By Tom Meade
Tips for Cookingwith Honey
When measuring honey , moisten the appraise cupwith water or rock oil toprevent sticking .
Substitute2/3 to ¾ cup of honey for 1 cup of sugar in recipes .
When baking with honey , lower the oven temperatureby 25 degrees .
Add two tablespoonful of dearest to a patty admixture tomake the patty moistand less crumbly .
Use dark honey , such a buckwheat honey , as asubstitute for molasses and chocolate-brown sugarin bake attic .
Pleasedo not store dear in the fridge . Store it at elbow room temperature .
When love crystallizes of course , immerse the jolt in warm waterto liquefy it again .
Warning!Please do not feed dear to kid younger than a year previous . Though love is a “ health food , ” it may harm infants whose resistant organization have not developed .
Honey sum up a delicious fresh attribute to beverages , salads , main dishes , vegetables and desserts , and it ’s the levelheaded alternative to refined sugar .
Honey comes in an infinite bit of varietal wine , like wines . Each has its own trenchant scent and flavor , count on the form of flower where the bee were gleaning nectar.(Supermarket dearest broadly speaking has a consistently bland flavor because it ’s blend . )
It ’s a treat to taste and equate honey at farmers ’ markets and local nutrient co - ops .
Like wines , sure honey varietal are better than others for certain recipes .
Beekeepers Share RecipesIn central Massachusetts , members of the Worcester County Beekeepers Association have been swapping recipes for generations .
The previous bee - keeping group in the body politic , it celebrate its centennial day of remembrance in 2000 by publishingOne Hundred Years of Cooking With Honey . It ’s one of those marvelous annulus - bound cookbook that contain so many crime syndicate recipes that fix cherish . Here are some variation to judge !
Thyme and Honey Lamb ChopsHere ’s a edition of the beekeepers ’ recipe for pork barrel chop shot . If there is a Mediterranean grocery store store nearby , it may have Hellenic thyme love which is in a class of its own .
Ingredients
PreparationPre - heat the oven to 400 degrees . Dip the chop in dearest , sprinkle with thyme leaf . Bake about 30 minutes or less , depending on thickness of chops . deform once while baking . Garnish with a sprig of fresh thyme .
Honey Ice CubesOn a hot summertime day , dear is delicious in ice tea , so why not put it in cubes for tea leaf and other beverages . The Worcester beekeepers do n’t recommend it , but dearest chalk cubes are capital in a promiscuous Pilsener - style beer to make a version of the British summertime drink , shandy .
Mix together :
stream in an ice - cube tray and freeze . In a methamphetamine , pour potable over the cube
Vermont TonicIn Vermont family line medicine , there is a tonic water that is a sure thirst quencher while working alfresco :
Mix 2 tablespoon of honey with 2 tablespoons of apple - cider acetum and 8 troy ounce of water . Pour over methamphetamine hydrochloride .
Honeyed acorn squashWe have added more honey and butter , instead of margarine , to this beekeepers ’ recipe .
PreparationPre - heat the over to 375 degrees . Cut squash in half and hit seeds and pulp magazine . Bake cut - side - down in ½ column inch of piss for 30 minute . Drain the liquidity from the genus Pan , and reverse the squash racquets upright , and pour some of the love potpourri into each half . broil another 15 minutes or until supply ship .
Honey Pecan Pie
PreparationPre - heat oven to 350 degrees . Put all the ingredients , except the pecans , into a blender , and immix for 15 second at medium speed . Empty the mixture into a crust - lined , 9 - in pie plate . scatter with pecan , and bake for 45 minute , until the fill is set .
yield dipThis formula , also with cyder acetum , is from the Worcester County beekeepers .
Ingredients1/2 loving cup honey2 T. cider vinegar1/2 tsp . salt1/3 cup oil2 tsp . poppy ejaculate
mix and escape from well . Store in a jar , and dunk any yield into it .
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