A correspondent asks: Do you happen to know what the honey to sugar equivalent is? I have a jar of honey. I'd like to use it up in cooking, but I'm not sure what the equivalent is between sugar and honey and I don't want to do a one to one and have things too sweet.
Thank you!
Answer:
You really can't substitute honey for sugar because the honey has so much water in it. It tends to make baked goods heavy. So make sure your recipe calls for honey. One baked thing that you can substitute it for sugar in is bread -- it makes the texture smooth and the bread may keep it from going stale so soon.
I use a fair amount of honey. Mostly I put it in tea and coffee instead of sugar. Keep it in a jar or sugar bowl on the counter. That way it'll be convenient to use.
I also make a lot of mixed fruit salad. For dressing, I dissolve a tablespoon or so of honey in some hot water, cool and add lime juice to taste.
You can have it on toast (ummm, with butter!). You can put it on your hot cereal.
Anyone have any other ideas?
There was a time when I didn't work evenings. When I could come home and cook. I made everything from scratch. Cooking was easy and ideas were fresh (like the produce) and everything tasted good. My daughter Maggie was still living at home and her sister Lyza was in town, as was my mother, Pearl. I started with the shorthand food diaries I had kept in the late 1990s. Then I kept finding things to say about food.
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