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" Butter Honey Cake is pronounced by all to be excellent. 

 One pint of flour, i tablespoonful of butter, i teaspoonful of 

 soda, 2 ditto of cream of tartar, and honey sufficient to make 

 a thick batter. Spread out an inch thick, and bake in a hot 

 oven. 



" To make Mead, not inferior to the best foreign wines, put 

 3 lbs.- of the finest honey to two gallons of water, two lemon 

 peels to each .gallon ; boil it half-an-hour, and skim well. Put 

 in the peel while boiling. Work this mixture with yeast, and 

 then put it in a vessel to stand five or six nionths, when bottle 

 for use. If desired to keep it for several years, add four pounds 

 of honey to a gallon of water. 



" A cheap Honey Tea Cake is made with one teacup of 

 extracted honey, half ditto of thick sour cream, 2 eggs, half 

 teacup of butter, two' of flour, scant half teaspoon of soda, 

 one ditto of cream of tartar ; flavour to taste. 



Metheglin. — " Mix honey and water strong enough to 

 carry an egg ; let it stand three or four weeks in a warm place 

 to ferment ; then drain through a cloth, and add spices to suit 

 the taste. 



" Honey Vinegar is obtained as follows : — Heat 30 gallons 

 of rain-water and put it intp a barrel ; add two quarts of 

 whisky, three pounds of honey, three-pennyworth of citric 

 acid, and a little mother of vinegar. Fasten up the barrel, 

 place it in the cellar, and in a short time it will contain vinegar 

 unsurpassed for purity and excellence of taste." 



Mr. Allan Pringle gives a substitute for tea and coffee : — 

 Take three quarts of good, clean, wheat bran ; and bake in 

 the oven till it becomes.quite brown. Then add one quart of 

 liquid honey and stir thoroughly ; put it back in the oven to 

 bake still more, stirring it frequently until it gets dry, granu- 

 lated and very brown. Draw it the same as coffee and use 

 with milk and honey, or milk and sugar to suit taste. 



Honey-Lemonade. — Make it in the usual way, using honey 

 instead of sugar ; nothing can be used as a summer beverage 



