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How to boil raw honey
1. The method of making raw honey is as follows: when making honeycomb, you need to prepare an old beehive, wash it with clean water and dry its surface, then break it into pieces with your hands, and then put it on a clean panel. Prepare a hard cloth and crush it into powder.
2. Mash the earth honey harvested once or twice a year into a paste. Heat it in a stainless steel or ceramic container, and when the temperature rises, you can see that the beeswax begins to melt. To stir properly, the beeswax will float on the surface, use a tool to remove the beeswax from the surface, and the rest is pure cooked honey.
3. Mash honey: mash the earth honey harvested once or twice a year with bee spleen into a paste. Honey heating: heat it in a stainless steel or ceramic container. Stirring beeswax: as the temperature rises, we can see that the beeswax begins to melt. If we stir it properly, the beeswax will float on the surface. Skim off the beeswax: remove the beeswax from the surface with a tool, and the rest is pure honey.
4. In fact, honey is not "raw" or "cooked". Honey is generally taken out of the beehive, filtered and packaged and then directly listed on the market. Of course, some honey, such as Jingtiao honey, is easy to crystallize in winter. In order to facilitate filtration and sub-packaging, it usually needs to be heated and melted, but the heating temperature is generally no more than 50 ℃, otherwise it is easy to destroy the active substances, so this kind of honey can not be called ripe honey.
5. Honey cannot be ripened by means of frying, boiling and boiling like other foods. From a scientific point of view, the mature honey brewed by bees themselves in the beehive has the highest nutritional value and the longest shelf life. It only needs to be filtered to remove debris such as wax residue and larvae, and then it can be eaten directly without any processing. In fact, mature honey is taken out of the hive, filtered and packaged, and then directly put on the market.
How to make honey
Honey refining is: take honey into the pot, add the right amount of boiling water to boil, remove the floating foam, then use No. 4 sieve to remove impurities, continue to refine until golden brown. It is a golden thick liquid. The taste is extremely sweet and fragrant. Honey used in making traditional Chinese medicine honey pills must be refined before it can be used. Its purpose is to remove impurities, evaporate part of the water, destroy enzymes, kill microorganisms and enhance adhesion.
Honey production steps are as follows: material selection: honey should be selected before no floating foam, dead bees and other impurities of high-quality honey, if honey contains such impurities, it is necessary to place the honey in the pot, add a small amount of water (the total amount of honey water does not exceed the pot's 1gamma 3, to prevent overflowing when heating) heating boil, and then use No. 4 sieve to filter, remove floating foam, dead bees and other impurities, and then into the pot heating, refining to the desired degree. There is no need to filter this part of high-quality honey.
The choice of honey: the purpose of honey selection is to ensure the quality of honey pills, so that the made honey pills are soft and do not deteriorate during storage. Honey refining: honey refining refers to the operation of heating and refining honey. The resulting product is called refined honey. Honey contains more water, dead bees, wax and other sundries, so it must be refined before application, its purpose is to remove impurities, destroy enzymes, kill microorganisms, reduce water content and increase adhesion.
What is the state of pure honey after it is boiled?
After boiled honey color will become darker, honey color becomes dark amber, taste also has a little change, can taste a weak sour taste, the taste is very good.
The reason why honey turns black in a pot is actually very simple. The following field bees herding bees will explain to you. The main components of honey are glucose and fructose, both of which belong to monosaccharides, while sugars are carbonized. There are two forms of food carbonation, and dehydration by heating is a very common one. When honey is heated at a high temperature, the water in the molecule will gradually take off and carbonize, leaving mainly carbon, so it blackens.
After exposure to the sun, real honey becomes thinner, while fake honey remains unchanged or thicker. If honey is extremely sparse and easy to flow, it may be mixed with water. Look at the label: some honey products have ingredients such as sucrose, sugar and fructose syrup, but pure honey products are not allowed to add these substances. Carefully smell the pure, natural smell of real honey, with a hint of botanical flowers, while fake honey smells pungent or fruit sugar.
Pure honey may not be very transparent, but it will be relatively sticky. You can try to stir it up with chopsticks. If it can drip into silk and shrink into honey beads, it is good honey. In addition, you can also try to drop honey on the newspaper, if the honey is clumpy and will not wet through the newspaper, it is good honey, more fake honey because of more water, easy to let the newspaper wet through.
The method of making raw honey is as follows: when making honeycomb, you need to prepare an old beehive, wash it with clean water and dry its surface, then break it into pieces with your hands, then put it on a clean panel, and prepare a hard cloth. Crush all the salt into powder.
In fact, this is the natural physical change of honey, not the result of sugar addition. Honey that is really mixed with sugar is not easy to crystallize, and honey that is easy to crystallize is pure honey. Therefore, China's honey quality standard stipulates that the normal state of honey is "transparent and viscous liquid or crystal". Honey will not melt until it is about 40 degrees Celsius after crystallization, and it generally needs to be melted by water-proof heating.