A friend of mine recently asked me if honey was good or bad for allergies. While I believe that research is still being done on this subject, the studies that have been done show that eating honey from the area where you live may help with allergies. Honey is made from pollens gathered by the local bees, so that makes sense.
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Honey for use with allergies
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Fire Mountain Farm Honey Granola and Bars
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009Hi again!
Fire Mountain Farm honey is a wonderful addition to granola and granola bars. I thought I would share my recipe with all of you.
First make the granola.
Combine 1/2 cup Fire Mountain Farm honey with 1/4 cup of cannola oil. Set aside. In a large bowl combine 2 cups old fashioned oat meal, 1/3 cup each of wheat bran, oat bran and wheat germ. Add 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, 1/2 cup raw sesame seeds, and 1 cup unsweetened coconut. Stir then add honey and oil and thoroughly mix. Spread in a 13″ x 9″ pan and bake in a 300 degree F oven for approximately 1 hour or until golden brown. Stir every 15 minutes while baking to insure even browning. When done, add 1/4 cup chopped dried mango, 1/4 cup dried currants and 1/2 cup golden raisins. Mix into warm, browned grains and allow to cool. Mixture may need to be broken up when cool. This granola is delicious by itself, with milk or cream for breakfast or made into granola bars as follows.
To make granola bars measure 4 cups of home made granola into a large bowl. In a 4 cup measuring cup place 2/3 cup of Fire Mountain Farm honey. Bring to a boil in the microwave (1-3 minutes on high.) Measure 3/4 cup of Fire Mountain Farm macadamia nut butter (or substitute peanut butter) and stir into hot honey. You may also substitute Fire Mountain Farm macamania ifor the honey and macadamia nut butter and heat it in the microwave until very spreadable. Mix into the granola and spread it evenly in a 9″ x 13″ pan lined with waxed paper. When cool and set cut into bar size shapes. Makes 36 bars. May be stored for some time in a tightly closed container.
I hope you enjoy these recipes. More to come…
Gail Barry
Fire Mountain Farm Honey Oatmeal Bread Recipe and Honey Tasting
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Hi Fire Mountain Farm visitors,
Welcome to the first blog post! We plan to use the blog to post updates on new developments at Fire Mountain Farm, post new recipes or new ideas for eating and cooking with our products, and maybe even a new picture or two occasionally. We’d also love to hear how you are using Fire Mountain Farm products.
At Fire Mountain Farm we have been busy! Just recently Chips and I created a new room at Fire Mountain Farm that makes a good place for extracting our delicious Fire Mountain Farm honey and doing other processing activities. We are excited to begin using this room and hope that it will allow us to make and ship more of our products. When we bought Fire Mountain Farm we had 4 bee hives and now we have seventeen thanks to our very able bee keeper, Pawnee Pillsbury. It was no longer practical to extract honey with our four frame hand powered extractor. Thus, Fire Mountain Farm’s new 9 frame honey extractor will be used in it’s new home.
I also came up with a new bread recipe, Fire Mountain Farm Honey Oatmeal Bread, using Fire Mountain Farm honey. To make Fire Mountain Farm Honey Oatmeal Bread for one large loaf, or two small, combine two large tablespoons of Fire Mountain Farm honey with 1 1/2 cups of warm water and 1 tablespoon dry yeast. Stir in 1/4 cup vital wheat gluten, 1 cup quick oats and 1 cup all purpose flour. Beat at least 100 times. Allow to sit until doubled in bulk. Then add 2 teaspoons salt (or less if desired,) 1/4 cup cannola oil and enough whole wheat flour to make a stiff dough suitable for kneading. Knead until smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl, cover and allow to double in bulk. Punch down and allow to rise again. Roll out on a floured surface, form into one large or two small loaves, place in pans and allow to rise until nearly double. Then bake in a 350 degree F oven for approximately 35 minutes or until slightly browned and it sounds hollow when you thump on it. Remove and cool on a wire rack or serve warm with butter and more Fire Mountain Farm honey. It is hard not to eat several slices at once. It makes good sandwiches too.
Honey Tasting–Try this at home!
Fire Mountain Farm honey was recently taste tested in San Francisco where we had a blind honey tasting with some friends. Four of the honeys were different batches of Fire Mountain Farm honey. Two others were also Hawaiian honeys but not from Fire Mountain Farm and one was orange blossom honey from California. I think all tasters were amazed at how different each honey tasted when compared side by side. I am proud to report that our honeys were placed mostly in the first and second spots. After the tasting, done mostly with plain bread or plain spoons, we also enjoyed the honeys paired with a variety of cheeses including brie and blue cheese. If you try this at home report back your findings!
–Gail and Chips