Everything Honey Today!...Well, As Honey As It Can Bee!...

Recipe from Company's Coming Millenium Edition

Honey caramels/fudge

Beautiful Comb

Hollow Log with Honey Bees and their Combs

Busy Bees and their combs and honey!

The winter time, is my favorite time of the year for making fudges.....It's too hot in the warmer months, and in the winter they chill and set up much easier with the help of placing the old pot into some snow to help cool it down faster for whipping....This recipe is so nice, delicate, and the honey hit's the spot! I was so proud of back in the fall that we had our first harvest of homegrown honey! By chance last summer an old hollow log that was brought up to the yard/laneway near our barn for firewood, and never got cut up, made for a perfect home for a colony of honey bees! All summer we watched, and eventually in the heat of the summer and fall, could smell this sweetness as we'd walk by it to go to the barn....Come the fall, when we started to get cold/freezing spells (the bees went temporarily dormant and hid way back in the log), my mother started to venture into our log to see what she could find....we removed some of the comb, and slowly drained the honey. Just so amazing! What a beautiful, and neat first time experience of discovering our organic honey! Anyways, we are hoping they will continue to produce this spring/summer season, and I'd like to bring out more hollow logs from the forest for them to settle in as well....It's all new to us, or me, so i'm starting to do some more research on raising honeybees, and would like to do it as naturally, and simple as I can. So I made up a batch with the little bit of honey that we harvested!  I love making fudges, from various recipe books, or mixing up my own concoctions, especially candy coatings for candied popcorns.....Another one of my fave all natural ingredients is using our own fresh maple syrup from our forest! That will be my next topic on here soon, maple sugaring! We are currently getting ready to tap, and the weather is just not behaving very well for sap to run, or so we feel by the cold/freezing day temperatures we are still having! Stay tuned for pictures and tidbits on that!

~Rosemary~