Garlic Honey
Medicinal garlic honey combines the health benefits of both garlic and honey, creating a potent natural remedy with a wide range of advantages. Here are some of the benefits:
Boosts Immunity: Garlic has strong antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties, which can help strengthen the immune system. Honey, particularly raw or unprocessed honey, has antioxidants and antimicrobial qualities that support immune function.
Fights Infections: Garlic contains allicin, a compound with antimicrobial properties that help fight infections, while honey also has natural antibacterial effects. This combination can be useful for treating colds, coughs, and sore throats.
Improves Heart Health: Garlic is known for its ability to lower cholesterol levels and reduce blood pressure. Honey can help reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, both of which contribute to heart disease. Together, they can be a powerful duo for cardiovascular health.
Supports Digestive Health: Garlic is a natural prebiotic, promoting the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, while honey can soothe the digestive system and promote gut health by reducing inflammation.
Promotes Detoxification: Garlic is known for its ability to support liver function, helping to detoxify the body. Honey provides antioxidants that protect the liver from oxidative damage.
Anti-Inflammatory: Both garlic and honey have anti-inflammatory properties. Regular consumption may help reduce chronic inflammation in the body, which is linked to various diseases, including arthritis and certain cancers.
Improves Respiratory Health: The combination can help with respiratory conditions like asthma or bronchitis, as both garlic and honey have properties that soothe the respiratory tract and reduce mucus.
Garlic Honey is a staple remedy in our home. We use it at the first hint of any illness brewing. We add the honey to herbal teas, eat a spoonful of the honey straight (which serves as a wonderful cough syrup), and we even eat the garlic cloves!
We source local, raw, unfiltered honey to use in our honey garlic recipe, as well as quality garlic, grown in Pennsylvania (Nate's father is a garlic farmer)!
If you'd like to learn more about our family's garlic farm, you can read about it here: https://livingsoilgarlicfarm.com/
Our honey garlic available for purchase has gone through the fermentation process for a minimum of 6 weeks, and is ready for consumption, although the longer you let is sit and continue to ferment, the better it gets. It becomes sweeter over time.
Storage:
It is recommended to store in a cool dark place, like a pantry. Since the inital process of fermentation has already been done, you don't need to open the jar often to release the gases, but we do recommend opening them once a week, or every other week. If you don't open the jars, they can leak, so we recommend putting something under the jar to catch any drips.
As you are using the honey, if there is more garlic to honey ratio, where the garlic is not emerged in honey, we recommend using up the garlic- do NOT add more honey. This will reset the fermentation process.
Simply, remove the garlic that isn't covered with honey. If it is too much garlic to eat at once, try cooking with it, it is delicious!
Over time, the honey may become darker and runny, this is normal.
Quantity Note:
Due to the timing of garlic season, we make large batches of garlic honey each fall. If we are sold out and you are interested in purchasing some garlic honey, please check back in Novemeber. Our garlic honey sells quickly and is very limited.