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To: goat granny
My grandmother use to take her honey comb and all. Just bite off a piece. That was back in the 40-50s when she lived with us part time...You could buy honey comb by the piece in the grocery store...She was born in the 1800’s...lived to be 90 and could gum a piece of steak without teeth...Never saw her wear her dentures...we lived a simple life....:O)

You can probably still buy honey comb; I do recall seeing it from time to time. It's far too sweet for me, although I could chew on it just fine when I was a child. What I was referring to, anyway, was the color and appearance of the honey in the pictures at that link. It didn't look like any honey I ever remember seeing, that came straight from the hive. Not only did my stepfather's business partner keep bees, my mother even tried it for a while. Until I stepped into a swarm hidden in tall grass (ouch)...

I have made great orange cookies that call for grated orange peel, usually called zest on the cooking shows...same for great lemon cookies..

I believe the zest is just the colored part on the surface. I use the zest in cooking, sometimes, too. Lemon or orange zest gives a nice flavor to homemade cranberry sauce.

Orange "juice" also contains whatever is pressed out from the white stuff and the seeds. And I can't stand the taste of it... it bears as much resemblance to oranges as apple juice/cider does to apples, or strawberry jam/ice cream does to strawberries.

142 posted on 12/18/2011 9:57:11 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom

agree the white part of the orange is not too good to eat. I peel my oranges with a spoon and pull off the white covering between the rind and the flesh...if you are lucky when you peel the orange, that crap gets removed with the rind /sp.......GG


143 posted on 12/18/2011 10:04:14 AM PST by goat granny
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To: exDemMom

Years ago when my kids were young, we camped a lot and one campsite was in an orange grove in Florida. We could go down to the entrance every morning and they would press you out fresh juice...was the best tasting juice I ever had...That goes back about 40 years ago...My kids are all in their 40’s & 50’s now....GG


151 posted on 12/18/2011 11:38:36 AM PST by goat granny
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