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peel while boiling. Work this mixture with yeast, and then 

 put it in a vessel to stand five or six months, 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 fer- 

 ment ; 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 into 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 thorouglily ; put it back in the oven to bake still more, 

 stirring it frequently until it gets dry, granulated 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 that 

 is more grateful and refreshing. Try it. Many thousands of 

 pounds of honey may be used in this way, and all the users be 

 benefited. — British Bee Jonrnal. 



General Uses. 



Besides the foregoing, honey is used in preparations for 

 preserving leather ; in ointments for various purposes, such as for 

 chapped hands ; sores, &c. ; and is very largely used by chemists in 



