We can clearly see that you love your bees. I no longer feed the bees with dry sugar in the winter because it doesn't always help. I make honey sugar candy and put it on top of the bee frames in late fall. and then once a month I check it in any weather. If there is not enough candy left, I add another cake. This is how I prepare it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r5ZS1Z-483k.html
I just found this comment! Sorry I'm slow. Thank you for the advice. This Winter's bees seem to be doing well, but I'll make some of your recipe anyway. A little extra food never hurts!
Sad to say, we lost our bees this Summer. I'm not sure what happened. They were doing great, lots of honey, plenty of brood.....then they all just died. I don't know if they got some strange disease, chemical bug spray, or what. The neighboring bee keeper lost several of his the same way, while others were fine. I think we will get more, but might wait a year or so to see if something weird is going on.
Just warm enough to dry it. You don't want to cook or melt the sugar. Use as little water as possible. We had a gas stove and the pilot light was warm enough that we just set it on top of the stove. A food dehydrator would be perfect.
@@MuskratOutdoors Thanks a lot! I will definitely try this. Here in Serbia, they make sugar cakes on a delicate way, they put just anything, like garlic, cayenne pepper, and many different ingredients. So I find this far more practical and simpler. :-)
