Dip into honey...

[Texasmujer]

For a dose of protection for your heart sweeten your foods with dark-colored honey, such as buckwheat honey instead of sugar. A gram of honey is as high in antioxidants as a gram of many fruits and vegetables. These antioxidants may provide some health-promoting benefits.

[Tartan Paint]

I want to taste heather honey "just to see what it's like".

[HollyElise]

Another good one is active Manuka honey. It comes from New Zealand, and it's very different... it has sort of a sulfur taste to it. I didn't like it the first try, but what's funny is everyone i know who's had it develops a love of it, including myself. I haven't been able to find it in the U.S., so i bring back several containers whenever i visit the U.K.

http://www.manukahoney.co.uk/

[HollyElise]

Honey is also really good for allergy prevention. I read in Prevention Magazine years ago that if you take a teaspoon of honey every day starting in winter, that your seasonal allergies will be less severe or even eliminated. I would add, that to ensure it has the best success, buy LOCAL honey, and buy it for the season where you have the allergies. It's easy to tell which season honey comes from.... the lightest color is from spring, medium golden is harvested in summer, and the darkest honeys are late summer/early fall.

I've never had trouble with allergies, but i've told this to several of my friends who do and it helped them a lot! Vincent used to have a terrible time with hayfever, and now has no symptoms at all!

[Not_Just_DNA]

I am amazed by what happened when I started adding local honey into my diet (honey isn't something I really have ever used much of.) My Dr. recommended I add some honey to my diet to see if it would help with my cedar allergy this winter. I am taking several medications already, so despite my skepticism I was hoping the honey would work so that I could avoid taking allergy meds in conjunciton with everything else. To my amazement it did, I haven't had so much as a cedar sneeze (I have cedar allergies). Normally come January I am quite miserable, but this is the first year in a while that I really did breathe easy! I don't know if it works for everyone, but it did work for me.

[HollyElise]

That is SO cool! I'm glad it worked out for you!

[pogofish]

I made-up a couple of bottles of this at the weekend using Deeside Heather Honey. Two-months & ticking now!

Recipe - Heather Honey Schnapps
Use pure heather honey of good quality.

In fact, you can use any good quality honey - there are hundreds of unique flavours to choose from. Try for instance Acacia, Lime, Clover or Sunflower.

However, in this recipe I have chosen to use heather honey, because it makes such a wonderful schnapps.

Direction:


In a clean glass jar, combine 350 gram pure heather honey and 1 deciliter boiling water.

Add - a little at a time - 35 centiliter clear, unflavoured vodka - 40% alcohol content (80 proof).

Stir until completely blended.

Steep for at least 2 months in a dark place at room temperature, 18-20°C (64-68°F).

Shake well morning and evening for about a week.

Hereafter - shake and taste it from time to time.
Your schnapps is ready now. But some storage (aging) improves the taste. Remember to store in a dark place at room temperature.

If necessary, dilute it to suit your taste with the same type of vodka you used as base. Leave it a couple of days to settle.