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Jezd, it was already fairly set after 12 hours and after about 48 hours you could turn a jar upside down and nothing came out. It has continued to crystalise further and is now probably as set as it is going to go - about a week.
If you want to cheat, forget grinding up coarse crystalised honey, instead add a couple of spoonfuls of powdered glucose, bought from a home brew supplier, to about 3 pounds of liquid honey. After 12 hours it will have set solid and can be warmed a bit and added to a 30 pound bucket. I am not sure if trading standards could detect the added glucose but it would be a big risk trying, but for your own consumption this trick works very well as the powdered glucose of very fine and produces excellent set honey.
If you want to cheat, forget grinding up coarse crystalised honey, instead add a couple of spoonfuls of powdered glucose, bought from a home brew supplier, to about 3 pounds of liquid honey. After 12 hours it will have set solid and can be warmed a bit and added to a 30 pound bucket. I am not sure if trading standards could detect the added glucose but it would be a big risk trying, but for your own consumption this trick works very well as the powdered glucose of very fine and produces excellent set honey.
