HONEY BREAD
RAW HONEY
Honey bread is delicious and nutritious. As a bee-keeper of some 50 years of experience, taught by my grandfather, please indulge me. I have a passion for this subject! The difference between raw honey and the crap you buy in the supermarket (yes, I'll be crude, it's that important to me!) is absolutely vast. However, when making honey bread, use supermarket honey. You're going to heat it anyway.
An aside: Grandad, what are you teaching the little ones? Mom and dad don't have enough time, but you do! There's no greater privilege than handing on our love of carpentry, or bees, or gardening ... the list is endless to the next generations. Baking?
Number one complaint of the British teenager: Life is boring . Grandparents can make such a difference to the lives of their little ones. Mine did, and I still bless them for the rich life I enjoy. Their input made all the difference.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
- Yeats
Yes, growing and cooking green beans is another of my passions. Legumes for better protein.
So, it is time to arise and go now, and go find a small local beekeeper. In the season you could take your own glass bottles (if he will allow it), and buy a year's stock. Take him a loaf of your honey bread, and you will have a friend for life. Honey keeps because of a very important enzyme that releases small amounts of hydrogen peroxide, which kills any bugs. (That incidentally is why raw honey is so good for burns, wounds, varicose ulcers, scar formation and tummy troubles.
Varicose veins in legs and honey ...
Beetroot constipation - the colon's next best friend.

Raw, unheated honey contains live enzymes; that's one of the reasons why it is so good for
indigestion heartburn
Lightly filtered it contains the pollen granules, and the taste is ... divine. Those pollen grains have proven benefits for the prostate gland. Tomatoes and phytogens too...
TOMATO PROSTATE
Raw honey will probably crystallise in time, perhaps even quite quickly. That's NOT not a sign that sugar's been added! It's a sign (if the crystals are nice and uniform, and the overall consistency is of a smooth paste, perhaps quite hard) that it's good honey, the real McCoy. Please do not put the jar into hot water or the microwave. If you want it soft, put it on a sunny windowsill with a dark cloth over it, and not for too long. And don't use it for your cooking - get that honey from the supermarket.

The king was in his counting-house
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour
Eating bread and honey.
INGREDIENTS for HONEY BREAD
Baking with yeast is not for the faint hearted. Having personally done it for years, I would recommend the beginner start with this easy recipe. - 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp powdered ginger
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup supermarket honey
INSTRUCTIONS
- Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl of an electric mixer.
- Beat the eggs, then add the milk and honey to the eggs and beat them together.
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add the mixture to the dry ingredients and beat well for at least 15 minutes but preferably 30.
- Butter two 8-inch loaf pans and divide the batter between them.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes. The honey bread loaves will be puffed and golden when done.

Beekeepers have a good working relationship usually with a local chiropractor. Honey is heavy stuff and most often lifting whilst bending and twisting is what does the back in. Good chiropractic will sort it out, but an ounce of prevention with exercise and good ergonomics makes a lot more sense. For more about back exercises, sign up for our
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HONEY FOR WOUND HEALING
Wounds in general, and venous varicose ulcers on the lower legs in particular, respond very well to a proprietary gel called Melladerm that is largely raw honey. Honey has the capacity by osmosis, due to its very high flower sugar content, to extract water from the wound and promote healing...
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