It was one of the most curious discoveries I made while beekeeper. Occurred during a visit to a cousin, and an old man with no connection to beekeeping. I found it strange to see an ark of wood and large covered with clay tiles, as if it were a house. To my question answered that it was "an ark of honey" that someone had left an inheritance. Shingles served only to protect from the elements, because colored paper bags today is much better stored under a roof of truth. He told me that many years ago, "the ark of Honey", was used to transport the honeycombs during tanning. colored paper bags Due to its size, was placed upon a wagon and pulled by a donkey or a mule. On the morning of the tanning, the "mythical waning August", the cart with the ark was parked near the apiary to apiary wall perhaps, and the donkey was removed from the site. This passage: "and the donkey was removed from the site" was omitted by my cousin, and I wondered at the time or the details, so I was enthralled with the story, but I prefer to think it was so, it was not the animal being there for each hours to get stung. Almost certainly it would be like. There as honey was parched tenement houses, the combs were placed inside the huge ark, on a dais made of reeds and sat on a frieze of metal to a third of the height. Honey was so runny, separating wax dripping and gravity to the bottom of the ark, that background coated with a sheet of metal to the height colored paper bags of the frieze. Inside the Ark of honey in cross section. Put the last piece of honeycomb covered and "barreados" the tenements, took up the ark to the hill where was a continuation of the work. At this stage, the combs were fragmented colored paper bags into very small pieces and crushed freed for all honey. There were also those who placed them in a wicker basket with a weight on top to speed up the process. The ark had a tap where withdrew honey into large clay containers in which it was packed. At that time the final package was the responsibility of the customer, took her empty and returned with the precious colored paper bags nectar, and with any luck could still buy some honey water. I do not know if the "arks honey" were common fixtures in Alentejo and elsewhere around the country, just saw this and never knew of any other reference to similar objects. Two weeks ago I went to visit her, there she was old, but impressive in its size and the "sweet" memories that certainly still has. If anyone knows of the existence colored paper bags of other arcas designed for this function, it was interesting to inform the "montedomel" and send texts / photos etc ... and all we'd known.
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