Cooking With Honey
Has Come a Long Way!

Some people find the prospect of using honey when cooking a little daunting; please allow me to help you by giving you some very helpful tips.

Tip # 1 is it is definitely more of a healthy option than refined table sugar or Sugar Substitutes that offer very little if anything of nutritional value.

Tip # 2 It can burn very easily if you are warming it so be gentle and try not to heat it on its own in a saucepan. Place it in a cup and stand in simmering water to warm it without burning.

Tip # 3 If you have a fan assisted oven reduce the cooking time, usually around 10% is adequate.

Tip # 4 When cooking with honey it is helpful to have an easy conversion chart. Print these out to keep in a handy place; these are great tips for cooking with honey.

There are hundreds of Honey Recipes to experiment with but it’s important to choose the right kind of honey.

Many of us have been fooled into buying what we think is honey and just don’t realize that the jar we’ve bought is actually a blend of a little honey, whipped or spun sugar and great horror, Corn Syrup which is just about the worst thing in the world we should be eating.

Try to buy your own local honey produced by a beekeeper in your area; the taste and quality are far superior to anything from the supermarket.

Failing that buy from a good organic food store to ensure you really are buying the real thing.

Using your honey in the kitchen is fun, you will be amazed as you get used to it, I have some Honey Recipes to get you started all of which we as a family have made together and enjoyed.

These are the types of honey in cooking recipes we are more used to eating in this day and age and just like us they can be easily adapted with your own little twist.

Many of my wonderful readers have also sent me some of theirs; one in particular won a very coveted award in a competition. When we read it we could not wait to try it for ourselves. It really is truly lovely.

The Greek philosopher Porphyry thought honey too good for mere mortals as he described it as "the food of the Gods"For a very long time in the ancient world it was considered to be more valued than anything else when it came to cooking.

This was probably due to its ability to sweeten almost anything and add flavor to our food and help to keep honey cakes moister for far longer.

In ancient Egyptian tombs there are pictures of cooks and chefs making what was apparently a favorite in their time, fried cakes made from date flour and honey!

In Roman times they used cooking with honey for making dormouse taste nice! This little delicacy came from the "first cookbook" written by Apicius.

I'll give him his due; he experimented with his honey cooking adding it to everything he could possibly think of in the hope of producing something even more delectable than his previous honey recipe. (I still can't get over the dormouse!)

In modern days we have thankfully moved on and most people enjoy cooking with honey in ways we consider to be civilized.

German and Austrian cooks used to cook peas with their honey, they believed peas were evil but honey had the power to heal them and make them edible!

Honey cakes are one of the oldest recipes of all time, usually they just mixed honey and flour together, baked it into a brick and ate it.

Cooking cakes with honey is nothing like these examples now thank goodness!

I love the fact that vegetarians can enjoy honey in recipes, I know they do because I asked a vegetarian who confirmed they most certainly do.

Over at my honey recipes page he submitted a recipe using honey in cooking for vegetarians, we can enjoy it to.