On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Liz Day wrote:
 
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> One of the bee women at the fair said to use a double boiler
> to heat them in.  If I fill my mother's double boiler with wax,
> I'll have many problems that can't be fixed with hand lotion!!
 
I construct a double boiler by using a "wax pan" set in another shallow
pan such as a deep-dish frying pan. The wax pan rests upon something
other then the bottom of the boiling pan.