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have ready a kettle with a little cold water in it, and a 
board perforated with a number of half inch holes, 
over it. Now take the wax from the fire, pour it in a 
bag, put it on the perforated board over the kettle, put 
another board over the bag, and weigh it down with a 
stone. In a short time the wax will be in the kettle 
below ; and if there should be some wax left with the 
impurities in the bag, it may be boiled and pressed 
again. 
7th. Elaboration of Wax. — Take the wax melted 
from the comb, scrape all impurities from the bottom 
side, put it in a clean kettle, pour clean water over it, 
boil and stir ; if there should be any scum upon it skim 
it clean ; after it has been boiled about twenty minutes, 
take it off, and let it get cold, take out the layer of 
wax, scrape the bottom of it and boil it again, and 
again, in clean water, until the desired purity is ob- 
tained ; while boiling the last time, put in two ounces 
of starch for every pound of wax. 
8th. To Make Metheglin. — Take two pounds of 
honey for every gallon of water ; mix together and boil 
until the mass has attained such a consistency as to bear 
a hen’s egg, with its end reaching out of the liquid. 
Then remove it from the fire, and when cooled off, put 
it into casks so as to fill them nearly full, cover the 
bung-hole with a cloth, bring the cask into a place hav- 
ing a temperature of sixty degress Farenheit, and allow 
