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To: nw_arizona_granny
"Heat 8 ounces of light honey in a double boiler."

I tend to wince when I see words like these. Is there any way to combine the lavender with the honey cold? Heating honey is not a nutritionally good idea.

Honey should never be heated above about 100 degrees. Heating turns a perfect, safe sweetner into one that is just as harmful as granular sugar. There are literally hundreds of beneficial phyto-chemicals in raw, unfiltered honey. Raw honey is the very best disinfectant for skin cuts and abrasions, and it is also beneficial just eaten.

4,592 posted on 06/15/2008 10:44:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: editor-surveyor

Honey should never be heated above about 100 degrees. Heating turns a perfect, safe sweetner into one that is just as harmful as granular sugar.<<<

If you had fresh flowers, you might get some of the taste, if you put them in a jar and placed in a sunny window, or maybe not in the sun, but warm and under 100 degrees.

If using Lavender, the leaves of the plants also taste like lavender.

If you are thinking of planting, be sure you get the right varieties as all the lavender plants are not the same.

Freeper Diana in Wisconsin knows which are the best lavender plants.......LOL, I forgot again.

I agree with the fact that honey is a healer, it is what I used on the goat udders, if they got scratched.

I also gave the goats warm honey and salt water during birth, an old timer told me to do so, so there would not be the shock to the goat, from the delivery and that the act of giving birth forced the salt and other minerals from the goats blood.

Some wanted it very hot, others would let it set and then all of a sudden, hours later, drink the entire 2 gallons that I had in the bucket.

My goats did not have problems from birth.


4,595 posted on 06/15/2008 11:01:31 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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