HONEY RECIPES

People of all times and countries have always been concerned with the question of long live. This is proved by the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and China, ancient monuments of India and Greece. To maintain healthy and long life a correct diet is needed. Philisophers and doctors of antiquity attached an enormous value to the honey, believing that adding it to the food can prolong human life. Quite often people who regularly eat honey reach a great age.

For a long time honey has been the basic source of sweetness for a man, therefore it left its mark on the menu of a European sweet buffet. Mainly honey was added to confectioneries (cakes, gingerbread and other). Also it was used in the Middle and Far East as a liquor for hot pastry like bakhlava. Soon, after sugar appeared on the market, the use of honey in ready-to-serve foods and pastry quickly grew short. But today, after estimating the maximal usefulness of honey in its vitamin and mineral mixture and the harm of refined food like sugar, people again turned to honey as the perfect natural product.

The recipes of the confectioneries, hot and cold honey drinks, fruit and vegetable meals with honey can be used daily, help to maintain the vitamin and mineral balance throughout a year and prolong live and youth.

OAT DRINK

1,5 l of water
1,5 glass of oats
1 table of spoon honey
0,5 of lemon
yield - 1 l.

Pour some cold water to the oat and bring it to the boil. Leave it in the warm place for 3-4 hours. Then add some lemon gratings, sift, add some honey and lemon juice. Serve warm.

Drinks prepared on the basis oat infusion and wheat brans are recommended not only to still thirst but also in medical purposes for people who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal disturbance and metabolic diseases. When mixed with dried or fresh fruit these drinks become really invigorant and bracing.

FIG AND CARROT DRINK

0,5 l of water-
1 glass of dried figs
1 glass carrot juice
honey – at your choice
yield- 1 l.

Wash the figs with warm water and thoroughly grind. The grinded mass pour with hot water, stir and bring to the boil. Then turn off the fire and leave for 1 or 2 hours, sift, add some honey and let it chill. Then add some carrot juice.

CAROTENE DRINK

1 glass of water
2 glasses of carrot juice
1 glass of orange juice
2 lemons
1 table spoonful honey
yield - 1 l.

Melt the honey in the water, mix up with the carrot juice, orange juice and lemon. Chill properly. While serving garnish with a piece of lemon.

HONEY AND LIME FLOWERS DRINK

10 l of water
800 g of honey
lime flowers enough to make the infusion look gold

Lemon acid at your choice

Pour hot boiling water over the dried lime flowers, leave for 30 minutes, sift, add the honey and the lemon acid. Chill properly.

LEMON JUICE WITH HONEY

500 g of mineral gas water

50g of honey
juice of 1 lemon

MEAD (MEDOVUKHA)

8-10 l of water
3-3,5 kg of honey
120-150 g of hop
4 tea spoons of yeast

Chill the boiled water to room temperature, add the honey, hop and yeast. Sift the drink after some fermentation, chill and it is ready to be used in 1,5-2 months. Keep in a cool place.

EGG-NOG

2 glasses of milk
6 table spoons of honey
1 egg
2 table spoons of lemon or orange juice

Mix the egg, cold milk, honey and juice and whip it to the smooth. Serve chilled.

HONEY AND CREAM DRINK WITH ORANGE JUICE

100g of cream
1 table spoon of honey
100 g of orange juice
1 egg-yolk

Mix all the ingredients and serve chilled

HONEY COCKTAIL

100 g of milk

35 of honey
1 egg-yolk
2 g of cinnamon
yield 150 ml

Mix all the ingredients and sprinkle with ground cinnamon before serving

HONEY AND ORANGE PUNCH

1 glass of hot water
100 g of water
orange syrup - 10 g,
orange juice - 20 г,

1 g of lemon peel
0,2 g of cloves.

Pour the cloves and the lemon peel over with hot boiling water, sift, add the honey, syrup, juice. Stir and sift again.

ASHBERRY JAM WITH HONEY

500 g of ash berry
300 g of sugar
450 g of honey
yield- 1 kg of jam

Sort out the ash berries that were collected soon after the first frost. Take away the pedicles, wash the berries in cold water and then with hot boiling water. Pour over with hot syrup, leave for an hour – 1.5 hours and then boil before the syrup gets thick. To make the berries sweet – leave them in the syrup for 6-7 hours before boiling.

“A BEE” CAKE

3 glasses of flour
150 g of margarine.
6 table spoons of sugar
30 g of yiest

Filling
80 g of honey
200 g of almonds
5 pieces of bitter almond

30 g of yiest
4 eggs
4 tablespoons of milk
a pinch of salt

Make the yeasted dough. Add the margarine and sugar to the honey, boil and add grated sweet and bitter almond. When the mass is chilled, add the eggs, milk and sale. Then put the mass on the dough and bake for 25 minutes.

APIARIAN CAKE

3 glasses of flour
400 g of honey
1 glass of sugar
5 eggs
1 glass of sour cream
some cloves and grind cinnamon
1 tea spoon of baking soda

Melt the honey and mix with sugar, eggs, sour cream, cloves and grind cinnamon, soda and flour. Stir till the mass gets smooth. Then put the mass on the baking pan touched with some oil and bake at a moderate temperature.