Creamed Honey

[Anthony Ritenour]

I have never made any but would like to try this spring. I was wanting to try a batch with orange and a batch with blueberries. Do the fruits need to be dried before blending to prevent fermentation? If not, I would assume you have to keep it in the refrigerator which will then make it awfully hard. Please advise. I am new at this.

[tbb39]

yes please someone give a recipe that sounds good and i will keep tabs on this thread...

[Jethro]

You need to use dried fruit. I use freeze dried fruit powder, it lets you have a nice creamy texture. If you have your own fruit you should be able to dry it then grind it to a powder as fine as flour. On most flavors I use 1# fruit to 60# honey and 5-10% starter seed. I get most of my fruit from www.heartlandhoney.com.

Jethro

[GaSteve]

Do a search in the "Everything Honey" forum. There are a lot of discussions about creamed honey there.

[beekeeper_sd]

I make several different fruit flavored creamed honeys. Thought I would add dried fruit to make them better. Used blackberry, strawberry and raspberry. I don't think the chunks of dried fruit made the creamed honey any better than just flavoring it and they were sure harder to work with that way. I just use lorann flavor oils for the fruit flavored honey and I can't keep enough of it on hand.

[Chef Isaac]

I prefer using dried natural powders versus the artifcal oils.

[Anthony Ritenour]

thanks!

[beekeeper_sd]

I prefer using dried natural powders versus the artifcal oils.

I think I will try the powders. I also don't like the idea of using the flavored oils but started making flavored honey and can't stop because of customer requests. Where do you get your powders from?

[Bobb]

I think I will try the powders. I also don't like the idea of using the flavored oils but started making flavored honey and can't stop because of customer requests. Where do you get your powders from?

You can try here:http://heartlandhoney.com/freezedriedpowderedfruit.aspx