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Candies and Candy Making: Japanese

Or for white wax, substitute bleached wax for beeswax and color with Spanish white. on To Test Adulterated Wax. - Beeswax is sometimes adulterated with spermaceti or Japanese wax. To test for Japanese wax, cover a sample with concentrated solution of borax and bring it to a boil. Beeswax is insoluble in this solution, but Japanese wax dissolves and forms cooling a milky-white sticky coating.

Imitation of Beeswax. - Melt together 14 pounds of yellow rosin, 7 pounds of suet, 1 pound of turmeric, 2 pounds of potato flour and mix and form into cakes before it cools. If the color is too bright, add a little ivory black. Rub each cake when cold with flour.

Or 8 pounds of yellow rosin, 4 pounds of pure mutton tallow or stearin, and 14 pounds of palm oil. pound of turmeric Or substitute in place of palm oil.

Or place 1 ounce of pure annotto in 1 quart of water. Bring to a boil, stir in 5 pounds of mutton suet or stearin, 10 pounds of yellow rosin, stir and boil until well mixed and colored. Pour into molds to cool.

Dust the cakes when cold with cornstarch.