Honey??

lagom

Hi everybody!

I'm just wondering - do indians know Honey? I'm thinking about to bring a glass as we've got many local honey-"producers"...

thanks!

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jyotirmoy

We had known honey for thousands of years. It is also used as religious offering.
Rather bring some cheese.

shashank.aggarwal

your honey or my honey ?

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Nick-H

I'd be happy if someone brought me a pot of English honey. The only honey I ever see here looks and tastes like Gales honey.

And that includes stuff with fancy labels about wild mountain forests and stuff, bought in the Nilgiris.

shashank.aggarwal

what do you feel about Dabur's honey, Nick ?

karuna

Nick, do you mean like thick, opaque honey, the pale kind?

My dad brought this wonderful stuff back from Sweden- hazelnut flavour honey. Glorious. Can't find it here.

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ananda2193

Used to have it on my fruit salad with curd all the time in Goa.

No money, no honey as my egytian friend used to say.

chAos

I think that tropical honey tastes, for lack of a better word, sharper than what we normally get in the US, the most common being clover honey. It makes sense as the taste changes depending on the flower(s) that the bees visit. I don't know what Gales honey is, Nick, but IMO Nilgiri honey is some of the sharpest around.

(My first reaction was to answer this thread, "Yes, Sweetie?" )

lagom

Ok then, if the weight of my backpack allows it, I will bring some swiss honey. Don't panic, I will carry with me loads of chocolate, too...

Thank you for the information

karuna

Gales is bog-standard UK honey.

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatal...ney_454g.jp g

They do the pale opaque version too:

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatal...Honey_454g.jpg

I just googled for hazelnut honey...starts at £5 (Rs400) a jar.

Hey, isn't Toblerone Swiss and chocolate and honey?
I've just made myself want a Toblerone now.

snonymous

Matheran wild honey is thick and dark, usually from the omnipresent local 'jamoon' trees. Its taste is distinct and is much valued for its medicinal properties. Certainly works for a sore throat.

This year there will be honey collection from the mass flowering of Karvy, the honey is expected to be available around March / April.

jyotirmoy

In Delhi we buy honey from the Khadi store and also the organic honey sold by Dabur. We also have guys who come with a bucket containing a beehive and he breaks a piece of the honey ladden hive for us to taste. We suck on it and decide whether it is good. Honey collected from Jasmine flower nursery is the best.

Brigit

We get people with huge jugs of the stuff that we buy by the liter, it can be hard to work out weather its funny or honey though. Funny being a clever mix is sweet thing masquerading as honey.

jyotirmoy

It may be jaggery

Nick-H

That's one of the ones I'm talking about. I don't like it much,

Sounds interesting!

Oh, honey-comb! How wonderful! I wonder if the honey is different? I love honeycomb; chewing the wax....

On the whole, and I'm no connoiseur, I'd say that British honey seems to be more tasty but less sweet --- in fact, not just British, I'm sure a lot of the stuff there is imported.

I used to hear it said that the cheaper stuff didn't have much to do with flowers but that the bees were fed sugar solution. I don't know if this is or was true.

Looks like I need to travel to experience different Indian honeys!

Of course, in this temperature, I think honey is always going to be runny. If I want it set/cystalised I'd just have to go back to that Brrrr-itish climate.

(But at least I'd be able to stock up on giant Toblerones from Heathrow on the way back)