honey
By Chysom Scott
@CJscott (4187)
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
December 7, 2009 7:59pm CST
Please do not forget to use honey in your Christmas baking, it makes even the best foods tastier.
Do you use honey in any of your baking? Did you know the best way to measure honey is to spray the container, and warm up the honey first?
Be sure to reduce the oven temperature by 25 degrees, and it is 3/4 cup of honey for every 1 cup of sugar. I love honey, if you can use local honey even better, because local honey relieves seasonal allergies to a slight degree.
Please double check my facts here, check on google, I may have missed something, it seems to me I have.
Cheers.
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6 responses
@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
8 Dec 09
Fortunately I don't have allergies - seasonal or otherwise - because I do not care for the local honey around here. I really want to too. I've tried it twice now... it comes with part of the honeycomb inside the jar with it, but alas, I am addicted to the creamed honey called 'Pure Gold' that I get from dr mercola dot com.
I have been making my own yogurt for a little while now, and some of that honey drizzled over it with a splash of vanilla extract... man oh man... it is better than brownies!
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Kathy.@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
11 Dec 09
I don't like yogurt, but honey makes everything taste better. No seasonal allergies, me either but I have friends and family that do so I suggest it. Comb honey is neat, but sometimes the propolis(part of the comb)and beeswax gets stuck in my teeth.
Cheers Buddha.
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@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
10 Dec 09
Pound for pound....that is in a one to one ratio. and I highly suggest it, use a buckwheat honey if you like the malty taste from molasses.
There are many different honey's to choose from, depending on the majority of the flower/fruit/berry/vegetable crop that was flowering when the bees started storing it. Beekeepers keep really good track of it, I read that you can even get honey that tastes like pumpkin pie.
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@elitess (5070)
• Ipswich, England
8 Dec 09
Hi there Scott.
I didn't know these things about honey and haven't thought of using it instead of sugar, then there's the fact that i have not baked cakes / cookies myself so far, but this stuff is always good to know, as honey is a better choice over sugar, from our organism's point of view.
Thanks for sharing !
Cheers.
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@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
11 Dec 09
It is a far better choice then Sugar. Used to be the only choice, our bodies are better apt to deal with Honey then sugar as well. You should tell the ladies in your life, they will love you for it, and all your baked goods will taste better.
Cheers.
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@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
10 Dec 09
No, I never have used honey in any of my baking. I have just either gone by the recipe or not even thought about it. I really like honey, too, especially since I have a lot of allergies. I have used it on chicken, though. It makes it very good, too. A girl who used to go to church where I do told me that her daddy puts it on his chicken and it really helps his arthritis. I have been mixing honey with lemon juice in my water a lot here lately because I wanted to keep from getting a sore throat since I had a solo in the Messiah Monday Night and it really has helped. More on the Messiah and how it went later. Kathy.
I might want to try it sometime. Kathy.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Dec 09
I've never ever used honey instead of sugar for my baking. But, I really do love honey. I like to get it at one of the two orchards that are close to where we live because to me it tastes better than that which is commercially produced that you buy at the store. I never did realize though that ingesting local honey would help with your seasonal allergies. That is a great piece of information to have. I wonder, when you bake with honey, do you replace all of the sugar with honey or only a portion of it?
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@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
14 Dec 09
Just a portion dear, hang on I will go get my favorite book...
Okay I am back....*flip flip flip*
Right-O then. When substituting honey for sugar in backing, start out by substituting honey for half the sugar originally called for.
Then reduce the liquid called for in any recipe by ¼(one quarter) cup for each cup of honey used. and add ¼(one quarter) teaspoon baking soda for each cup of honey as well. It is a bit extra work, I feel it is worth it, and since it is baking it is fickle...
When measuring honey, either heat the cup(glass) or spray the cup with cooking spray or grease your cup.
And the other thing is to reduce cooking temperature by 25 degrees F. To prevent over browning.
Cheers. Courtesy of Honey from flower to table by Stephanie Rosenbaum.
@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
14 Dec 09
Thank you ramsey for stopping by to read the information. But just thanking me? No questions at all? That makes me kind of sad, I like it when People give me a really good reason to respond to their comments.
Cheers.
