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or where honey can be cheaply obtained in the immediate 

 neighbourhood, such drinks are sure to come into favour. 

 Annexed will be found several recipes for the preparation of a 

 variety of beverages, varying in strength from a light summer 

 drink, like ginger-beer, to the potent miodomel of the monks of 

 Tokal. 



MANUFACTURES. 



The chief purposes for which honey is used in such large 

 quantities as may be considered to bring the operations under 

 the head of manufacturing industry, are beer brewing, liqueur 

 and vinegar making, confectionery, biscuit making, and fancy 

 soap making. 



As regards the use of honey in beer breweries, an American 

 writer, Mr. G-. W. House, says : — 



' ' Grape sugar is now largely used in the manufacture of beer. In a 

 conversation with a prominent brewer of Brooklyn, who is now using 

 dark extracted honey in place of grape-sugar, he said ' that the honey 

 could be used at eleven cents (fivepence-halfpenny) per pound, and be 

 cheaper than grape-sugar, besides making a beer that could not be 

 excelled in purity and healthfulness. ' If bee-keepers will go to a little 

 trouble, they can establish a trade in this line that would demand more 

 honey than is now produced." 



There can be little doubt that brewers in all parts of the 

 world, where they find they can get a sufficient supply of honey 

 at a reasonable rate, will be glad to follow the advice of their 

 American colleague, or at least to give the system of manufac- 

 ture a fair trial. 



Great quantities of honey are required for the manufacture 

 of liqueurs, vinegar, and for confections of various sorts. Some 

 fancy confectioners, or sugar bakers' establishments, use up as 

 much as ten to twenty tons of honey each in a year. 



A large demand has lately arisen for fine honey to be 

 employed in the manufacture of biscuits. In May, 1884, it 

 was announced in the British Bee Journal that Messrs. Huntley 

 and Palmer, the well-known firm of biscuit manufacturers, of 

 Beading, were prepared to contract for a supply of two tons 

 of honey per week, or one hundred tons at the end of the 

 season, for the manufacture of honey biscuits. There are other 

 extensive biscuit makers who may be expected to follow this 

 example, though, probable, not upon so large a scale. Honey 



