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‘Honey has also great value as a medicine for children, and is 
readily partaken of by them as a choice dainty dish. It is especially 
useful to children atiicted wish scrofula or rickets. In difficult 
teething, rub the gums with a mixture of honey and an emulsion of 
quinces. For the removing of worms, honey has often been beneticially 
used, and it is often used in diseases of the mouth and throat. 
‘* Honey mixed with flour and spread on linen or leather is a simple 
remedy for bringing to head, or to maturity, boils, &c. Also, honey 
mixed with flour or fried onions, serves an excellent purpose as a 
covering for any hard swelling or callosity or abscess; and for ulcers 
it is often mixed with turpentine, tar, and tincture of myrrh. A 
plaster made of unslaked lime and honey has sometimes relieved most 
obstinate sciatica. 
“‘ If good honey is applied to infiamed wounds or boils, it lessens the 
drawing, quiets the pain and producesa good festering or suppuration. 
Undoubtedly, for all wounds, pustulous inflammations, bruisesand bad 
festerings, honey is the best and most reliable remedy, and affords 
quicker and safer help than all other known plasters ; all that is needed 
is to spread it rather thick on a piece of linen, place it upon the fresh 
wound, bind it fast, and renew the plaster every four or five hours. 
Of course, if bones are broken, surgical aid must be had. 
‘‘ Honey-dough—arto mele—a plaster made out of honey and rye 
flour or rye bread, into which henbane or other narcotic substances is 
mixed, is an excellent means of irritation ; which should be used in 
festering and bringing the sore to a head, and assuage the drawing 
and pain. It should be warmed, spread on a piece of linen and placed 
upon the sore part. 
‘‘ For persons who are weakened through fast living, honey is, of all 
helps, the best nourishment, since it not only removes the poisons in 
the system, but also through its virtues strengthens the system ; hence 
it has made itself so necessary to the inhabitants of the Orient.” 
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RECIPES. 
HONEY CAKES. 
In Germany “Honig Kuchen” or honey cake, is quite an 
institution. The booths exhibiting this article in all its 
varieties form one of the most characteristic features of the 
German Kirmesses or Fairs, which are held periodically in 
most of the towns, as well as at the Schutsen Fests and all 
similar public festivities. Some of the following recipes taken 
from Mr. Newman’s book no doubt represent the articles ex- 
posed for sale on such occasions :— 
Hampure Honey Caxe.— The flour intended for this cake should 
be well dried and sifted before being weighed; then take twelve 
pounds of flour and twelve pounds of honey ; bring the honey toa 
