Honey Recipes

Send us your favorite honey recipes. We will feature them on Honey
Garden Gifts. It is fun to go to used book stores and collect old recipe
books. You will find many ideas for cooking with honey that we no
longer use and have forgotten.

Honey Icing Recipe

Ingredients 1 cup of sugar

1/2 cup of honey

1/8 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of diced marshmellows

1/4 cup of water

1 egg white-stiffly beaten

Combine sugar, honey, water, and salt. Boil
to soft ball stage (236 degrees F.) Add marshmallows. Pour slowly, beating
constantly, onto egg white. Beat until thick and creamy.

This is an old honey recipe from my
grandmother's 1944 cook book. (The HouseHold Searchlight) Submitted by S.M.,
Missouri



Honey-Kissed Lip Balm Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup sweet almond oil*

1/2 cup beeswax**

2 Tbsp. honey

Place almond oil and
beeswax in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute or until
mixture melts. Whisk honey into beeswax mixture; stir well. Set aside to cool
completely. When cool, pour into small containers with lids. Apply to lips as
a moisturizer or on top of lipstick for extra shine. Makes about 11/2 cups.

*Sweet almond oil can be
found at natural food stores.

** Beeswax can be
purchased at www.honeygardenGIFTS.com .



French Dressing

1/3 cup oil,

1/4 cup vinegar

1/4 cup honey,

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. paprika,

2 Tbsp. minced onion

1/2 cup ketchup

Pour ingredients into bottle and shake well.



Honey Morning Muffins

Makes 12 muffins

2 1/2 cups 100% bran cereal

1-1/4 cups buttermilk,

1/2 cup Clover honey

1/3 cup vegetable oil,

1/2 Tbls grated orange peel

2 eggs,

2/3 cup dried cranberries

1-1/2 cups flour,

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 teaspoons baking powder,

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Preheat over to 375 F and line 12 muffin tins
with paper wrappers. Stir the cereal and buttermilk together in a large bowl;
let stand for 5 minutes to soften cereal. Add honey, oil, orange peel and eggs
to bowl. Stir until combined, then add cranberries. Mix all dry ingreients in
a small bowl and add to cereal, mixing just until combined. Stir in pecans, if
desired, and spoon into prepared muffin tins. Muffin tins will be very full.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. Serve with
Honey Orange Butter.



Honey Orange Butter

Stir together

1/2 cup softened butter.

1/2 cup honey and

1 Tablespoon grated orange peel.



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