CANDIED HONEY. 



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CANDIED HONEY. 



iibout l(i(i°, and kept there for hours at Ji 

 time, before it melts enough to be poured out. 

 Our honey-man, Mr. Jesse A. Warren, con- 

 ceived the plan of stripping the tin away 

 from the lioney witliin, leaving it in the form 

 of a solid cake. With a pair of snips 

 he cuts oft' the top and bottom of the can, 

 then slits it down at one corner. He next 

 lakes a strand of steel wire, attaching a 



SLAB OF nONEY CUT OFF. 



handle to each end and slips it under 

 the cake of honey about two inches. The 

 wire is then folded around the cake, the two 

 ends crossed, and with a handle in each 

 hand the operator draws slowly, 

 sinking the wire gradually into 

 the cake from all four sides, 

 until continuous pulling causes it 

 to pass clear through. A thin- 

 bladed knife is now inserted in 

 the slit where the wire entered, 

 and slabs off a chunk like that 

 shown in the next plate. Other 

 pieces are slabbed off in like 

 manner. These are then cut up 

 into bricks, using the same gen- 

 eral plan — bricks all the way 

 from 5 oz. up to 2 lbs. They are 

 wrapped in ])arafflne paper, on 

 which are general directions ex- 

 plaining how to liquefy. 



CUTTING CANDIED HONEY WITH 

 A MACHINE. 



Tlie plan just described an- 

 swers a very good purpose 

 where only a very small quantity 

 of candied honey is to be cut up. 

 A far better apparatus is the or- 

 dinary butter-cutter shown in the 

 accompanying illustration, and sold by the 

 Cleveland Galvanizing Works, Cleveland. 

 The same thing, or something like it, could 

 be obtained of any dealer in dairy^supplies. 



This l)utter-cutter, as will be seen by the 

 illustration, employs the same principle— a 

 wire drawn taut for cutting butter. Since 

 butter luis about the same consistency as 

 liard-candied honey, the same machine will 

 slice up a cake of candied honey in uniform 

 bricks, and do it more quickly and neatly 

 than can possibly be done with a single 

 strand by hand in the manner explained. 



In using the machine, care sliould be 

 taken not to crowd the frame holding the 

 strands of wire too fast as it is a job, tliat 

 can not be rushed without danger of break- 

 ing the wires. A gentle continuous pres- 

 sure is what is required. 



For the perpendicular cuts a couple of 

 heavy weights are applied in such a way 

 that, after the cake of honey is put in place, 

 the horizontal frame and its wires gradually 

 work their way through the mass. When 

 the cake is cut the other way on the hori- 

 zontal line, the operator takes hold of the 

 gate, as it were, pulling gently. 



All that then remains is to take a thin- 

 l)laded knife, pick up each brick and lay it 

 on a piece of paraffine paper. The brick is 

 then neatly wrapped, when it is slipped 

 inside of a special carton made just large 

 enough to receive it. The carton is then 

 covered with another wrapper, neatly let- 



BUTTER-CUTTER FOR CUTTING CANDIED HONEY 

 INTO BRICKS. 



tered in gold, and containing directions how 

 to liquefy the honey when desired. As a 

 rule, the consumer is advised to use the 

 honey in the candied form by explaining 



