did you know honey Never expires , its a fact that honey was found in an egyptian tomb and was still edible after thousands of years

Oh and rumor has it that Alexander the Great when he died had his body preserved in a burial box FULL of honey

now those are indeed interesting facts. *hugs*

I use honey constantly as my prefered sweetener for most things. It adds deptch of flavor rather than just sweetness.

If I can't use honey and it's a recipe that really needs it, I find a 50/50 blend of agave syrup and brown sugar to be good.

Unusual honey fact: They found dehydrated honey in King Tut's tomb, once rehydrated, it was still edible.

There's a honey farm close to everyone :) No matter where you live.

honey is a special ingredient indeed. King Tut's Tomb wow. *hugs*

I used to use honey on a regular basis for Hangovers. When you wake up for your 5am pee after a night of heavy drinking, get a sport bottle half full of water and a few tablespoons of honey and shake it till its well mixed. Down it and go back to bed until its time for work. By the time you get up the Fructose in the honey has halted the toxic alcohol > acetyldehyde conversion (thats the part that makes you feel like death all day) and you can function like a human being for the rest of the day. Yay!

I swear by it. I've proven it. I share it. It works.

It's generally better to prevent the hangover flat out by interspersing a cup of water between each alcoholic drink, but yeah, I've used the honey thing myself when people were shoving drinks on me and I didn't want to say no~

Whe I drink, I drink to DRANK! If I wanted to pee all night, I'd do the water every other trick. The honey was a reliable treatment during a time of my life I wanted to wash away.

I don't drink booze enough to test that but I'll keep it in mind. *hugs*

It's also great if you're a "one drink wonder" and have a sensitivity to booze.

There is actually a few small honey apiary's near me. Small privately kept ones.
I love buying creamed honey from one of them.
Which on that subject, I love creamed honey. It's such a rare treat now days. Hard to produce. So it's not often found for sale.
I was reading about how it's made Apparently they seed incredibly pure honey with very very finely ground sugar crystals, made from a previous batch of crystallized honey. Then it;s kept at a precise temperature for a few weeks, letting the seeded crystals have their way with the pure honey, soon enough the whole batch develops microscopic crystals, fine enough that it becomes a thick smooth paste. The honey takes on a milky color as well a firmness and texture similar to butter or a soft body cheese. This makes it idea for spreading on bread and toast.
Personally, I love how well the dryness of honey and the sweetness compliments peanut butter. You would think with as dry and sweet as peanut butter is, they wouldn't work together. Somehow, the flavors mesh well and the dryness seems to vanish when eaten together.

What else can I say. Baklava!

I am yet to try creamed honey but I recently met my local apiarist and his father who is now retired makes small batches quite regularly. www.beeutifullhoney.com.au is the local man. I'm very lucky as I have at least 3 local suppliers near by. *hugs*

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I definitely suggest you give it a try. The person whom I buy from here often times will make batches that are infused with other flavors. Pecan and blueberry are two of my favorites.

How about a saying: "Bee healthy. Eat your honey"

sounds good to me. *hugs*

honey and peanut butter...I must try this. I've had honey and cheese, yum, honey and jam, still yum and weirdly honey and vegimite worked well for me and I enjoy it. *hugs*

a good remedy for a sore throat/coughing is warm lemonade and honey. I personally cant stand the taste but it works for a short bit

I'll have to try that, I wonder if it works with diet lemonade. Spring coughs and sore throats are in season for us downunder at the moment. *hugs*

Honey serves excellently as the sugar for a lot of teriyaki sauces, curries, and other Asian dishes. :3

If you bake with honey, it has a humectant effect like brown sugar does - it will pull in moisture from the air and from other food items (e.g., bread slices), keeping the baked good preserved against going stale for a longer length of time.

Didn't know about the humectant effect that's a very good hint. *hugs*

I use honey as a sore throat remedy if we can't afford cough drops. When I catch a cold, it usually goes straight to my throat. Every cold I've had, I've been unable to talk at least for a few hours during the whole thing (for 4 days was the worst one.) and if we can't afford Horehound cough drops/hard candies (I swear by those) we use honey lemon water. Fresh lemon, honey, and hot water works amazingly.

Also, it's recently been discovered that honey can prevent infection. They started putting honey on fresh cuts and scrapes and the bad bacteria sort of "sticks" to it until your body can seal the wound and you can wash the honey off. I plan to use that at some point!

I've tried honey on minor wounds and indeed I feel it works quite well and seems to encourage heathy healing. *hugs*

i recently learned how to make Greek honey fritters and that they were served at symposia ( which were mainly drinking parties with a side order of conversation back then ) info and recipe here www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLCtJH2jwOc

Honey can kill MRSA on superficial, infected wounds. More research is needed, however.

now that's a big nasty and indeed more research is needed. *hugs* glad there is promise in honey

1. Do you use honey? How do you use it?
Yes! I like to use honey in my tea. I also use it in cooking and baking if it's called for, but I mostly use it for tea.
2. What do you use if you can't use honey?
If I can't use honey, I use plain cane sugar.
3. Do you have an unusual honey fact to share?
If you eat a spoon-full of locally made honey every day for a long period, it (supposedly) helps with your allergies. I haven't tried this though, because there aren't any local honey farms in my area (that I've found). My vegan aunt and uncle do this ritual though, and say it helps greatly.
4. Do you have a honey farm near where you live?
See above.

Yum honey tea, very nice.
I can see how the allergies side of things would work, if the honey is made from loacl flowers that would include the ones you may be allergic to and in such small amounts a resistance to the allergen would build up slowly. I've never seen it done but one can always try. I must admit I find it odd that your uncle and aunt eat honey if they are vegan...I was of the understanding that honey in an animal byproduct and not consumed by those on a vegan diet.
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*Hugs back, smiling* No. Honey doesn't count as an animal product to them. I think it's part of the mindset of "bug's aren't animals," but that could just be a case by case thing. They eat all organic, they eat eggs as little as possible, the list goes on. I've learned a lot from them though. I make a mean eggplant parmigiana! Back to the honey though, honey in tea is one of my favorite things in the world. Adding a little cream is nice sometimes, especially in the morning.

I do a hot honey caramel coffee with icecream in it that even my daughter loves and she hates coffee as a rule. I'm sure its the honey and icecream that she likes. Honey in tea its like they were made for each other. *hugs*

Oh my... That sounds delicious... I love coffee myself~! Could I possibly have your instructions for that?

You may wish to adjust for a different size cup as we use very big cups for these tasty drinks.


1 600ml - 800ml cup
3-4 tsp of a good instant coffee (I use maccona)
2 tbsp honey or 3 if you like it sweet
1 1/2 tbsp caramel ice-cream topping
1/4 cup milk
Boiling water
dash of vanilla essence optional
1-2 scoops of vanilla icecream

Put the honey, coffee, caramel, (optional essence) and milk into the cup and slowly add boiling water allowing for space to add the ice cream. Stir well.
(The small amout of milk is to stop the coffee from being scoded by the boiling water)
Add one or two scoops of ice-cream making sure to dunk them under the coffee mix to begin to melt

Serve
with a sprinkle of milo or chocolate powder over the icecream
If you really want to jazz it up add two or three marshmallows then sprinkle with above choc powder.

Another option is to drop the caramel topping out and replace with a tablespoon of rosewater essence and some chocolate topping. It gives a turkish delight mocha twist to the coffee.

Essentially you will need to experiment to achieve the desired strenght that you want.

If you use two teaspoons of Splenda in there as well you'll get a frothy cappachino top. The other trick is to use Neslte's Capahino mix rather than straight coffee, I use three of these premixes in the 800ml cup when I have them.

Hope that works out for you. *Hugs*

Ah yes! The instant capp.! <3 that stuff DOES have a nice froth! I shall try this sometime.

I try to always keep raw honey around. I use it in herbal tea when I am sick or more often in a poultry marinade that I swear by. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6188156/ Mixing honey and peanut butter on toast is something I do rarely (I don't normally like peanut butter so I don't keep it around). Honey mixed with almond butter is also delicious.

If I'm out of honey I will use dark brown sugar or just regular sugar depending on what I needed it for.

It's always been a dream of mine to own a small farm, if I ever managed it I would keep bees. But for now I buy as local as I can.

Nice marinade recipe have you sent a link to the faccc I recone we would all like a look at that. I'm going to have to see if I can source almond butter and thy the honey almond mix out sounds interesting. *hugs*

Honey is wonderful thing indeed. I use it in baking, stews, curries, sweet and savoury dishes, teas, coffee, herbal drinks, breakfast dishes and just about anything else I can think of. I've used it cosmetically, as art of a poultice, for throat problesm and as a gargle.

I'm lucky that I live in an area with several apiarists including one that does bee removal. What I like is unlike some places that kill the bees this apiarist doesn't. He has property in the country and catches the hive whole at night then relocates it to the country property, he takes a few bees to have them checked as being disease free and if they all check out okay and after a certain amount of time he then blends the hive in with his active hives.

I also have easy access to Kangaroo Island honey which has a rare and pure strain of bees called Ligurian bees. They also make an awsom alcoholic honey drink called Island Sting. http://www.chainofponds.com.au/wdIS.asp

We now have access to another drink which is a honey soft drink with ginger in it sold through www.beeutifullhoney.com.au which is a delight to drink and a damn sight healthier than standard fizzy drink. I can access a huge range of flavours, including creamed honey.

So I guess you get the picture I love honey. I have to say though that I have to be very careful about my consumption of honey and related products I'm a diabetic bt let's face it a little goes a long way.

Favourite recipe that I wish to share

HONEY JOYS

Ingredients
90g butter or margarine
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon honey
4 cups Kellogg's® Corn Flakes

Method
Preheat oven to 150°C.
Line 24 hole patty pan with paper cases.
Melt butter, sugar and honey together in a saucepan until frothy.
Add Kellogg's® Corn Flakes and mix well.
Working quickly spoon into paper patty cases.
Bake in a slow oven 150°C for 10 minutes.
Cool.


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I put it in cupcakes and on top of cupcakes.
mmmmm yummy

Yes cupcakes definately benifit from honey. *Hugs*

mmmmm so tasty they are I sent them to a friend once on here and he was like.... man those were great cupcakes I was like
cuz they had honeyyyyy XD

1. Do you use honey? How do you use it?
I like to use it as sweetener instead of sugar, especially in tea.

2. What do you use if you can't use honey?
Brown sugar.

3. Do you have an unusual honey fact to share?
The mellifed man ( a corpsed preserved in honey) is supposed to be have healing properties. It's more a sacrifice, because the person must eat only honey before they die, before they get placed in a stone coffin filled with honey for one hundred years. It is mentioned in Chinese sources, though Arabian men are supposed to have done it.

4. Do you have a honey farm near where you live?
My dad is a country doctor, so he gets free honey by a farmer in his village sometimes! It is delicious.


A really fast dessert:
Greek yogurt with honey. You can also put fruit and nuts into it (very good if the nuts were already in the honey).

You dad is lucky.

Yum greek yoghurt and honey. I can get goat milk yoghurt from one of our local farms and that is delightful with honey. Its so popular now that they've started commercial production of it. *hugs*

I like to eat apples and honey, have honey in my tea, and have honey on my oatmeal/cereal (which when unavailable I use maple syrup). I wish I had an apiary nearby. As for an interesting fact, where I live there is a lot of oleander used as a decorative shrub, which is a highly toxic plant. So toxic that honey made from it's nectar may also be toxic, so perhaps its good I don't have an apiary nearby. Food for thought =3. Oh yeah, I haven't made it yet, but I want to make baklava...anyone have a good recipe?

I enjoy a mixed fruit that I dip in honey. My daughter is fond of frozen banana dipped in honey then in cocopops of all things. I'll have a look for a baklava recipe in the faccc files but I don't recal one. Who knows maybe we can have a baklava journal. *hugs*

This is a nice simple one that I tried from http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/157.....-friendly.aspx and it came out quite nice although I think I would add a heck of a lot more cinnamon than one cinnamon stick.


A simple Baklava recipe. Its straightforward to make but looks fabulous when you serve it. I use walnuts as I prefer the tatse.

Ingredients

Serves: 24
250g unsalted butter
1 packet filo pastry
2 cups chopped walnuts or pecans
1 1/2 tablespoons whole cloves
1 1/2 cups (375ml) water
1/3 cup white sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup honey


Preparation method
Prep: 30 minutes |Cook: 50 minutes

1.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.

2.
Melt the butter over low heat. Pour 2 tablespoons of the butter into the bottom of a 20x30cm baking dish. Layer 3 sheets of the filo pastry in the pan. Trim to fit the botom of the dish. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of pecans over the filo. Layer 3 more sheets of filo, brush generously with the melted butter, and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of pecans. Continue the filo-butter-pecan layers until dish is 3/4 full.

3.
With a sharp knife, score pastry to form diamonds. Press a clove at each end of the diamonds. Pour remaining butter over the dough.

4.
Bake 45 to 50 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown.

5.
Meanwhile, combine the sugar, water and cinnamon stick in a medium saucepan, and bring to boil, stirring constantly. Simmer for 10 minutes.

6.
Add the honey and simmer for 2 minutes longer. Remove from heat and discard cinnamon stick. Pour honey mixture over hot baklava. Let cool on wire racks. Cut all the way into diamonds.

Hey, thank you. I'm gonna make this for the people I work with.

1. Do you use honey? How do you use it?
In my tea, in my home-brewed ginger beer, and to make Barenjager. Soon I hope to make mead too!

2. What do you use if you can't use honey?
Sugar :<

4. Do you have a honey farm near where you live?
Several! It's a perk of New England

Oh my I love homebrewed ginger beer. gool luch with the mead. I would love you to send the faccc some photos and instuctions of your home brewing. It is a recipe after all*hugs*

Alas, I'm actually getting ready to release a small e-book on yeast brewing home made sodas.

well when you do release the e-book send the info to the faccc including a bit of a speil or what ever you want to say about it and we'll do a journal. I know I would like to know about it when you do.

My only memory of brewing ginger beer is when I was 7 and the bottle exploding leaving only three to drink. Then when my elder brother opened one of them the spay shot up and covered the family present in ginger beer...leaving about two inches in the bottle to taste. I remember the mess but hell I also remember the whole family and the laughter and my brother trying to stopper the bottle with his finger. lots of fun.

Honey can only expire if its humidity level goes above a certain percentage. Otherwise, it keeps forever. The reason being is that it's so dry that whatever bateria falls into it dies practically immediately of dehydration. With that said, it makes for a great alternative to a bandaid ;)

Indeed I was reading up on that as I may be doing a project on honey next year to finish off my schooling. Seems like a sweet way to finsh up. *hugs*

Heh :3

I bumped into someone on DA who was a full tilt vegetarian - and I had a rather interesting discussion there, but - she was against eating / using honey, since it comes from a living creature.

But even WITH that - I cant say that I entirely agreed with her views, since if you dont use / eat their honey, or their beeswax for candles, or etc you essentially put ALL of their efforts to waste.

views on subject in the vegetarian and vegan society are so wide. I've encountered nay sayers and yay sayers and some that will use the wax but not the honey and some the other way round.

I'm happy to use all bee products as long as they harvested with out harm to bees or their future collonies. *hugs*

True, but not outright eating it because "it comes from an animal" ?

Last I checked, bees were insects...not to mention, not even a mammal in the biological sense, since they cant provide 'milk' for their offspring....

And you really can't eat bees either :P

Mmmmm Honey.
I regularly by honey. It's the only way to have your breakfast tea.

I use honey for anything that needs sweetening XD Even tomato sauce.
I make honey mustard from scratch when I need it, so I usually use a flavorful orange blossom honey ^^
A little spice and honey makes an excellent sweet glaze for veggies and meat.

If your honey crystallizes or turns cloudy, microwave it back to a clear syrupy texture.
Honey also has antibacterial qualities, and should be a preferred sweetener for anyone suffering from a bacterial infection.

There are a few honey farms out here! And they're readily available at the farmer's market in my area. Some of the grocery stores also buy local stock :D

One of my supplies of honey leaves the honey in the back of his car parked in the sun when its turned cloudy and I cook with crystalized honey...too lazy to warm it up.

Farmers markets age great for honey supplies. *hugs*

1. Do you use honey? How do you use it?
I use honey, I LOVE honey. I put it on anything, chicken strips, toast, even mix it in teas when I'm sick. I take 1 tablespoon of raw honey to fight allergies. It's one of those weird things that works for some, and doesn't work for others. I use it in my cooking, too. :)
2. What do you use if you can't use honey?
Cinnamon sugar.
3. Do you have an unusual honey fact to share?
A tablespoon of raw honey a day keeps the allergies away?

4. Do you have a honey farm near where you live?
There are a handful of local bee farms, but I've never been to them because...
Bees scare me so bad.

Recently, I made a honey-pistachio butter!
View it here n3n
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8906719/

yum that butter looks amazing. Glad you sent a link to the faccc with it. *hugs*

Hmmm do I use honey? I do infact use honey in some of my cooking, I find it to add a good falvor to many sauces and don't get me started on desserts..

If I can't use honey I only see to valid options, either use muscavado sugar or invert sugar.

Fun facts! Did you guys that infact honey does contain alot of healthy stuff but the ordenary found in most stores are heathed which kills all the good stuff and just leaves it's ust as any other sugar! So if you want healthy honey you need to buy something that's not been heated. Oh and another fun fact, in demark(Don't know if it's true for oter places) if you produces under 200 liters of honey you can make it and sell it from a house, even if you smoke right over the honey or have a dog. There's no control with amounts that small.

And yes my school makes it's one honey, I've watched the bees many times and helped in the honey production

I knew about the healthy stuff being heated out in most commercial honey found in supermarkets but I didn't know about the Denmark health controls over honey. I'm not sure about Australia I'll have to check. I wish our loal schools had hives I think the art is dying but the regulations here at the schools won't permit bee hives because the insurance if an allergic child is stung is astronomical and they have a duty of care so they just don't do it. Many activities in schools in Australia have been stopped since I was a child. Its fun watching the bees do their thing. *hugs*

Well it should be noted that I'm studying to become a Chef, which I think explains the hive part. And we even made meed out of it, that was fun.
And it's sad to see that the world at some points have been come more protective. I mean it's great but we do have to live a little.. *Hugs*

Amen to that. We do have to live a little and the overprotetivness thing is really annoying. So how did the meed turn out? *hugs*

It turned out really good, it tasted great! *Hugs*