Many years ago my real man and I both had bad colds so I made us a honey and lemon drink and it was so delicious we have had it as our morning tipple ever since. I don’t imagine it is doing us any particular good other than it makes us happy as I think the hot water destroys any health benefits. Anyhoo, for this reason we get through An Awful Lot of Honey – maybe 3 small jars a week – and as there is always a lot of it about I use it in many other ways too.
This is not about “leftover honey” because that just doesn’t happen; apparently honey keeps forever although I would recommend keeping it cool and dark! (Too cool and it may crystallise in which case just stand the jar in a pan of warm water and stir a bit till it clears again.) This being the case anyone that puts a best before date on it is just having a laugh.
This post concerns honey you don’t quite know what to do with or if you have too much - see the bottom of this post for a picture of when I had too much honey behind the wardrobe!
15 things to do with Not Leftover Honey
1. Use
instead of sugar for casual sweetening!
What I mean is don’t replace sugar with honey in baking or other precise
recipes as they are different consistency, sweetness etc., honey being somewhat
sweeter.
2. To
use every bit of honey rinse out the jar with hot water, add a squeeze of lemon
and enjoy the hot drink mentioned above.
3. Drizzle
over Greek yogurt, add almonds or walnut, sugared walnuts (recipe here) are delicious in
this.
4. Drizzle
over ice cream – vanilla ice cream (easy no churn vanilla ice cream recipe in my ebook!) sprinkled with salted peanuts with a trail
of honey snaking over it is deliciously different.
5. Stir a little honey into freshly cooked carrots together with a knob of butter and shake to glaze.
5. Stir a little honey into freshly cooked carrots together with a knob of butter and shake to glaze.
6. Honey
plus a little whole grain mustard stirred into mayonnaise makes a great
accompaniment to salads or spread in a ham sandwich.
7. Toss
a little in with butternut squash and red onion (recipe here) when roasting. Not too much mind or the whole thing with caramelise before it is cooked.
8. If
you have just a spoonful of honey left in the jar add 6 spoonfuls of olive oil,
3 of lemon juice, salt and pepper and shake to form a great salad dressing.
9. Brush
a little warm honey gently over freshly baked cake, bread pudding and the like to
glaze.
10. Honeyed Blue Cheese on Toast - trust me, this is delicious.
11. Stir
a little into fruit salads.
12. A
spoonful over porridge might help it go down! I don’t really like porridge yet I instinctively
feel that it should be served with light brown sugar, clotted cream and
Drambuie, although I've never tried it!
13. Stir
together with a knob of butter till melted and hot and serve with pancakes.
14. If you
don’t want to eat the honey use it as a face mask – smooth onto warm skin, leave
15-20 minutes, wash off with warm water and then splash your face with cold
water to close pores.
15. If you find
yourself in possession of quite a lot of honey, and if summer ever arrives,
then make this simple ice cream.
No Churn Honey Ice Cream
500 ml double cream
200 g condensed milk
200 g runny honey at
room temperature
~ Whip the cream
till thick.
~ Fold in the
condensed milk.
~ Fold in the honey.
~ Freeze.
Once you have been gobsmacked by how easy
and how delicious the ice cream is immediately check out my book “Luscious Ice Creams without a Machine” which gives over 100 similarly easy and yummy ice
cream recipes plus others for sauces, syrups, inclusions and serving
suggestions.
Honey is also believed to have aphrodisiac qualities, by the way!
If I can think of all these ideas for not leftover honey don't you wonder what ideas I have had for the 450 potential leftovers in my book Creative Ways to Use Up Leftovers?
If I can think of all these ideas for not leftover honey don't you wonder what ideas I have had for the 450 potential leftovers in my book Creative Ways to Use Up Leftovers?
Too Much Honey Behind the Wardrobe!
Speaking of honey look what I found behind built in
wardrobes in Tortola once, after a couple of months
away. I knew something was up as soon as
I unlocked the door; the place was buzzing!
5 comments:
If I ever cut myself, instead of using iodine or hydrogen peroxide, I reach for the honey and dab a little on the wound.
Good idea!
Love the photo at the top, never seen honey look so dramatic!
Wow! I never knew I know so little about honey. I find it really versatile and a trustworthy kitchen ally, all the more after reading this. This ice cream treat is superb!
You're talking my language where honey is concerned, that's for sure. I've used it for cuts, grazes, scrapes, splinters - all sorts - for years, on both family and the dogs.
Your honey behind the wardrobe is completely amazing! I bet you were flabbergasted - I know I would have been! :)
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