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Artificial Honey (Take the wax still appears)

Take 10 the wax still appears yellow inside, it is nepounds Havana sugar, 4 pounds water, 40 cessary to melt it again, and flake and expose grains cream of tartar, 10 drops essence of it a second time, or even oftener, before it bepeppermint, and 3 pounds honey; first dissolve comes thoroughly bleached. The time rethe sugar in the water over a slow fire, and quired being mainly dependent on the state of take off the scum. Then dissolve the cream of tartar in a little warm water, and add, with some stirring; then add the honey, heated to a boiling point; then add the essence of peppermint; stir for a few moments, and let it stand until cold, when it will be ready for the weather. There is a preliminary process, by which, it is claimed, much time is saved in the subsequent bleaching; this consists in passing melted wax and steam through long pipes, so as to expose the wax as much as possible to the action of the steam; thence into a pan heated by a steam bath, where t