Recipes and Honey Tips

We love to include honey in the foods that we eat. These are some of our favorite recipes:

• Honey is nature's sweet treat.
  
• Honey is 25% sweeter than sugar.
  
• Honey was man's very first sweetener.
  
• Honey is most often found in three forms:
  

1. Comb
   
2. Liquid
3. Creamed

Human beings need honeybees to pollinate our food supply. One third of the foods that we eat is directly or indirectly dependent upon honeybee pollination. Without honey bees we would have fewer almonds, melons, oranges, cherries, apples, cranberries, peaches, lemons, and pecans.
Honey naturally crystallizes over time. To re-liquefy, remove the lid from the container it is in and place the container in warm water (110 degrees) until the crystals dissolve.
Honey can be substituted for up to one half of the sugar in most recipes. Substitute 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of honey for each cup of sugar. For baked goods, reduce the liquid in the recipe by 1/4 of a cup and add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda for every cup of honey used. Reduce the recipe oven temperature by 25 degrees.
When measuring honey spray the measuring cup with non-stick cooking spray before measuring.
12 oz of honey is equal to 1 standard cup.