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This section is dedicated to recipes made with honey, but before explaining some recipes for dishes made with honey, we give you some tips about their culinary use.
- Fluffiness in the oven
Honey allows baked goods to remain fluffy because, being hygroscopic, it absorbs moisture. This property is interesting especially in confectionery: cakes, cookies, cakes, nougat, etc. Bread takes much longer to become stale if a small amount of honey is added when making it.
- Sweetener for yogurt, desserts with fruits and juices
Honey is a good sweetener for natural yogurt, as well as for desserts with fruits that, for industrial reasons, are collected unripe on the tree and, therefore, are much less sweet (they also lack other of their virtues) . Anyway, this sweetener goes very well with most fruits. Dr. Vanden recommended it with bananas. In the case of fruit juices, it is convenient to know well all the ingredients and the type of honey to be used, since these are flavors with a lot of personality that may not fit with each other. If the honey is very thick or hard, it will come off more easily if, before taking it, you put the spoon in hot water
- Breakfast with toasts
Think of honey in the morning, at breakfast, as a sweet accompanied by natural or toasted bread. The most indulgent will toss it on top of some good homemade waffles (with or without butter). This beekeeping product is always preferable to jams because it does not contain added sugar (and much better than jams, which contain more sugar).
If the tea or herbal teas are sweetened with honey, they must not be freshly boiled because they could destroy many of the properties of the sweetener, as has already been seen. In the kitchen, it is usually recommended to use this food at temperatures not exceeding 45 - 60º C, except if they are baked, in which case the presence of honey is usually irrelevant.
- Afternoon snack
In the snack, everything said for breakfast is valid; yes, putting a little emphasis on fruits. Crepes are always delicious for festive snacks ... and they are not as laborious as they seem.
- Compatibilities
Honey is great, but it doesn't go well with oil, despite the great sauces that can be made with both ingredients. So, if the food compatibility is followed, when you eat salad it is better if the dessert does not include honey. Many people have eliminated dessert from meals, or have one that is very light and easy to digest. Depending on what type it is (most fruits, for example), it can be included at the beginning of the meal, instead of the traditional salad. There are many who already follow the good combinations of foods in their diet, which favors health and prevents digestive complications.
- Honey with cinnamon
In the US, the custom of regularly consuming with breakfast, instead of jam or butter, a paste made with honey and cinnamon is quite widespread. The regular intake of this paste mitigates the lack of energy, reduces cholesterol and strengthens the heart.
- Honey and lemon juice
The combination of honey and lemon juice results in an excellent lemonade, to which you can add a little lime juice. It is also recommended for cases of fever, then several teaspoons will be taken during the day.