Honey

Honey was the first sweetener predating sugar by hundreds of years. But as well as its noted culinary uses honey has been a long valued ingredient in folk remedies beauty treatments and household chores. This new book explores honeys unique medicinal properties - it is effective for healing wounds and burns for soothing pain for digestion and as an antiseptic and anti-ulcer agent an anti-fungal treatment and a sleep-inducing aid. Honey is also a wonderfully nutritious and scented ingredient in beauty preparations many of which you can make at home in the form of soaps scrubs facepacks and moisturizing creams. And last but not least it is of course a hugely popular culinary ingredient and preservative adding distinctive flavor as well as sweetness to cakes pastries cookies jams and chutneys
marinades and dressings and sweet and savory sauces. This irresistible volume explores all the many properties and uses of honey in the home. Combining history a guide to the different types recipes household uses medicinal preparations and beauty treatments it demonstrates the amazing versatility of honey. Beautifully illustrated with 200 color photographs and artworks this is a delightful source book of ideas you will turn to time and again.