HI Steve,

The recipe I was taught is to whip one part Crisco shortening and one and half parts (by volume)
granulated sugar with a bit (an ounce per pound of mix) of your own healthy bees' honey. 
Then load the stuff into a caulking gun and squirt a bead on the top bars of brood frames
particularly August - October for soft management of trachea.. 

My experience is the bees consume it readily as opposed to
a grease patty that might get nibbled on and I ended up chucking after a few weeks. 

Kathy

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