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Oct 25th, 2009 at 9:25pm

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Decided to split one of mynative bee hives last week & got 1 litre of sugar bag (native bee honey) in the process.
Found the following recipe & cooked it in the Bedourie oven yesterday.
Macadamia and sugarbag pie
You can’t get more Aussie than this exquisite treat that uses nuts native to Australian rainforests and sugarbag (honey from Australian native bees).
Pastry
INGREDIENTS:
11/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons shortening
3 tablespoons water
Filling
˝ cup brown sugar
˝ cup sugarbag (keep a little to drizzle over when serving)
50 g butter (melted and cooled)
3 eggs
1 cup macadamia nuts
1 dessertspoon of lemon juice (or grated rind of one orange)

Method
Add flour and baking powder into a bowl.
Crop butter into small pieces and rub into flour with the fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.
Add 4 tablespoons of water and mix into dough.
Knead dough until it is smooth adding a little more water if necessary.
Wrap in plastic film and chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 200°C.
Roll out pastry between two sheets of plastic film to fit into a pie dish (approximately 250 mm diameter round or 220 by 220 square).
Line dish with pastry. Bake pastry for 15 minutes.
If the the macadamias are raw, toast them now in the oven for about 5 minutes or until golden.
Make the filling by beating together all the ingredients.
Remove pastry from oven.
Reduce oven temperature to 160°C.
Pour filling onto pre-baked pastry in the dish. Bake for about 40 minutes or until the mixture is just firm.
Serve warm or cold with cream or ice-cream and extra sugarbag drizzled on top.
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Reply #1 - Oct 25th, 2009 at 9:30pm

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All I can say is ... yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Reply #2 - Oct 26th, 2009 at 7:03am

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That looks to be spot on. A complete Aussie dish.
The native bees do you keep them in a hive like other bees?
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Reply #3 - Oct 26th, 2009 at 8:11am

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Check out this site. http://www.sugarbag.net/. I was fortunate to attend a workshop conducted by Tim Heard & learnt heaps. I had 4 hives at the start of the year & by splitting some I now have 7. Three have honey boxes on top so I can harvest the honey easily & enjoy a lot more tarts.
Some of my hives & honey
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Reply #4 - Oct 26th, 2009 at 10:20am

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Thanks Keith,
I will be looking into geting a hive.
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Reply #5 - Oct 26th, 2009 at 12:32pm

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Nothing beats the taste of natural honey.   The nut tart would be great also.  Will put it on the ever growing list.

If your interested here is a photo of quite a few nut pies made recently overseas, I bet they didnt have great honey but look to have home made pastry, something a lot of us have problems mastering.
http://camp-cook.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2267


Bees make my blood creep, my brother got a hive (centuries ago) and it turned out (from stings and passing out) both he and my mother were the super alergic types and could have dropped dead from a single sting, they both had multiple injections that carried no guarantee of immunity.  My No. 2 daughter is also very alergic to stings and products from bees.  Funny enough her children love honey.
 

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Reply #6 - Oct 26th, 2009 at 3:31pm

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These bees are the little black dots on the boxes in the photos. They don't sting, so no worries about allergic reactions, but they can bite & I do wear protective gear when splitting hives. Picture this, no protective gear only stubbies, loose fitting short sleeve cotton shirt, cap & glasses. These little buggers will crawl anywhere, yes anywhere, up stubbies, shirt sleeves & behind glasses & bite while your hands are sticky with honey & can't catch them. Only one thing for it & that's into the shower, strip off & wash them down the plughole.  Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin I can see the funny side now & that's why I wear protective gear
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