paraffin wax = canning wax = household wax = baker's wax Notes: Canners sometimes use this wax to seal jars, but it's hard to get a tight seal. It's safer and easier to use two-piece canning lids.
Paraffin
Many cheeses are coated with a paraffin wax, particularly those destined for export markets. Edam is probably the best known. The wax protects the cheese.
Pasteurisation
The treatment given to partially sterilised milk.
Paraffin:
A waxy substance used for coating items such as cheese and the tops of jars of jams and jellies to keep air out, thus preventing spoilage.
Parathas: ...
Edible paraffin passes through the body without being absorbed. It is found in many candies, chocolates and even in those wax bottles of strangely flavored syrups I remember from my childhood.
Paraffin: see parawax.
Parat: a big round plate with high side rims, which is generally used for kneading dough.
Paraffin: A waxy white or colorless solid hydrocarbon mixture used to make candles, wax paper, lubricants, and sealing materials. Also called paraffin wax.
Refined paraffin was later used and then chicle, which was probably first imported into the United States through Mexico. A chicle gum was patented in 1869 by William and Semple.
Melt some chocolate and a little paraffin wax (yes, the kind for canning, it's OK to eat-it's in every candy bar) in the microwave (usually just 1-2 minutes will melt it). Dip bananas in chocolate and roll in chopped peanuts.
Melt paraffin and chocolate in top of double boiler; keep warm over simmering water while dipping candy. Dip coconut balls in chocolate; remove with a fork, shaking off excess chocolate. Set on waxed paper while chocolate sets.
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This mellow, savory Holland cheese has a pale yellow interior and a paraffin coating. Made from part-skimmed cow's milk, it is Holland's second most exported cheese ("Gouda" is number one). Eel ...
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It is a transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes (typically 15 to 40 carbons) [1] and cyclic paraffins, related to white petrolatum.
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By chance, he saw a little girl buying paraffin a "pretty poor gum" at a drug store. Adams asked the druggist if he would be willing to try a new kind of gum. He said yes. Adams rushed home, soaked and kneaded the chicle into small grayish balls.
best to let the air bubble that is in the flask traverse the still-hot jam by turning it upside-down after the lid has been placed on. This is to disinfect the air bubble. Or, instead of a lid, the jam can be protected by pouring molten paraffin on ...
by an insect (Eriosoma mali), somewhat similar to the green-fly of the garden, but not a true aphis. It may be removed by scrubbing with a hard brush, by painting the affected spots with any bland oil, or by washing them with dilute paraffin and soft ...
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