Your Urban Homesteading Vocabulary Word of the Day: Slumgum
...ore: “slumgum.” Slumgum is the dark brown sludge made of propolis, larvae parts and dirt that you’re left with once you filter out the wax. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, we can thank my fellow Californians for this nineteenth century neologism. The OED cites the 1890 classic, Gleanings of Bee Culture, as the earliest occurrence of the word “slumgum,” 1890 Gleanings Bee Culture XVIII. 704/2 The cappings are laid on this perforated tin...