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“We put a bit of honeycomb on a Granny Smith apple slice, then sprinkled blue cheese on top. It was a delicious appetizer!”
Honeycomb from beekeepers in the United States: honey still sealed in the beeswax cells the bees built, in a 12 oz piece you can eat wax and all.
Cut into honeycomb and the honey starts moving before the knife is out. Every six-sided cell was built by the bees from wax they made themselves, filled, fanned down, and capped when the honey was ready. Nobody drained it, strained it, or poured it into anything. This is honey comb the way the hive left it.
Comb honey tastes like whatever the bees were working, so the flavor shifts from one harvest to the next. The texture is what people remember: soft wax giving way, then a rush of honey. Some people keep a block in the freezer and slice off a corner when they want something sweet. Some chew it like gum at their desk. Most of it gets eaten off a spoon.
Put it on the table whole and let someone else make the first cut.
How to use: Cut with a warm knife, straight down through the cells, over a plate to catch the honey. Set a block on a cheese board next to sharp cheddar or blue cheese, or lay a thin slice on a Granny Smith apple wedge. Spread a piece on hot buttered toast so the wax softens into the bread, or drop a cube into hot tea and let it melt. Keep what’s left covered at room temperature.
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Honeycomb is honey still inside the wax cells the bees built to hold it. The bees fill each cell, fan the honey down until it’s ready, and seal it with a thin wax cap. Jarred honey is what you get when that comb is opened, drained, and strained. Honeycomb skips that step. Same idea, still in the packaging the bees made, and the packaging is edible.
You can eat it. The cells are beeswax, and most people chew a piece like gum once the honey is gone, then swallow it or spit it out. Either way works. If chewing wax isn’t for you, scrape the cells with a spoon and eat just the honey, or drop a cube into hot tea and leave the wax behind in the mug.
Keep it covered in an airtight container at room temperature, away from sunlight. The fridge isn’t the place for it: cold speeds up crystallization and firms up the wax. Crystals in the cells are normal and a sign of real honey, not a flaw. Some people freeze a block and slice off pieces as they go, which works well too.
No. Every jarred honey we sell carries Star-K kosher certification, but our honeycomb does not. If certification matters for your household or a holiday table, any of our jarred varietals will work, and several make good gifts for Rosh Hashanah. The honeycomb is comb honey from U.S. beekeepers, sold without certification.
Honeycomb
4.5 x 4.5 x 1.5 inches
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You can also order and pick up from Honey House in Owings Mills, MD.
