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Shute's Artificial Honey

Soft water, 6 pounds; pure best honey, 3 pounds; white moist sugar, 20 pounds; cream of tartar, 80 grains; essence of roses, 24 drops. Mix the above in a brass kettle, boil cver a charcoal fire 5 minutes, take it off, add the whites of 2 eggs well beaten; when almost cold, add 2 pounds more honey. A decoction of slippery elm will improve the honey if it be added while cooling, but it will ferment in warm weather and rise to the surface.

Strauss, of St. Petersburg, likewise removes an excess of tannin by means of gelatin. 1567. Rebling's Method of Purifying Honey. One half ounce of honey and 1573. Cuba Honey. Good brown sugar, ounce water are mixed with grain pow-11 pounds; water, 1 quart; old bee honey in BEES' WAX. the comb, 2 pounds; cream of tartar, 50 grains; gum-arabic, 1 ounce; oil of peppermint, 5 drops; oil of rose, 2 drops. Mix and boil 2 or 3 minutes and remove from the fire.

Have ready, strained, 1 quart water in which a table-spoonful of pulverized slippery elm bark has stood sufficiently long to make it ropy and thick like honey. Mix this into the kettle with egg well beat up. Skim well in a few minutes, and when a little cool add 2 pounds nice strained bees' honey, and then strain the price of paraffine have made this substance one of the principal articles used in the falsification of wax, and perhaps of all others it is the least objectionable, being without marked physiological effect upon the system.