Soothing Skin Clarifier (for minor acne)
Mix 1/2 cup warm water with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Using a cotton ball apply directly to blemishes. Maintain pressure with cotton ball for several minutes to soften blemishes. Using a cotton swab, dab Burleson’s Pure Honey on blemishes. Leave on 10 minutes; rinse and pat dry.
Raspberry-Honey-Dijon Barbequed Chicken Salad
8 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
Raspberry-Honey-Dijon Basting Sauce
1 cup raspberry jam
1/3 cup Burleson’s Pure Clover Honey
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons vinegar
Salad
1 bag Italian style lettuce
1 bag Spring field greens
1 cup sliced celery
1/2 cup toasted pecans or almonds
1/2 cup vinaigrette dressing
1/2 cup fresh raspberries, optional
Combine basting sauce ingredients, set aside. To braid chicken breast, cut each breast half lengthwise almost to the end in three equal strips. Braid strips; tuck ends under, securing with a wooden pick. Grill chicken breasts over hot coals for 5 minutes per side. Baste with raspberry sauce and continue grilling for another 5 minutes per side. Remove wooden pick before serving. In large bowl, combine salad ingredients. Divide onto 8 serving plates, top each with grilled chicken breast.
Serves 8
Nutrients Per Serving: 407 Calories, 25g Protein, 44g Carbohydrates, 3g Dietary Fiber, 15g Total Fat, 2g Saturated Fat, 18mg Vitamin C, 62mg Cholesterol.
Honey Cough Syrup
3 lemons, peeled, seeded and thinly sliced
2-inch piece of fresh ginger root, sliced
1 1/2 c. Burleson’s Pure Honey
Place lemon and ginger slices in 1 quart jar and cover with honey. Allow to rest for at least 1 hour. Use straight from the jar as a cough remedy or stir 2 - 3 tsp. into a c. of boiling water for a healing tea. Store in refrigerator.
Soothing Skin Clarifier (for minor acne)
Mix 1/2 cup warm water with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Using a cotton ball apply directly to blemishes. Maintain pressure with cotton ball for several minutes to soften blemishes. Using a cotton swab, dab Burleson’s Pure Honey on blemishes. Leave on 10 minutes; rinse and pat dry.
Sweet Relief for Migraines and Stress Headaches
Dissolve 1 tsp. Burleson’s Pure Honey in ½ glass of warm water and sip at the start of an attack. Repeat in 20 minutes, if necessary
About me
The Significance of Honey. Heal yourself Inside and Out.Honey - Miscellaneous Proverbs
Honey sometimes turns sour. (The end of good luck.)
The diligence of the hive produces the wealth of honey.
A drop of honey will not sweeten the ocean.
Don't have honey watched by a bear (make a goat the gardener).
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. (Abraham Lincoln.)
Honey young, wine old.
Every bee's honey is sweet.
Honey you swallow, gall you spit.
If you are too sweet, the bees will eat you.
Make honey out of yourself and the flies will devour you (Cervantes—Don Quixote. II. 43.)
Where there is honey, the bears come uninvited.
The bear dreams of honey.
To your own honey the devil puts one spoon; to strange honeys, two spoons.
Luxury has honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and sting in her tail.
Where bees are, there is honey.
Where a bee sucks honey, the spider sucks poison.
A still bee gathers no honey. Old bees yield no honey. Dead bee maketh no honey.
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Who is afraid of the sting never earns honey.
If you love honey, don't fear the sting.
Honey is not far from the sting.
Who collects honey and roses must bear the stings and the thorns.
Wit is honey lent, without the sting. (Tennyson.)
The following are some of the many foreign sayings and proverbs associated with honey:
LATIN
Where there is honey, there are bees. (Ubi mel, ibi apes) Plautus. Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. (Impia sub dulci melle venena latent.) (Ovid—Amorum I. 8.)
Where honey, there is gall. (Ubi mel, ibi fel.) This was, by the way, the favorite saying of Martin Luther.
Honey in mouth, sting in tail. (In ore mel, in caude aculeum habet.)
GERMAN
Who shares honey with a bear, gets the least of it.
Honey is not meant for an ass.
Honey is too good for the bear.
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
Bees have honey in their mouths, but stings in their tails.
Bees bring honey, honey brings bees.
FRENCH
A drop of honey catches more flies than a barrel of vinegar.
A little gall spoils a great deal of honey.
A honey tongue and a heart of gall. (Bouche de miel, coeur de fiel.)
Who deals with honey will sometimes be licking his fingers.
Who has no honey in his pot—let him have it in his mouth.
It is dearly bought honey, that is licked off a thorn. (Cher est le miel qu'on lèche surepines.)
SPANISH
Michael, Michael, you have no bees and yet you sell honey.
ITALIAN
Rub yourself with honey and the flies will eat you. (Fatevi miele, the le mosche vi mangieramo.)
RUSSIAN
If you make a honey barrel out of yourself, everybody wants to eat you.
ARABIAN
Honey in the hive of good fortune quickly sours. A lazy man is never fed on honey. Lick up the honey and ask no questions.
CHINESE
Bees make honey and men eat it.
When the nest is destroyed others get the honey.
PERSIAN
Honey is a wonderful substance but it does not help the dead. (Sadi.)
