, for a few days, to dry. When dry, mix with starch, dextrine solution, or gum water, and chop into 3⁄8 or 1⁄2 inch cubical blocks.
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Nitrate of Lead | 8 | 24 | 28 | - |
| Chlorate of Potash | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Charcoal | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Steel-filings | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Nitre | - | 4 | 3 | - |
| Shellac, fine | - | - | 1 | - |
| Sulphur, washed | - | - | - | 1 |
Mix together on paper, damp with lac solution, and chop into cubical blocks. The composition may also be pumped into roman candle streamer stars.
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Nitre | 12 | 26 | 2 | - | - |
| Charcoal | 5 | 11 | 1 | - | - |
| Zinc-filings | 14 | 28 | 4 | 10 | 15 |
| Meal powder | - | - | 1 | 8 | 12 |
| Vegetable black | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Sulphur | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Nitre | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Charcoal | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| Meal powder | 16 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 8 |
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Steel-filings | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Meal powder | 4 | 7 | 8 | - |
| Nitre | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Sulphur | - | - | 1 | - |
| Charcoal | - | - | - | 3 |
| Nitrate of Lead | - | - | - | 10 |
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| Meal powder | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Sulphur | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Nitre | 8 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 48 | 24 | - | 18 |
| Sulphuret of Antimony | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Sulphuret of Arsenic, Realgar | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - |
| Minium, or Red Lead | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Nitrate of Lead | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Chlorate of Potash | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 |
| Shellac | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Chlorate of Potash | 8 | 36 | 40 | 40 | 36 | 9 | 44 | 40 | 6 |
| Calomel | 4 | 18 | 24 | 24 | 12 | 3 | 12 | - | 5 |
| Sugar | 3 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 4 |
| Sulphuret of Copper | 5 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 22 | - |
| Stearine | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Oxychloride of Copper | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
| Sal Ammoniac | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - |
| Copper-filings | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |