CANDIED HONEY. 



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CANDIED HONEY. 



that it can be spread on bread like so much 

 butter. 



Our peoi)le have found it advantageous to 

 adopt the H-lb. brick or 48 to the 60-lb. cake 

 from the square can. It sells in our market 

 from 25 to 80 cents retail, thus making a 

 good margin on 10-cent honey. 



CAUTION. 



Do not attempt to ciit the tin oft' from the 

 can of candied honey unless the honey is 

 very solid. If it is slightly mushy there will 



MACHINE FOR CUTTING CANDIED HONEY INTO BRICKS 



be trouble. The mass of candied honey 

 will squash out of shape, and run all over 

 every thing. There is no use in tiying to 

 cut up honey like this into bricks. It 

 should either be melted or put into oyster- 

 pails, where the process of solidifying can 

 be com])leted. It may be questioned 

 whether it pays to cut off square cans 

 and take the honey in a solid chunk ; but it 

 enables one to fill rush orders for candied 

 honey on short notice. Second-hand cans 

 are worth only a few cents; whereas to melt 

 the honey out and re-candy costs fuel and 

 time. 



warmed up, put it into the cold room again, 

 and so continue with changes of tempera- 

 ture. Stir the honey occasionally, and al- 

 ways make it a rule to have some candied 

 honey mixed with that which you desire to 

 bring to a solid condition, which greatly 

 hastens the process. 



EDUCATING THE PUBLIC TO CANDIED HONEY. 



The question may arise whether it would 

 be everywhere practicable to sell candied 

 honey in any one of the forms described. It 

 could hardly be deemed advis- 

 able to furnish buyers or com- 

 mission houses knowing nei- 

 ther the shipper nor the real 

 character of such honey. The 

 packer or producer must first 

 introduce it to his o^^^l cus- 

 tomers — people who know 

 him. The nature of the honey 

 must be explained ; how put 

 up; that only the purest and 

 best can be solidified in this 

 manner ; that it can be lique- 

 fied by putting the pail in 

 water about as hot ns tho 

 hand can bear, etc. In F'?ort 

 the trade must be educated to 

 it. The fact that no unripe cr 

 glucosed honey can be put up 

 in bags or bricks will be a 

 strong "talking-point" on the 

 purity of the honey. When 

 the facts once become known, old prejudices 

 give way. 



We have been putting up honey, both in 

 bags and in brick form, sliced by wire, and 

 the trade keeps so strong that we are scarce- 

 ly able to supply the demand. The grocers 



GENERAL REMARKS ON HOW TO MAKE HON- 

 EY CANDY QUICKLY. 



As we have already explained, continuous 

 zero weather is not nearly so favorable as 

 weather somewhere near the freezing-point, 

 now moderating up to the thawing-point, 

 then freezing, then thawing, etc. AVhen the 

 weather remains continuously cold, set the 

 lioney out in pails or bags in a room where 

 the temperature goes a little below freezing, 

 leaving it for a day or two, then bringing it 

 into a warm room. After it is thoroughly 



uaramecil 

 Grainilafc 



HONBY 



CANDIED BRICK HONEY, WRAPPED AND 

 READY FOR MARKET. 



have actually come after it. One of our 

 neighl)ors buys the honey, slices it up with a 

 wire, and wraps it in paper. By so doing he 

 says he more than double ; his money. His 



