USES FOR HONEY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 15

USES FOR HONEY

EXCELLENT HINTS

There are few things sweeter to the palate than clean, golden honey, and although we are singularly fortunate in being able to obtain great quantities of it, yet it is a fact that it is not generally put to its fullest use in culinary ways, states the "Melbourne Age."

Have you ever thought of what an interesting variety it may lend,' for instance, to jam, if used as a substitute for sugar? "While used instead of castor sugar for cut grapefruit or melon, it creates a distinctive flavouring which does not spoil that of the fruit.

Then, again, a tablespoon of -honey added to salad dressing is a distinct improvement. For a special cake icing allow half a cupful of honey to two of icing sugar, four tablespoonsful of whipped cream and two of melted butter, keeping the heat very low while blending the mixture. An icing of this type is not so sugary sweet as one made with sugar alone.

For a sandwich filling, try mixing ground almonds with just enough honey to bind them and render them spreadable, adding a pinch of cinuamon. A tablespoonful of hymey at the bottom of an apple charlotte will give the dish a distinctive flavour, and it will improve baked apples, also, if it is added two minutes before, thpy,arc remold from. the. oven.". :'.:,...