St Matthew shuts up the bees
This small ebook all about honey is one I picked up for subsequent to nothing from a car-boot sale in the summertime, it turned out to be an interesting little ebook, packed stuffed with every little thing you ever wished to learn about honey.
There’s a complete A-Z of the flavours of honey when it has been created from numerous crops and a number of other pages of quotes about honey.
If you wish to collect honey, do not kick over the beehive
Dale Carnegie
Tart phrases make no buddies: a spoonful of honey
will catch extra flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Benjamin Franklin
Do you know people have been harvesting honey for not less than 8,000 years, for many of these it has been taken from wild bees then got here straw skeps, from which the entire combs would have been taken. Then wood hives with function made detachable frames that we see at present and centrifugal honey extractors and honey manufacturing and harvesting grew to become loads safer and simpler.
I purchased this little skep formed honey pot from a boot sale just a few years in the past, just because I favored it. It is by no means been used for honey and sits on my bookshelves gathering mud!
The web page beneath is from my ebook ‘An English Nation 12 months’
We by no means stored bees on the smallholding due to having folks on the campsite and animals and since it is fairly a sophisticated enterprise which neither of us wished to be taught. Our neighbour over the highway had beehives and we frequently swapped eggs for a jar of honey. These days I all the time have a jar in the home purchased regionally from certainly one of a number of native producers. I prefer it finest on toast as a change from marmalade or in sizzling water with lemon and cinnamon for a chilly remedy. It is alleged to be good for burns and I’ve used it on burns from the oven cabinets once I’ve not had an Aloe Vera plant nevertheless it’s a sticky remedy and I am unsure it helps.
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Sue
