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Honeycomb in Your Recipes – 4 Ways

Honeycomb

Honeycomb, the golden waxy secretions of the honeybees are edible?

Yes, together with the hexagonal, honey-filled cylinders, the honeycomb is not only perfectly safe to eat, it is stylish and tantalizing! In fact, honey aficionados, connoisseurs and chefs highly value comb honey in their recipes.

The enchanting honeycomb is sturdy yet fragile. It is composed of hexagonal cells with walls that are only 2/1000th of an inch thick and yet capable of supporting 25 times its own weight. The most distinctive feature of honeycomb is perhaps its texture – chewy from the wax and a little crunchy from bits of sweet crystallized honey. Continue reading Honeycomb in Your Recipes – 4 Ways

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When stored properly, honey can last for centuries.

Store Honey

Experts from the National Honey Board explain that honey stays edible for decades, even centuries — but there’s a catch. Nature’s natural sweetener is highly susceptible to physical and chemical changes, and if stored incorrectly can darken, lose its aroma, flavor, and/or crystallize.

Still, that’s not to say the honey becomes inedible. As per the National Honey Board, crystallization is a natural process in which the glucose in honey precipitates out of the liquid honey. You can still consume it, but if the crystallization bothers you, spokespersons from the board says that placing the honey jar in warm water and stirring will dissolve the crystals.

The story of honey is older than history itself. An 8,000-year-old cave painting1 in Spain depicts honey harvesting, and we know it’s been used for food, medicine and more by cultures all over the world since.

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Popular Honey Recipes

honey recipes

Looking for honey recipes? Honey is one of nature’s gifts. Not only is it good for you, there are a multitude of honey recipes to put its unique qualities to good use in cooking. Cooking with honey is a good choice, because of its natural sweetness it is a great substitute for sugar. It can be used in many baked goods as well as jams and jellies.

From grilling to roasting, honey recipes can be found with just about any cooking method, and it can be used in recipes served either hot or cold. Replace sugar with equal parts honey in your favorite muffin recipe – the silky texture helps keep baked goods moist.

Whether giving a delicious glaze to meat, drizzled onto yoghurt or dipped in cheese. Honey as the natural way to give your food a buzz.

Here are a few honey recipes that benefit fom the natural nectar in the kitchen, Continue reading Popular Honey Recipes

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The Benefits of Raw Honey

The world of science is actively researching the benefits of raw honey and as a result, can now prove and explain the benefits honey holds. Stories of raw honey that were once considered ‘folklore’ are now being scientifically validated. There is now no doubt – raw honey heals!

1. Can Honey Help You to Live Longer?

Do you regularly consume honey?  If you do, you just might live longer according to a study in Current Aging Science.  This was a small study so the results always have to be taken in context, but the study suggested that those who regularly consume honey live longer than those who don’t. Continue reading The Benefits of Raw Honey

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Honey Bees are not native to America

Introduction of the European Honey Bee

Honey Bees are not native to North America

You may have heard that if it were not for honey bees, flowers wouldn´t bloom, trees wouldn´t bear fruit and many other plants would disappear…… not necessarily; the honeybee wasn´t introduced to North America until the 17th Century with the arrival of Spanish and European settlers. These early settlers were able to grow their familiar crops for many years before the honey bee finally made its way to this continent. Continue reading Honey Bees are not native to America

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Is Propolis a Cure for the Common Cold?

Propolis and Common Cold

Is Propolis a Cure for the Common Cold?
Scientists set out to answer this question in 40 children.   What they found was dramatic and totally unexpected.

It seems to come around every year: that rash of sneezing, coughing, aching friends and family members. Some years, no matter how careful you are about washing your hands and avoiding the sick, you still wind up catching a cold yourself. But if it happens to you, you don’t have to suffer. A growing body of evidence indicates that bee products like propolis can significantly reduce the duration of a cold and relieve symptoms. There’s still no cure for the common cold; but, the more research we do, the more we learn how propolis can help.

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