Some Lovely Honey Recipes
This wonderful, versatile, golden liquid is so versatile I cannot comprehend anyone not having a jar or two in their cupboards. Why not send in your favourite recipe, you can do this at the bottom of this page). Of course there are many types of honey for you to experience both flavour and texture wise and to experiment with in your honey recipes which you will have a lot of fun with and benefit from eating your honey along the way. There are just a few simple guidelines to follow when cooking with honey such as adjusting the measurements, but don’t worry about that because I will list them for you further down the page. It isn’t just baking with honey that we can benefit from, there are many ways of benefiting from honey nutrition in our food like using it as a marinade, substituting its use in baking instead of using table sugar and chemical based artificial sweeteners which are actually poisons. Unfortunately it’s almost as if we have been brainwashed over the years to think that these are the only way we can sweeten and enhance our food. What tosh! Honey is far sweeter than sugar or substitutes which is also beneficial when trying to lose or maintain our weight. Cooking with honey is not a new fad, oh no, it has been around for eons of years but I’m afraid I have no idea what the first honey recipes were. Although the first ever alcholic drink appears to be Mead which is a honey wine! Perhaps someone dropped a piece of food into some honey by accident, loved the new discovery and the first honey recipe was born………what a lovely thought. I expect after this event when people started cooking with honey they became even more adventurous, I know I certainly did when I embarked on what at the time felt like a one woman crusade to improve the health and medical needs of my children in a natural way. I experimented in my honey recipes with different varieties of both raw and organic honey and discovered that light colored runny honey is best for marinades, stir fry’s, dipping sauces and drizzling over food. Darker (but not exclusively) and thicker honeys I think are best for baking with honey. The least it is heated the best nutritional value is kept.Baking with Honey is associated with Cakes and Desserts and your cakes will stay moister for far longer. Is your mouth watering yet? I know mine is because I know what comes next! Cooking with Honey is more associated with BBQs, Basting Meats and making Delicious Most Vegetarians also love the benefits of eating honey so I will of course include some honey recipes for you. As I discover more good honey recipes I will list them for you but please send any in and in the meanwhile eat a couple of spoonfuls a day I have discovered an excellent website for vegetarians, it is possible for you to include honey in many of the excellent recipes they offer you. The link is below and I hope you enjoy it. But that’s not all and I will let you into my secret honey recipes throughout the next few pages. Of course if you have some of your own to share with all of us please contact me and I will be happy to publish them for you in my Honey Magazine. And you can even win a prize! When baking with honey you will need to adjust the measurements: 8oz of honey = 1 cup of sugar For every 60mls of liquid replace with honey = 4 tablespoons Reduce the oven temperature accordingly. For e.g if you would normally bake a cake at Gas mark 4/180 Centigrade/350 Farenheight lower them to Gas mark 3/170 Centigrade/325 Farenheight. Did you see the picture at the top of the page? That is a simply delicious Honey Baked Ham. I bet your mouth is watering now! Here is My Twist on A
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