Sweeten your culinary creations
Imagine a warm, inviting kitchen with sunlight streaming through the windows. On the wooden countertop, there's a mixing bowl filled with a rich, golden batter being slowly drizzled with honey. Nearby, there are jars of different types of honey, each labelled with its unique floral source. Freshly baked honey-glazed biscuits and a honey-infused cake cool on a rack, their surfaces glistening. In the background, there's a saucepan on the stove with a simmering honey syrup, ready to be poured over a bowl of freshly cut pears, preserving their vibrant color. The entire kitchen is filled with a comforting, sweet aroma that promises delicious treats.
Natural Sweetener: Use honey as a natural alternative to refined sugar for a rich, smooth sweetness in your recipes.
Flavor Enhancer: Add a touch of honey to marinades, dressings, and sauces to elevate their flavor profiles with its unique, floral notes.
Health Boost: Drizzle honey over yogurt, oatmeal, or fruit for a nutritious and delightful treat packed with antioxidants and natural energy.
Baking Magic: Remember, honey helps your baked goods stay moist and tender, ensuring every bite is as delightful as the first.
Choosing your Premium Honey for Outstanding Results
Generally lighter honeys are milder in flavour and darker honeys are stronger in flavour
Use light honey for white cakes, biscuits, ice cream, milk puddings, stewed fruits and jams.
Use darker honey for stronger flavour in gingerbread, fruit cakes, chocolate combinations, marinades and other meat dishes.
Reduce your Refined Sugar in Baking and Reap the Rewards
Have fun experimenting with your favourite dishes that benefit from a touch of sweetness. Start with your recipes that you already know the consistency are you after:
Swap equally while reducing liquid
1 cup sugar for 1 cup honey, reduce 1 cup liquid for 3/4 cup liquid
Swap syrup for honey equally,
Add honey while reducing sugar (best way to experiment for optimum results)
1 cup sugar use 3/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup honey, or
use 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup honey
then adjust your liquid to the required consistency
Be sure to lower your oven temperature (10-15 degrees celcius) to prevent over-browning.
Add 1/2 tsp bi-carb soda for each 1 cup of honey used can lighten the mixture
Benefits of using honey in cakes and biscuits including staying fresher for longer as the honey absorbs and retains moisture retards the drying out and staling of baked goods.
Honey Measuring without the Mess
Dip your spoon in hot water before measuring honey and it will slide off the spoon easily.
Preserve with Honey: Nature’s Sweet Secret
Incorporating honey into your preserving syrup helps keep fruits bright and clear, especially those prone to browning, like pears. The strength of the honey syrup should vary based on the tartness or sweetness of the fruit to achieve the best results.
Use very light syrup (ie 1 part honey to 5-6 parts water) for fruits such as pears.
Use heavier syrup (ie 1 part honey to 2-4 parts water) for fruits such as plums, apricots.
Exchange some or all sugar with honey (see below)
Lower oven temperature by 10-15o C to prevent over-browning of honey-baked goods
*Adding ½ Tsp bi-carb soda for 1 cup of honey may be needed to help lighten mixture.
Baked goods like cakes and biscuits made with honey tend to stay fresh longer. Honey's ability to absorb and retain moisture helps prevent these items from drying out and becoming stale.
When adding honey to creamed or whipped butter, cream, or eggs, pour it in slowly in a fine stream while continuing to beat. This ensures better volume and texture.
Experiment with preserving fruit with honey, try lighter syrup before a heavier one. If you need more sweetening, you can add at the end and just use a darker honey next time.
Store your honey in a tightly sealed container at room temperature (cold temperatures may candy the honey
If your honey is candied and you want it runny, simply put jar in warm water.
Honey Goes Way Beyond the Pantry
Use for coughs, colds, sore throats
Chapped skin
Scalds and burns, cuts, abscesses, boils, ulcers
Sleepless nights.
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