The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-02-23
HONEY AS FOOD.
There Are Said TO BE Health @nd Long
Life I'm Its Use.


A pound of honey will go as far
as a pound of butter, and II Dotn ar
ticles be of the best quality the hon.
ey will cost the less OF the TWO:
Often a prime article OF extracted
honey, equal to COMB money In eV-
ery respect except appearance, can
be obtained for half the price OF but
ter or less Butter is in its best
only when il is fresh, while hon
ey, properly kept, remains indefi-
nitely gooi-no need TO hurry II out
of the way for fear it may become
rancid.
Sugar is much used in hot drinks,
as in coffee and tea The substitu-
ton of a mild favored honey in such
use may be very profitable thing
for the health. Indeed it would be
better for the health if she only hot
drinks were what is called in Ger
many honey tea-a cup OF hot wa
ter with one or two tablespoonfuls
of extracted honey. The attainment
of great age has in some cases been
attributed largely to the lifelong use
of honey tea
Many people think honey is hon.
ey, ali just allie, but this is great
mistake. Hong may be of good
heavy body. what beekeepers call
"well ripenedaand weighing some
times ~ pound to the gallon, or it
may be quite bin. 1t may also be
granulated or candied, more solid
than lard. Itay be almost as col
orless as water and it may be as
black as the dskest molasses. The
flavor of hongvaries according to
the flower fromwhich it is obtained.
1t would be impssible to describe in
words the flaIOrs of the different
honeys. The different fiavors in
honey are as distinct az the odors in
flowers. AmOg the lighter colored
honeys are white clover, linden Cor
basswood), sage sweet clover, alfal-
fla, willow herhetc., and among the
darker are found heartsease, mag
nolia Cor popE), horsemint, buck
wheat, etc.
Tastes differs to honey as in all
other things. White clover is SO
generally preisred to buckwheat,
with its very DIX color and strong
ly marked fisDr, that buckwheat
honey always niles lower in price
than white ckFer, yet there are
some who prets buckwheat to any
other honey Smewhat fortunate
ly, one general prefers the honey
to which he Is Dst accustomed. A
Californian thinks nothing equals
white sage, whe a Pennsylvania
thinks White clUer far ahead.
In these daysf prevailing adul-
teratlon, whens often things are
not what theyeem, it is a COM
fort to know tat when one buys
comb honey b may know with
out question q is getting the
genuine article The silly stories
seen from tin to time in the
papers about arficial combs being
filled with gluce and deity sealed
over with hotron have not the
slightest foundion in fact. For
years there has5een standing Of
fer by one who's financial RESPONSE
bility is unqueeoned of 1000 for
a single pound Ccomb honey made
without the inrvention of bees.
The offer remain untaken and will
probably remailso, for the highest
art of man can aver compass such
delicate workmtship as the skill of
the bee accomplhes.
With extrdcte honey the case is
different. Whergou see in the gro
Gerry tumbler liquid honey with
a small piece of ,omb honey in the
center, you maOe pretty sure the
liquid honey islt honey at all, but
pure glucose. If OF familiar enough
with honey to eject it by taste,
your only safe ,urse is to buy of
the producer dirt or of some one
who knows az tos source and upon
whose honesty yu can rely.
Aside from its le in an unchanged
state as direct compartment of
bread or biscuiihoney is used by
bakers in manufacturing their choic-
est waters. An ivantage of using
honey for anythg in the line of
cake Is in its keeng qualities. Even
II the cake shoultbecome dry, close
1t up in bread ca for a time, and
It's freshness willreturn.-Bee Cul-
ture.