₹539 · UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES, New Delhi. Cash on delivery across India. कच्चा शहद — raw honey in a 500 g pack, which the shop describes as unprocessed…
कच्चा शहद — raw honey in a 500 g pack, which the shop describes as unprocessed, sold by Uttraksh Enterprises in New Delhi.
Raw honey is only strained after it leaves the comb, not heated or blended, so each batch can differ a little in colour and taste. Use it the way hill homes do: a spoon on hot roti or in curd, over fruit, or stirred into tea and warm milk once they are cool enough to sip.
Raw honey often crystallises in winter; that is normal, and a warm water bath loosens it. Store it closed, at ordinary room temperature, somewhere out of the sun.
Yes. UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES takes cash on delivery, so nothing is paid up front and nothing is charged until the parcel is in your hands.
Arrives by Mon, 16 Nov for most addresses. It is packed and sent by UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES in New Delhi — not from a warehouse — so it leaves the hills the same week you order it.
UTTRAKSH ENTERPRISES, in New Delhi. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.