You may want to place some wax paper or newspaper on the floor.

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Baked twists of buttery dough, topped with mustard and served on wax paper is another product of the improbable marriage between Italian and Amish.

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Butter two 8-x-2-inch round cake pans, dust the insides with flour, tap out the excess and line the bottoms with parchment or wax paper.

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The most common way to desensitise an explosive is by mixing it with a non-explosive material, such as wax or paper.

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To manufacture the tests, a scientist feeds a sheet of chromatography paper into a generic Xerox office printer, which prints a layer of colored wax onto the paper.

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These included aluminum foil, paper, silicone, wax, tape, casting compounds and many other techniques that were incredibly novel and advanced at the time of their development.

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We were right on the cusp of the electronic age and had begun to use phototypesetting machines, but the paper was still composed physically on cardboard flats with film strips, X-Acto knives, hot wax, and rubber rollers.

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