Handmade process or method of making large honey pills

The method of making honey pills is divided into the steps of refining honey, combining medicines, making strips, forming pills, packaging and storage. The selection and refining of honey is the key to ensure the quality of honey pills. Generally creamy white and yellowish, sweet and fragrant flavor, no impurities, thick as congealed grease oily, containing less water is good. However, due to the source, origin, climate and other relations, its quality is not consistent, the honey produced in the north is generally less water, which is superior to the honey of thorns, jujube honey, while the honey produced in the south is generally more water. The purpose of refining honey is to remove impurities, destroy enzymes, kill microorganisms, evaporate water and enhance viscosity. The method is: a small amount of production can be used in copper pots or pans heated by direct fire, the fire refining; mass production can be used in steam sandwich pots, reduced pressure evaporation and concentration pot for refining, and finally filtered out the impurities. The degree of refining honey is divided into tender honey, refining honey, old honey three kinds.

Tender honey

The tender honey will be heated to boiling, the temperature reaches 110 to 114 degrees, the color becomes darker, there is viscosity, loss of water about 3%. Applicable by the formula containing more fat, starch, mucus, sugar and containing animal tissue.

Honey refining

The tender honey continue to heat, the temperature reaches 110 ~ 116 degrees, light red shiny foam, with a hand flick of the sticky, but no white silk, losing about 13% of the water, used for the formula containing fibrous, starch, sugar and part of the oil.

Old honey

Refined honey continued to heat to brown-red, red gloss, very sticky with the hand, can pull out the white silk, honey temperature of 118 to 122 degrees. Apply to the formula containing a lot of fiber, minerals.