¶Howe to make Waxe white. Cap. xxxviij.
WAxe is made white in this manner, firſte that kinde of waxe (fit for this purpoſe) ought to be whiter and purer, and broken into little peeces, putte after into a newe earthen panne, pouring vppon it ſufficient ſalt or ſea water, and a lyttle Nitre bruſed, which ſeeth altogither. When the ſame hath boiled twice or thrice vp, remoue the panne from the fire: the waxe being throughtly colde, take forth of the panne, and ſcraping off the filth, if any ſuche hang on, putte againe into newe ſalte water, ſeething it againe. And when the waxe hathe ſo often boyled (as aboue was taughte) then take off the panne from the fire, and taking the bottome of a newe earthen panne, melt it with colde water, whiche dippe by little and little into the waxe, drowning it a little, and the water be aboue the waxe, whereby the waxe maye become verye thinne, and be the ſoomer cooled it ſelfe. And taking by and by oute the moulde or bottome, drawe firſte the rounde cake off, and wetting againe the bottome in colde water, dip it into the waxe, and the ſame ſo long doe, vntill you haue drawne off all that waxe into cakes of like ſorte, whiche after ſtiche throughe with threede, hanging the cakes on a rope one from another, and that in the daye time often wetting them in the Sunne, but in the nighte time, in the Moone light: and ſo long doe this, vntill the waxe be white. And if anye deſireth to haue waxe whiter than this, then let him do the like, as aboue ſaide, but boyle the waxe oftner. Some in ſteede of the ſalte ſea water, take ſtrong Brine water, in whiche they boyle the waxe in the ſame manner twice or thrice, as aboue was taughte. And Paulus Euerdus in his booke of Confections, teacheth the making of waxe white two manner of wayes.
