Honey (500 gm)

₹516 · Moms Tree, Kamola. Cash on delivery across India. शहद — 500 g of honey from Moms Tree in Kamola, Uttarakhand, a middle-sized jar for a family…

About this product

शहद — 500 g of honey from Moms Tree in Kamola, Uttarakhand, a middle-sized jar for a family kitchen.

Honey in a hill home is used a spoon at a time: on hot paratha or madua roti, stirred into curd, drizzled over sliced apple or pear, or added to tea or haldi milk after it has cooled slightly. It also sweetens a homemade buransh or lemon sharbat.

Moms Tree also lists 300 ml and 1 kg packs. Store the jar closed, at room temperature and away from sunlight, and always use a dry spoon. If it crystallises in winter, a warm water bath brings it back.

What you are buying

Before you order

Can I pay when it arrives?

Yes. Moms Tree takes cash on delivery, so nothing is paid up front and nothing is charged until the parcel is in your hands.

When will it reach me?

Arrives by Mon, 16 Nov for most addresses. It is packed and sent by Moms Tree in kamola — not from a warehouse — so it leaves the hills the same week you order it.

Who am I buying from?

Moms Tree, in kamola. Basket of Pahad does not hold stock or pack parcels — the shop does both. We take the payment and hold it until the order reaches you.

Can I send it back?

Food that has been opened cannot be returned. Anything that arrives damaged, leaking, short, or not what the page said is refunded in full — tell us within 48 hours.

About hill honey

What it tastes like

Raw hill honey tastes of the flowers the bees worked, so it changes from jar to jar: mustard honey is mild and sets quickly, while forest honey is darker and stronger, sometimes with a slight bitterness at the end. It is less uniformly sweet than a blended supermarket honey.

How it is used

In hill homes honey goes on roti and into warm milk or tea, and is stirred into curd or over fruit. A spoon of it is often offered with breakfast in the cold months. For tea or milk, let the drink cool a little before adding it so the flavour is not lost.

Keeping it

Keep the lid tight and the jar at room temperature, out of direct sun. Use a dry spoon, since water in the jar is what makes honey ferment. The fridge is not needed and only makes it set faster.

How long it keeps

Sealed raw honey usually keeps for a very long time, though its colour and texture change. The jar's label gives the shop's own best-before date.

Hill honey: common questions

Why has my honey crystallised?

Raw honey sets as its natural sugars crystallise, and it happens faster in cool weather and with some flowers, such as mustard. It is still good. Stand the closed jar in a bowl of warm, not boiling, water and stir until it runs again.

There is foam or a thin layer on top. What is it?

Usually tiny air bubbles and fine wax or pollen that rise in honey that has not been fine-filtered. It is harmless and can be stirred in or skimmed off.

Why is this jar darker than the last one?

Colour follows the flowers in bloom when the honey was gathered. A spring harvest from fruit blossom and a later one from forest flowers from the same hives can look and taste quite different.

Why is this jar runnier or thicker than the last?

Raw honey is not blended to a standard, so thickness varies with the flowers, the season and the weather when it was gathered. A runnier jar is not watered down, and a thick one is often just starting to set.

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