Comb Honey

[bleedingheart]

have you ever eaten it?

I got some on vacation and I am thoroughly enjoying it...

[KitchenWitch]

1. Love comb honey!

[bridgit]

2. is the best...

:D

[meganmonkey]

3. Are you saying my hair is ratty?

And who do you think you are calling me 'honey'?

Geez :P

[bleedingheart]

4. hahahaha

[jody]

5. It's best straight from the hive. Raw honey has survived 3,000 years. n/t

[In_The_Wind]

6. very yummy

[Shell Beau]

7. My husband and his friend got some

straight from a hive themselves. I still have some of it! Honey never ever goes bad!! You can keep it for 100 years. Those bees must be doing something right!

[bleedingheart]

8. that is really cool...does your husband raise bees?

[Shell Beau]

10. No and he is an absolute idiot for

doing it. But his friend knew what he was doing as he has done it several times. But still... Trust me, I was angry at first.

[bleedingheart]

11. i know the feeling...

an unattended husband can get into all kinds of trouble...

[Shell Beau]

14. Yes indeed. I don't think

he'll do it again, at least if he knows what is good for him. The bees will be the last thing he needs to worry about. ;)

[yewberry]

9. I think I read somewhere

that archaeologists found honey still good in an Egyptian tomb...but I don't know if it's true.

[Shell Beau]

12. I am sure it is true.

I found out that is never expires on Discovery. And it may have been the same thing you are talking about. It was a while back, so it's kind of fuzzy, but I remember being amazed about the honey.

[jandrok]

13. The sugars in honey are so refined that they kill bacteria.

The sugars in honey are so dense and refined that they draw water from bacterias, killing them and inhibiting growth. Honey has been used successfully as an antibiotic ointment for that reason. It's also been shown to kill various types of intestinal bacterias, so eating honey is good for you on many levels.

[bleedingheart]

15. very good to know!

the woman I bought it from was starting to use it to cure her sinus problems.

[jandrok]

16. I'd like to recommend a good book on the history of honey....

...and beekeeping. It's called "Robbing the Bees", by Holly Bishop. It's a great book that chronicles the author's own experiences with keeping bees, interspersed with her adventures following a small commercial beekeeper in Florida, along with a generous dose of the history of honey cultivation throughout the centuries. Lots of great information to be had in this book. If you're at all interested in honey or beekeeping, I'd get it.

[Kali]

17. actually the same is true of refined white sugar

sugar is an excellent preservative, although not perfect and actually honey can be dangerous for babies, slmonella, I think.

Honey definitly is more interesting and flavorful than white sugar, but chemically its not very different.