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not too brittle — just »o it will form into a soft ball when taken in 

 the fingers. Pour into a greased dish, stirring in a teaspoouful 

 extract of vanilla jn.st before taking off. Let it be one-half or three- 

 fourths of an inch deep in the dish, and as it cools cut into squares 

 and wrap each square in paiatliu paper, such as grocers wrap butter 

 in. To make chocolate caramels, add to the foregoing 1 tablespoon- 

 ful melted chocolate, just before taking off the stove, stirring it in 

 well. For chocolate caramels it is not so important that the honey 

 be of best quality. 



Honey Apple-Butter. — 1 gallon good cooking apples, 1 quart honey, 

 1 quart honey vinegar, 1 heaping teaspoonful ground cinnamon. Cook 

 several hours, stirring often to prevent burning. If the vinegar is 

 very strong, use part water. 



Honey and Tar Cough Cure. — Put 1 tablespoonful liquid tar into 

 a shallow tin dish and place it in boiling water until the tar is hot. 

 To this add a pint of extracted honey and stir well for half an hour, 

 adding to it a level teaspoonful pulverized borax. Keep w'ell corked 

 in a bottle. Dose, teaspoonful every one, tw^o or three hours, accord- 

 ing to severity of cough. 



Summer Honey Drink. — 1 spoonful fruit juice and 1 spoonful honey 

 in ^ glass water; stir in as much soda as will lie on a silver dime, and 

 then stir in half as much tartaric acid, and drink at once. 



