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> From: Bob Darrell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: February 1, 2010 9:57:00 AM EST (CA)
> To: Bob Darrell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Creamed Honey
>
>
> On 17-Dec-09, at 12:29 PM, Bob Darrell wrote:
>>
>> Honey going into tubs and then freezer is liquid without obvious  
>> crystals.  It is solid(one characteristic of frozen) and visibly  
>> crystallized when removed from freezer then soft and creamy at  
>> room temperature.
>>>
>
> Hello all
>
> Further to the discussion on creamed honey in December.  I have  
> just brought  a tub of honey from the freezer and found it liquid  
> after thawing.  While this has happened before on a few occasions  
> over the last 30 years, the honey removed from the freezer has  
> almost always been creamed as stated above.  Lloyd had suggested  
> that the freezer was not the cause of the creaming, it was the  
> honey itself.  My wife doesn't like autumn honey so that the only  
> honey that I save, in the freezer, for ourselves is summer honey.   
> Basswood and sweet clover are in bloom in July (we also have one  
> catalpa tree nearby that blooms at the same time) and the resulting  
> honey is water white.  I do not mix honey from more than one  
> extraction so that there is no autumn honey in the tubs in the  
> freezer.   I checked the remaining 2 tubs in the freezer and found  
> them to be uncrystallized also.  Our summer crop was smaller than  
> normal in 2009 because of all the rain in July (sometimes heavy  
> downpours) which likely had an affect on the forage available.
>
> Bob Darrell
> Caledon Ontario
> Canada
> 44N80W


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