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Show Me the Honey: How to Cook with that Gooey Goodness

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So, you’ve read about all the benefits of raw honey [2] for your stockpile.  You’ve gone out and purchased a vat of honey that would make Winnie the Pooh eager to lay siege to your home. But what on earth are you going to do with all that sweet, golden goodness? Honey can be used in place of sugar in many recipes. It is ever-so-slightly sweeter than sugar, and adds moisture.

When substituting honey in place of sugar:

    1. Use an equal amount of honey for sugar up to the amount of 1 cup.  If the recipe requires more than one cup of sweetener, use 3/4 cup of honey to replace each cup of sugar.
    2. In recipes that require an entire cup of honey or more, reduce the other liquids in the recipe by a total of 1/4 cup per cup of honey.
    3. Reduce the temperature of the oven by 25 degrees if you are replacing sugar with honey.
    4. Add 1/4 tsp of baking soda per cup of honey.

Darker honeys have a bold flavor and light honeys have a milder taste. Dark honey is a good replacement for brown sugar and light honey is a good equivalent for white sugar.

Want to show them the honey? Check out these recipes!

Honey Garlic Green Beans

This is a household favorite and it’s also delicious with broccoli, wax beans, and snow peas.  I use this sauce to quickly stir fry beans that I canned from the garden, too.

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Directions

Honey Roasted Vegetables

Ingredients

2-3 pounds of any combination of the following vegetables, cut into chunks:

Sauce

 Directions

Honey Cookies

 This recipe was sent in by a reader.  Thank you very much, Bob – we’ll be adding these to Easter dinner!  

My grandparents came to this country from Austria-Hungary in 1908. This is a recipe that my grandmother brought with her. This is my favorite cookie. These cookies are keep extremely well (they contain no shortening) and are great for mailing to servicemen and women.

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Directions

For colorful Holiday cookies you can use a cinnamon-sugar mix colored by a couple of drops of food coloring.

Here’s an extra bit of information on honey.

Please note: If you are going to use honey for its health benefits, it must be raw honey. Heating honey (pasteurization) destroys all pollen, enzymes, propolis, vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants, and aromatics.

Honey that has been heated and filtered is called commercial, regular, or liquid honey.

Raw honey is honey that is in the same condition as it was in the beehive. It is produced by extracting honey from the honeycomb [3] of the beehive and straining it to remove impurities.

Raw or organic raw honey [4] is recommended for cooking or baking (even though it will be heated) because the flavor and aroma will be more intense than if you used regular honey (liquid honey).

 Do you have any yummy honey recipes you’d like to share? Please post them in the comments!