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"How to cook syrup from scraps left over from the frame?»
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Different compositions based on sugar or honey are used to feed bees. This is a sugar syrup of different consistency with the addition of citric acid, mint, bitter pepper, soy flour and other completely unexpected ingredients. You can make invert syrup, which is cooked with the addition of invertase. This food is more balanced and nutritious, especially for winter feeding.
It is best to make honey from honey - diluted in boiled water, but chilled water honey (you can use crystallized). Sieves - nutritious food, which contains all the necessary components. And this is very easy to explain - because honey in this preparation of fertilizer is not subject to heat treatment.
Now about the preparation of syrup "from scraps, remaining from the framework "
If you mean zabrus, it is not entirely clear, why use it for such purposes. On our site you can find a lot of useful information about it, how to use this bee product. But if you definitely decide to make a syrup from this "raw", then be prepared for that, that it will really be syrup, not a sieve. After all, you can't do without heat treatment here. You need to remove the wax, which is present in this product. And wax requires a fairly high temperature, to go from solid to liquid.
The cooking technology will be something like this:
- Fill the bar with water in the amount you need. Preferably, so that the liquid is approximately on the surface 4-5 div.
- Put the container on the fire and heat slowly, stirring, until then, until the wax is in a liquid state on the surface of the water.
- Immediately remove the pan from the heat and place in a cool place, so that the wax hardens.
- Remove the wax "film" and strain the liquid through a fine sieve. Your syrup is ready.
Allergy to honey, you can propolis
Experienced beekeepers often give the remains of the bite to bees in the form of food. But you don't have to make syrup from it. Simply spread it in a thin layer in the feeder and let the workers choose their own honey. And then melt the wax and use as intended.
And one last piece of advice. This honey syrup with small additions is suitable for making delicious desserts, spicy sauces for meat or fish, to marinate the same meat before roasting or grilling. But this is the story of another novel. ".