Canadian Living Magazine Recommends Wendell Estate Honey

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We were pleasantly surprised to see the Christmas 2018 edition of Canadian Living recommending Wendell Estate Honey as a Christmas gift.

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Fresh from the Prairies, this raw white honey is luxuriously smooth and creamy. It's best enjoyed by the spoonful or spread on sourdough toast.

Wendell Estate Honey Creamed Raw Prairie Honey, $29, wendellestate.ca.

250g Wendell Estate gourmet raw honey from the Canadian prairies! Silky-smooth white honey in an elegant Italian glass jar. A perfect gift. Kosher. Halal. Unheated. Unfiltered. Unprocessed. A great introduction to gourmet raw honey.

Important storage instructions for your raw soft-set honey

Wendell Estate Honey is a completely raw, unprocessed, living food. Like any fresh food, raw honey requires appropriate storage to maintain its best quality for as long as possible.

We recommend that you keep an amount of honey that you will use within 2-3 months at room temperature so that the honey is soft and spreadable. Honey that you expect to keep for more than 2-3 ...
... months should be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator (good), or freezer (best).

Creamed Raw Honey Storage Instructions

We recommend that you keep an amount of honey that you will use within 2-3 months at room temperature so that the honey is soft and spreadable. Honey that you expect to keep for more than 2-3 months should be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator (good), or freezer (best).

We package our honey fresh on our farm, and then allow the honey to naturally crystallize in the jar over several weeks, just as it would in a Canadian prairie beehive. After it sets up, the honey is transferred to frozen storage where it will maintain its freshness indefinitely. When Wendell Estate Honey leaves our storage facility it is as fresh as the day it was harvested.

Raw honey does not have a “best before” date. How long the honey stays fresh is entirely dependent on storage conditions. Our soft-set raw honey will remain delicious at room temperature (20-25°C / 68 – 77°F) for a few months. However, the honey will very slowly darken over time (3 months or more) at room temperature. The colour change is a very sensitive indicator of the freshness of the honey: with slight darkening, the flavor changes will be virtually unnoticeable; with significant darkening you may start to notice subtle aroma and flavor changes. Raw honey often contains natural yeasts that can cause honey to ferment with continued exposure to warmth and humidity. The rate that this happens depends on temperature and humidity and varies from as rapidly as several weeks at 30°C (86°F) to a few months for an open jar at temperatures of 20-25°C (68 – 77°F) to many months to years in the refrigerator (~2°C – 5°C / 35 – 41°F) to indefinitely for a sealed jar in a freezer (