Re: Honey

Posted by Shanon Lavender on October 26, 1999 at 10:08:30:

In Reply to: Re: Honey posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on October 26, 1999 at 01:58:37:

Honey is great for texture but if you splob in a little too much it
takes the paste longer to develope. Honey is a natural
preservative. It will double the shelf life of homemade bread. I
suspect this preservative effect slows dye release. I can get decent
stains out of five day old paste made with Castleart's,lemon juice,
tea and honey. What I can't get if I overdo the honey is a decent
stain before the stuff has aged at least 36-48 hours. Try your aging
paste and see how it does.

Shanon

: I wonder what happened! My stain was absolutely
normal....chocolate
: on the back of my hand, raspberry-coffee on the palm. I had 1/2 a
: teaspoon of local honey in 4 tbsp of paste. I'd put in coffee and
: clove sludge that was hot enough to make the paste a little grainy,
so
: I did the honey to compensate.....same color as every other stain
in
: the last harvest batch.

Follow-ups:

• Re: Honey Catherine Cartwright Jones 15:06:14 10/26/99 (3)
  • Re: Honey, etc. Natasha Papousek 15:41:25 10/26/99 (2)
    • Re: Honey, etc. Vickie 16:57:32 10/26/99 (1)
      • Help!! How do you dry honey??? Tisa 21:23:35 11/27/00 (0)