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To: teenyelliott

I think the magnesium fire starter you recommended will be marvelous. I can forget about storing all the matches now - they won’t last anyway.

It’s in my cart waiting for me to add more items so I can get free shipping! I LOVE free shipping. Especially now that CA has increased the sales tax. I’ll be buying everything I can online to avoid giving the libs here any of my money.

And I bought honey today - 3 large (64 oz) containers. Now the question is: what’s the best way to store it?


3,940 posted on 03/06/2009 6:56:26 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: CottonBall
Store honey at room temperature. Putting it in the fridge can speed up crystallization, and heating above 250 degrees can reduce the vitamin/mineral content. Other than that, in its natural state it never goes bad. Even if it does crystallize, you just warm it up a bit.

Often when Egyptian tombs are opened, they find pots of honey that were put there as food for the dead during the afterlife. The Romans, the Greeks, every ancient civilization has records of honey being used for health benefits, beauty benefits, medicinal benefits, even being used as a high value barter item.

Vitamins in honey are B6, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid and certain amino acids. Minerals found in honey include calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. It is fat free, sodium free, and acts as an antioxidant.

Honey is sweeter than sugar, so you can use less of it and reduce calorie intake.

Even though honey is nature's perfect food, NEVER give honey to infants.

3,948 posted on 03/06/2009 8:05:31 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: CottonBall

>>>And I bought honey today - 3 large (64 oz) containers. Now the question is: what’s the best way to store it?<<<

OK, I’m sorry but just before I turn into a pumpkin here (almost midnight)... I get a bit silly...

Ummmmm put them on the shelf in the pantry...

Seriously, nothing special is needed to store honey.

It will keep almost forever... no refrigeration (actually is best if you don’t - it crystalizes faster if you do.)

Honey does not go bad if it is crystalized! Just take the top off the jar and place it in a pan of hot water... It will reconstitute. Easy as that!


3,955 posted on 03/06/2009 8:51:58 PM PST by DelaWhere ("Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe)
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