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Take honey drained from the comb, and gradually heat 
it over a fire, until it begins to boil, skim and take it 
from the fire, and put a wet towel or table-cloth over it, 
and let it remain about a quarter of an hour. This 
process should be repeated four ar five times, and the 
honey then put up for keeping. Tin's honey will be 
superior to fresh honey in a few years, its quality being 
greatly improved. 
4th. How TO PRESERVE FRUIT WITH HONEY. — Put 
the fruit in jars, prepare the honey according to recipe 
No. 3, and while warm, pour it over the fruit so as to 
fill the jar ; put on the cap, and seal with wax and 
resin. In this manner, fruit can be kept a number of 
years ; and when the honey is poured from the fruit it 
will taste like and be of the consistency of jelly, strength- 
ening for the sick and a dessert for the healthy. 
5th. Honey- Vinegar. — 1 ’ake forty gallons of rain 
water, heat it and pour it in a barrel, add two quarts of 
whiskey, three pounds of honey, five cents worth of 
citric acid, and a little mother of vinegar ; fasten up 
the barrel, and put it in the cellar, and in a short time 
it will contain vinegar unsurpassed for purity and ex- 
cellent taste. 
6th. To make Wax from Comb. — Take all combs 
emptied of honey, and all wax obtained by separating 
honey from comb by heat ; put all of it in a pot or 
kettle, pour water over it, boil and stir for ten minutes ; 
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