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Bees, honey and wax
The hive, with its honey, its mead, its wax and the candle on the table.
4 documents · 1 chapter · 3 dishes · 20 rows
In the chapters
Documents 4
On the Menu
Fresh goat cheese with honey Honey cake with the replacement spices Mead
In the log 20
- 10 confirmed
- 4 amended
- 2 partly confirmed
- 4 unresolved
- 7 marked for safety
- F6 amended Safety Potassium soap: KOH lye handling (add flakes to water), 55 g KOH for 250 g oil, pH ~9, >2 % burns, dusk, never on bloom, kills bees wet, hard water scum
- A74 unresolved Safety Limewater: 1 kg slaked lime per 15 l boiled cooled hard water, lime into water; eggs under 24 to 36 h, unwashed, candled, points down, 5 to 8 cm cover, lard film, 8 to …
- B13 amended Safety Scald safety: 200 l at 62 °C from a 50 l copper lit at four; over-scald >62–63 °C cooks skin and sets bristles (only remedy skin the pig), under 58 no release, loosening …
- D10 amended Safety Honey must never be boiled; a boiled must poisons the yeast (HMF) and loses scent; dissolve at no hotter than 40 °C
- D12 amended Safety Bee stings: not in this draft, but the Bench sends readers to the bee document's colony numbers without a sting warning; consider adding
- T6 unresolved Safety Beeswax flash/ignition ~200 °C and above; render in water bath, never over a bare flame reaching a dry pot; never water on burning wax
- T8 confirmed Safety Burning tallow gives acrolein (chip-pan smell) and soot; tallow not for a shut room; beeswax for the table
- W36 confirmed Linseed oil about 53 % linolenic, cures 2 to 10 weeks by oxidation; walnut slower; olive and sunflower never dry and go rancid (butyric acid); spoon butter 4 : 1 oil to …
- O26 confirmed Whip-and-tongue cuts (3–4 cm, tongue one third down), cleft with two wedge scions, chip bud in late summer; tape and wax
- O28 confirmed Localised incompatibility (Honeycrisp/G41 snaps) and translocated (5 yr, leaf curl, reddening, dieback)
- A53 confirmed Berlin law as the library gives it: register with district vet office, holding number, animal disease fund, flock register kept 3 years; allotment colony rules forbid …
- D36 confirmed Nickel Jacob, furrier of Sprottau, 1568, first practical German bee book, workers raise a queen from an ordinary egg
- D37 confirmed Johann Grüwel, mayor of Kremmen, Brandenburgische Bewährte Bienen-Kunst 1719, "Streusandbüchse", straw hives behind screens, willow in April, heath in August
- D38 partly confirmed A Brandenburg colony without sugar or medicine makes about 20 kg a year, needs 18 to 20 kg for winter, keeper takes 10 to 14 kg and a kilogram of wax, loses one hive in …
- D39 partly confirmed Mead: 1 kg honey to 3 l water gives about 13 % ABV; 3.3 kg for 10 l; nutrient from skimmed froth, pollen or 100 g raisins; honey's own yeasts stall; pitch live sediment …
- D44 unresolved Korn: unhopped rye or wheat beer distilled twice; Prussian potato schnapps the 19th century's cheapest spirit, sold by the bucket from the estates east of the Elbe; …
- D51 unresolved 800 hobby bee-keepers in Berlin, more per head than any German city; linden honey
- T26 confirmed Burnish, do not sand; oil with raw linseed or spoon butter 4:1 oil:beeswax, three coats a week apart
- T36 confirmed Beeswax: mp 63–65 °C; render in water bath at 65–70 °C, strain, float and re-melt; dip at 70–75 °C; mould at 65–70 °C; shrinks ~10 % so hold back a tenth and top up; …
- T37 confirmed Burn rate ~8 g/h for a 2 cm beeswax taper; 1 kg wax ≈ 125 h; six hives × ~1 kg = ~750 h = ~2 h/evening/year