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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 
a like ginger-beer, to the potent miodomel of the monks of 
okal. 
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. Ina 
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 
Reading, 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 
