VIDEO: Making fir honey yourself
Making fir honey or forest honey yourself is not as difficult as you might think. This effort is worthwhile in any case, the fir honey tastes extremely good and you can also use it to refine Sauces and use food. Fir honey is not obtained from the nectar of the flowers, but from honeydew from insects. Fir honey also has a healing effect on the respiratory tract.
Make fir honey yourself
The first thing to do is to clean the pine tops before adding them to the pot to boil.
After cleaning, put all the pine tips in the saucepan and then fill the saucepan with two liters water on.
Bring the whole thing to a boil and let the pine tops cook in the bubbly water for about 20 to 30 minutes.
Then leave the pot with the pine tips to stand overnight.
The next day, the brew is poured off through a cloth.
Then the brew, which has been freed from the needles, is boiled up again.
Now enter the juice a lemon and an orange, as well as the brown and white sugar.
The whole thing is now cooked for about 3 hours until the desired consistency of the fir honey is reached. You can check the consistency by skimming off a teaspoon and placing it on a cold plate. After the fir honey has cooled on the plate, the current consistency is shown. If it is too runny, simply increase the cooking time.
After that, the honey filled into clean screw-top jars - done!
To make honey yourself, you would have to have a bee or a beekeeper ...
