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Definition: Honey is a natural sweetener that is made from bees, APIs usually by gender (commonly called "bees"). Bees make honey from the nectar of flowers and for their boys feed hives used. The bees regularly produce a surplus of honey, so that beekeepers harvest honey from the hives without harming the bees.

As honey is used?

For over 8000 years, honey is used as a sweetener. Before the introduction of sugar cane in the New World in 1400, Honey was one of the main sweeteners used in Europe. In ancient times, honey has been used for a variety of applications, including treatment of burns, embalming the dead in Egypt, the funeral rites in Georgia and elsewhere, and cooking in many places. (For more information on these topics can be found in the history of honey as food.)

Today is honey used mainly for culinary purposes. It is a popular sweetener in baked goods, is advantageous because the chemistry of many baking recipes. It is a popular sweetener for drinks because it is liquid, and as such it is mixes easily in hot or cold beverages. It is also popular as an accompaniment to cheese and fruit and toast, and can be fermented into an alcoholic beverage called mead or honey wine.

Honey is used today for various health reasons.

Types of honey

Honey is usually collected on the type of flowers the bees nectar to classified. The most common type of honey is clover honey, which has a mild, relatively neutral taste. Other types of honey are:

• Light with a mild taste alfalfa honey, is that
• Buckwheat honey is dark and full-bodied
• Eucalyptus honey varies slightly, but is generally strong and light medicinal taste and aroma
• Manuka honey, which is black and a medicinal taste (and is used primarily for health reasons)
• Orange blossom honey, often a combination of citrus sources makes, usually light in color with a sweet citrus flavor
• Sage honey, that the body is heavy, but light in color and taste
• Tupelo Honey, which has a mild, but good drinks and frozen distinctive flavor pairs, because it resolved a high content of fructose and not, unless extremely cold is granulated in frozen drinks easily

In addition to these types of honey "single flower" (a flower), no mixed groups, honey (polifloral, which are commonly known as "wildflower honey" and are made when (the different types of honey) bees collect nectar from various types of flowers) and honeydew (which are made when bees collect the sugary secretions of aphids and other insects that suck the sap from plants instead of harvesting the nectar of the plant). Some grocery stores also offer special taste honeys, which can be flavored with lavender, hazelnut or other flavors.

For more information, check out this video of the types and uses of honey and a table with the flavor profiles of different types of honey.

Raw honey, filtered honey and processed honey

Honey can also be carried as processed, packaged, sold or distributed are classified in untreated. These are some common types of specialty honey:

• Chunk honey is honey that is made one or more pieces of comb honey immersed in extracted liquid honey.
• Comb honey is honey still in beeswax. The wax is almost tasteless, but edible.
• Honey cream (also known as "shock honey", "honey rotate", "honey smoothie", "crystallized honey", "on the basis of honey" or "Honey" is known) is honey that has been processed to control crystallization. It is popular and toast in the UK (where it is often called "set of Honey") to spread.
• Dry honey honey becomes liquid completely to solid, non sticky granular form dried. It is mainly used as a topping for desserts.
• Crystallized honey, also known as "crystallized honey" or known "candied honey," honey is the semi-solid shot naturally or through treatment. Many types of granulation of honey in the course of time, but this slows down the process of pasteurization.
• The filtered honey is honey that leaked until all or substantially all of the air bubbles, fine particles, pollen and other materials that are commonly found in suspension removed. Filtered honey is clear in appearance and does not crystallize as quickly as unfiltered honey that is sold the most commonly used method for honey in the supermarkets.
• Pasteurized honey honey to 161 ° F flash (71.7 ° C) is heated or higher. Although this process kills bacteria and yeast cells in the honey potential, but also reduces the quality of the honey.
• Real Raw honey is honey as it exists in the beehive or as it was when it harvested by extraction of the solution or the effort. There was no heat added in the production of goods raw honey. But some "minimally processed" Honey is also considered "pure honey." If taken regularly throughout the year, considered real, raw honey as a natural treatment and prevention of allergies to pollen.
• Strained honey is honey that has seeped through a mesh to particles, as for example to remove pieces of wax or propolis, without removing beneficial, such as pollen, minerals or enzymes.
• Honey is honey ultrasound was sonicated alternative treatment non-thermal pasteurization. Ultrasound destroys most of the yeast cells occurring naturally in honey, to substantially slow the crystallization rate and the fermentation of honey. (However, it is interesting that the crystallization of honey is not bad - it's just a visual defect -. And Honey is known for over 100 years to be "fresh")

For more information, read this article about colors, shapes and textures of honey.

Honey Coffee Recipes

Honey is a popular sweetener for coffee. Perhaps the most famous drink honey sweet coffee is coffee with honey (Spanish for "coffee syrup"), but is also generally iced coffee sweetened with honey, because honey is simple, mix brown sugar in ice cream.

This coffee recipes use honey to sweeten, and sometimes other aromatic notes:

Honey tea recipes

Honey and hot tea are often described as soothing to the throat. Maybe that's part of why honey sweet teas are so popular. And as for iced tea - honey is just easier to mix in a glass frosted sugar, what could ever be!

More recipes honey

Honey is an important ingredient in many recipes. For example, two ingredients (honey-mustard and honey-Dijon vinaigrette) are different because of their namesake taste like honey. Here are some recipes that contain much honey:

Honey acts as a liquid cooking or baking in many of these recipes, but it can also shine with another liquid (coffee and tea, of course). Here are some of my favorite non-coffee, no tea drink recipes honey: You have probably by now that honey can be used as an important ingredient in many recipes, ready. Few people know is that it also act as a substitute for granulated sugar. In order to half of the granulated sugar substitute honey for sugar in sauces, marinades and salad dressings, honey substitute in a recipe. When cooking with honey, you can also honey for use up to half of the granulated sugar in a recipe, used for every 1 cup of honey, a liquid is reduced in the recipe by ¼ cup, add half teaspoon of baking soda and reduced the oven temperature to 25 degrees Celsius.

One last fun recipe at home ... Honey Honey Soap.