Honey |
Honey is one of the food used by the people who firsty lived on the Earth. The worker bees obtain it from flower nectar and from honey-dew of plants. It contains sugar that can be easily digested.
NectarIt is a sugar liquid obtained from vegetable lymph that is inside flower petals. Honeydew
It is obtained from vegetable lymph after some bugs have sucked the lymph from the plant and evaquated it. In our region the plants are fir-tree, pine, larch and some other as oak, beech, poplar, chestnut tree, willow and line.
Honey Formation
In the hive the worker bee passes to another bee a drop of what it has picked. This drop is rapidly passed to another bee. After 15 minutes the content of water is reduced and the glandular secretion that contribute to sugar formation. The drop is put in the beehive and sealed with wax.
CompositionFructose (38%), glucose (31%), disacharide (8%), other sugar (2%), other substances (4%), water (17%). Working Process
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| Honey type |
Scent | Taste | Grandmother Stefania advice | Use |
| Fir | Thin and deep | Pleasant resin aroma | Balsamic against anaemia and inappetence | Spreaded on bread, with partridges |
| Acacia | Light, characteristic lilac aroma | Sweet, perfumed, delicate | Tonic, detoxicates liver | Sweet in tea, coffee, yogurt and mascarpone |
| Orange | Fresh orange blossom | Pleasant citrus fruit | Calming against insomnia | In ice-tea, in pastry, in coktails |
| Chestnut | Deep | Very strong, a bit bitter | Blood circulation stimulating | With pork chops |
| Arbutus | Strong and typical | Bitter, a bit resined | Diuretic and antiseptic | For making cakes and liqueurs |
| Eucalyptus | Clean, aromatic, typical | A bit bitter, characteristic, marked | Febrifuge, against cold and bronchitis | In bitter-sweet sauces |
| Sunflower | Very light | Fresh, sweet, tender | Recalcifying bones | With black olives, sea-fruit, beans |
| Lavender | Fresh and fragrant | Marked and floral | Lightly analgesic | With dessert, on bread, on pheasant, on pineapple |
| Rhododendron | Typical and light, floral | Characteristic, a bit pungent | Agaist neurosis, bronchitis, inappetence | With polenta (mush) and milk |
| Rosemary | Fresh but strongly floral | Pleasant and aromatic | Against hepatic insufficiency | With chestnuts and cheese (best if goat's milk cheese) |
| Alpine | Sharply aromatic | Pleasant floral | Disinfectant for breathing | On bread after meal, weakens heavyness and sleepiness |
| Lime | Strong scent of flower | Quite perfumed, typical | Calming and sedative | In hot drinks, grog, hot-wine |
| Thyme | Sharp and characteristic | Pungent and aromatic | Disinfectant for broncus and vermifugal | In Italian "Gonzaga crayfishes" recipe |
| Clover | Light, fruited | Light | Energetic | With cooked fruit |
| Taraxacum | Marked, herbaceous |
Pleasant, marked | Diuretic and laxative | With borage in a frying pan |
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