Tag: honey
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Honey Lemon Marmalade on a lovely late Winter Day
With the last of my lemons I made Honey Lemon Marmalade adapted from a recipe I found at Food In Jars. It was the most amazing day yesterday. We let the fire go out and I had the windows and doors open. The air wooshed through on the tail of the wind but I did…
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Honey Lemon Marmalade on a lovely late Winter Day
With the last of my lemons I made Honey Lemon Marmalade adapted from a recipe I found at Food In Jars. It was the most amazing day yesterday. We let the fire go out and I had the windows and doors open. The air wooshed through on the tail of the wind but I did…
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How do I ruin a perfectly good pair of Sheer Black Stockings?
Make beeswax! Didn’t expect that did you? I have these beeswax cappings left over from this fall’s honey making process. They have been sitting and waiting patiently for me to render the honey out of them and collect the wax. I have a special pot that I keep just for this job. It is impossible…
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lemon verbena honey with mama’s pikelets
Yesterday, much to the bemusement of the bees, I swapped their last little honey super (box) for a bigger brood super to expand into for the winter. The theory is that if they come out of winter into spring with a bigger house they will not swarm. Then I scarpered back to the kitchen with…
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Hi Honey I’m Home.
Well, we looked inside all the hives and there has not been a huge escalation in much of anything. I would say things are just puttering along slowly. Much slower this year due to those two hives swarming at the beginning of the month and all that rain in the spring. A couple of…
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