Thomas Hill, A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees… (1579)
“ 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. ”
