Hi all,
I just stumbled upon this : 

Seperating the Honey and Wax

TAKE the boxes, or hives, into a close room, secure from the access of bees, or they will be found very troublesome during the operation. As the combs are taken out, the top of the cells on each side must be pared off; this to give the honey a free passage through the sieves into which. they must be laid, and there left to drain into large glazed stone pans. Whilst the honey is running, it will be proper to burn some live coals of charcoal in the same room, to warm the air, which will cause it to run the freer and quicker from the cells; at the same time care is to be taken that no smoke is made, which would give the honey an ill flavour. The honey thus obtained, without being pressed, or squeezed from the combs, is the best and purest.

from The Boston Magazine, Containing a Collection of Instructive and Entertaining Essays, Feb 1785

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