Oct 16 2008
How to detect pure honey
I just love honey, how about you? Because I hate the taste of sugar except in a chocolate, I use honey to sweeten my drinks and cereals. I read somewhere that honey is the best antibiotic and so I when have a cough I cut garlic in thin slices and put them in a jar honey and I would scoop a spoonful 3 times a day until I get better.
Anyway, I grew up with honey. My mother used to buy and sell honey and I remember having a huge bucket filled with honey in the house. And everytime a seller comes to our house my mother would test the purity of the honey first. Depending where she is she used either of these two tests.
The paper test: She would drop a pearl-size honey on a paper and observe if the liquid passes through the paper. If it doesn’t then it’s pure. Otherwise it’s contaminated.
The match test: If she is at home, she takes a match, dip the head in the honey and strikes it in the box. If it fires up then it’s pure. Otherwise it’s contaminated.
So go to your cupboard now and do either of these to test if your honey is pure.
By the way if you are from the UK the pure honey that I have tested and tried is the Morrison Value Clear Honey.
What kind of plant did it come from when she made it?
Please forgive me but I don’t know which plant the honey came from. But what I know is that no matter where honey come from if it is pure then it is pure. My province produce natural honey and people find them on the trees especially in the forest. We do not produce cultured honey bees at all.