When my married man start an elimination diet to help finagle a rather severe autoimmune disorderliness many years ago , one of the first food to go was sugar . It was a hard road ; not only did he have a jolly significant sweet tooth , but totally egest cane sugar want reading labels of packaged food extensively ( and in the end cave in it up ) . Sugar has habit-forming timber , so it was hard for us to quit for reasons of solace , too . A save grace was honey . In fact , this change in dieting and lifestyle change finally led us to start keeping honeybee .
When we settled in North Carolina , I started putting up fresh , local foods . Outside the city , we had accession to farmers grow a cornucopia of fresh , constitutive produce . I started simply , with pickled vegetables in a piddle bath canner . But the fruits of the North Carolina summer were begging to be put up and enjoy during winter months , so I started preserving Bronx cheer , blackberries , peaches and apples .
I quickly learned that preserve fruits ( either whole , or as jams and jellies ) required plenteous amounts of sugar — nearly as much gelt as water , in some recipes . While the results were luscious ( addictively so ) , we could only give them as gifts and did n’t get to enjoy them ourselves . I look to my local beekeepers for alternatives .
My beekeeping mentor handed me a Good Book calledPutting it Up With Honey , and I have n’t put it down since . Preserving and canning recipes that admit love are scarce on the internet , so this leger is my summer put up bible . I do n’t annoy with any other formula for fruit , spreads , fix and preserve . The canned whole peaches are peculiarly divine during peach time of year here , and my husband imbibe the liquid when he finishes a jolt .
I ’d extremely recommend that any apiculturist , honey enthusiast or item-by-item with a special diet who is concerned in canning ( strike away from cane sugar ) to research alternative with honey . Here are a few things you need to know before you dive in .
Learning to can with honey has let us enjoy local produce at its fresh , preserve produce closer to home , and support our local saving and Farmer . It gives us a fortune to fill our larder with scrumptious , organic foods that we ’ve seen from commencement to finish . It yield us an chance to see and practice a lose tradition , one that gives our children a fortune to see where their intellectual nourishment get from and all the step needed to process it — from picking the peaches and harvesting the love to enjoying those preserve on wintertime treats .
