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Honey is the ideal sweetener. Cakes and biscuits sweetened with honey have a greater depth of flavour and keeping qualities are improved - particularly fruit cakes/biscuits. Honey is better for your teeth than sugar. Usual household sugar is sucrose, which sticks to the teeth and holds sugar eating bacteria (which produces lactic acid which can dissolve tooth enamel and cause tooth decay) in place which is bad for teeth. Honey is already broken down into sucrose and fructose that the bacteria can eat and produce lactic acid, but not the fibrous network that holds the bacteria to the teeth.
Honey can be substituted for sugar in a cake. To do this, use the same weight measure of honey but reduce the liquid in the recipe by one quarter. Eg. Use 3/4 of a cup of milk instead of 1 cup. Also reduce cooking temperature by 15 degrees C.
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Store in a cool place. Honey never spoils.
The Food Standards Australian New Zealand code states that food with a longer than 2-year shelf life requires no use by or best before date. Honey falls into this category. Apparently they found honey in Egyptian tombs that was still good to eat 4,500 years after it had been stored there! |
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If you take a plant cutting and want to get the roots growing, raw honey makes an excellent propagator. Just dip the end of your plant cuttings in the honey and plant in moist soil. This makes sense, as our honey has all the healing properties that work in humans and all the live enzymes found in flowers |
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Health benefits - a sweet history |
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Among the multitude of things that constitute the daily life of mankind through all the ages, certain things have always been accorded a special place of importance. Basic elements such as air, fire and water formed the groundwork of primitive science and also of magic, while commodities, such things as salt, wine, bread and honey were woven into the myths, folk lore and religions of every race at every time in history.
From ancient times mankind has used unprocessed honey to give life, wisdom, courage, energy and strength, improve digestion, sooth sore throats and coughs, heal burns, wounds, and rashes. Some use it to sweeten drinks and in baking, also as a (sticky!) moisturiser. |
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Honey Uses
