Thrift is a positive quality. However, consumers often do not know how to dispose of stocks, especially beekeeping, if they have been stored for several years. Curious what can be made from old honey at home.

Scope of application of old honey

Depending on the purpose, a delicacy is used.

Honey medicine

When using honey in the treatment of pathologies, attention is paid to:

  1. Decrease in biological activity after a maximum of 2 years.
  2. Destruction of vitamins by acids.
  3. Monosaccharides are retained from carbohydrates.
  4. Macro - and microelements during storage almost do not change.

On a note. Storing a jar of honey for more than 2 years means that it will lose most of its beneficial qualities, therefore it is unlikely to be suitable for full treatment. This does not apply to last year's honey, which was stored under conditions.

 

Storing a jar of honey for more than 2 years means that it will lose most of its beneficial qualities.

Natural dessert

A sweet product is often used as a delicacy due to:

  • richness and sweetness of taste;
  • versatility of the smell;
  • uniqueness of the aftertaste;
  • naturalness;
  • uplifting mood.

With a decrease in activity, the honey taste and aroma change.

Storage conditions

Compliance with storage requirements determines the fate of the honey product:

  • temperature as high as +10 ° С, without drops and fluctuations;
  • dark and dry place without light penetration;
  • crockery texture: faience and ceramics, plastic and metal.

Such honey is used without fear further, despite the partial loss of beneficial properties and taste indicators, due to the preservation of minerals and carbohydrates.

Attention! Failure to comply with the storage rules is reflected in the appearance. When the honey has changed color, stratified, it smells unpleasant, bitter, and is not suitable for further use. In this case, honey is not recommended for culinary processing. Eliminate product residues.

Beauty industry

The weak half of humanity is curious about how to use old honey in cosmetology. The presence of a rich composition of minerals and carbohydrates in the residue is good for the skin and hair and makes you look great.

It is easy to make a scrub from honey melted in a water bath, along with chopped nuts. Honey is appropriate for massage: it increases the lymphatic drainage effect of the massage therapist's movements and corrects the problem of cellulite.

In cooking

Honey, which is stored for a long time, but without fermentation and unnatural plaque, is used to prepare culinary delights. A small list of things to do with old honey includes:

  • all kinds of desserts;
  • salad dressings;
  • sauces for meat;
  • baked goods;
  • intoxicating and refreshing drinks.

How and where to use old honey

Anti-dandruff

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Honey has antifungal properties. Mixed with shampoo or systematically applied to the scalp.

How to use: honey (1 tbsp. L.) Diluted with water (1 tsp. L.) And rub the gruel into the skin for 2 minutes. After 2 hours, wash with lukewarm water. The procedure is repeated after 2 days.

 

Honey has antifungal effect

To fight a hangover

To be in shape the day after the walk, medicinal tea is prepared. Fructose will enhance the metabolic process, ginger will relieve gastrointestinal irritation and nausea.

How to use: pour a piece of ginger with a steep pitch and insist for 15 minutes. A slightly cooled drink is mixed with honey (1-2 tsp) and drunk on an empty stomach.

For cleaning the skin

A honey-based scrub does an excellent job of exfoliating the epidermis, removing dead skin cells and saving you with an expressionless face tone.

How to use: 1 tsp. baking soda is stirred with 60-70 g of honey. Lightly spray the skin with water and gently wipe with a scrub in a circular motion. Rinse off thoroughly with water.

To get rid of stretch marks

The product tightens and brightens the scars that remain on the skin. Thanks to its anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect, it boosts skin regeneration, heals and dissolves scars.

How to use: taken in equal proportions (1 tsp each), olive oil and honey are applied to the affected area. Massage for 1-2 minutes. Place a hot towel on top until it cools. Repeat every day.

In acne therapy

Antibacterial and moisturizing properties are considered when using an acne remover. Honey relieves redness and itching.

How to use: lubricate problem areas, after 20 minutes. washed off with warm liquid.

From burns

The tool effectively heals burns, protects against the development of infection, thanks to its bactericidal effect.

How to use: lubricate a thinly burnt place, renew the procedure when absorbing honey.

For cough and throat relief

Effectively resists colds, coughs and sore throat. The product is harmless to children.

 

Effectively resists colds

How to use: knead honey (1-2 tablespoons) with the squeezed juice of 1 lemon and drink, keeping it in your mouth for a minute.

Bakery products

Pie with honey and apples

Ingredients:

  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • honey - 100 g;
  • apples - 3 pcs.;
  • baking powder - 1 tsp;
  • lemon - ½ part;
  • flour - 1 tbsp.;
  • white sugar - 200 g;
  • citron zest - 1 tsp;
  • melted butter - 6 tbsp. l .;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • brown sugar - ¼ st.;
  • vegetable oil.

You will need liquid honey, apples - sour. The products determine the originality and freshness of the taste. The energy value of a portion of baked goods is 300 kcal.

 

You will need liquid honey

Cooking technology:

  1. Wash the fruit and peel the seed chamber and skin.
  2. Cut the fruit into slices.
  3. Pour honey, lemon juice into the dishes, add apples.
  4. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly.
  5. Turn off the gas and allow the mass to cool.
  6. Grind sugar with lemon zest and butter.
  7. Eggs are added.
  8. Sift flour into a separate bowl.
  9. Mix with salt and baking powder.
  10. Slowly, flour with baking powder is introduced into the egg-sugar mixture, stirring actively.

Grease a baking sheet with oil, then place the dough. Spread the apple slices taken out of the syrup evenly on the surface, slightly melting them. Bake the product in an oven preheated to 200 ° C. The baking time takes 50-60 minutes. Pastry is poured with honey-apple syrup, cooled and removed from the mold.

Making honey from honey

 

With surplus of last year's honey, beekeepers feed it to bees

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With surplus of last year's honey, beekeepers feed it to bees. When preparing honey from honey, an extreme option is used in mid-September, when the following occurs:

  • decrease in the number of old bees;
  • reduction or termination of uterine egg laying;
  • Hymenoptera inactivity.

At the end of the day, honey frames are taken out into the yard and placed near the apiary. Then the frames are fed with unsealed and old honey, despite the time until the sushi is completely cleared.

Bee work is monitored so that the honeycomb is not gnawed through. They also change the location of the frames with honey, which is good or bad for the bees. As a result, there are frames with very hard honey - "refined sugar", which gnaws a small number of insects until frost.

On a note. If honey is fed, it is forbidden to have disease-affected frames.

How beekeepers make mead

Honey products

There are many recipes for how beekeepers make natural mead. Often, beekeepers replace the yeast with bee bread, which activates the fermentation process. Out-of-bar honey improves taste.

To make mead by old recipe, you will need:

  • 1000 g - linden honey;
  • 50 g - wheat;
  • 25 g - perga;
  • spring water - 2 l.

The use of technology involves mixing honey with water, adding wheat grains, which are infused for 3 days.

It is important that the wheat sprouts. Grind half of the slurry and return to the mead. After the completion of fermentation, a week later, the tincture is filtered. Then bee bread is introduced, which is mixed with water, wheat and honey. They put on 21 days in a dark room.

The mead is insisted on the cold for at least 6 months, during this period the bee bread is gradually reported (once every three weeks). The addition of spices depends on taste preferences.

Old honey with no signs of changes and spoilage is in demand in various spheres of life: alternative medicine, cooking, beekeeping. In addition, they cannot do without honey-based cosmetic products at home.