Honey Commonly Used in Recipes....

During the "old days" recipes called for honey to add sweetness. In fact, honey was once the only method of sweetening until sugar cane was introduced and so old recipes do feature it strongly. Indeed during war time, with sugar on ration, bee keepers came into their own and honey was once again used as a sweetener. Gail Anderson-Dargatz in her strikingly evocative novel on Canadian farming, “A recipe for bees” says “During the war honey had replaced sugar for canning, sweetening tea and coffee, and making cakes and cookies. Now that the war and rationing was ended, the market for honey had bottomed out. Augusta herself had dumped her honey-canned fruit once sugar was available. Everyone was hungry for sugar then, and sick and tired of honey.”
Read more: http://www.smallholder.co.uk/news/beesandhoney/4788308.Using_honey_for_your_smallholder_festive_fare/
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