comb-honey
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]comb-honey (usually uncountable, plural comb-honeys)
- Unprocessed honey that is still situated in its original beeswax cells.
- 1887, By Samuel Simmins, A Modern Bee-farm and Its Economic Management, page 42:
- They are considered to be an all-purposes bee, but their comb-honey is not quite so good as that of the native kind: they are not equal to the latter as comb-builders, and are often hard to persuade to enter the supers;
- 1915, Everett Franklin Phillips, Beekeeping, page 305:
- The recent increase in the sale of alfalfa comb-honey has caused many grocers to hesitate to buy any comb-honey, for fear previous unpleasant experiences may be repeated and leave them with unsalable granulated comb-honey on hand.
- 1922, Henry Grant Rowe, Starting Right with Bees, page 9:
- Comb-honey production requires some more skill, perhaps, in order to produce a good crop, and at the same time keep down swarming, than does extracted-honey production.
- 1926, Henry Perkins, “Questions and Answers”, in The Western Honey Bee[1], volume 14, number 1, page 27:
- All comb honeys will remain liquid longer when left on the hive than when stored.
- 1953, United States, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics (contributor), Honey, Some Ways to Use it, page 3:
- Chunk honey consists of pieces of comb honey in a container with liquid honey filled in around them.
- 1978, Diana Sammataro, Alphonse Avitabile, The Beekeeper's Handbook, page 118:
- If you are cutting comb honey from a frame (cut comb honey), use a warm, sharp, thin-bladed knife and cut the comb on some kind of screen to allow the honey to drip off.