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Honey

A naturally sweet, viscous liquid made from the nectar of flowers, collected by honey bees.                                                                                             Honey comes in numerous varieties with different colours, textures and flavours.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The flavour, colour and sweetness is dependent on which type of flower the nectar was collected from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             For at least 4,000 years we have been using honey for health.

Trace elements in honey, has many minerals, making it nutritionally superior to sugar specifically for

 its health-giving properties and is used internally for problems such as stomach complaints and externally on burns.

It can also be used to aid weight loss, it burns fat mixed with vinegar and garlic, so could help

anyone wishing to slim. combined with a healthy diet!

 Apart from spreading it on your toast, use honey as a sweetener to replace sugar in desserts,                                                                                       drinks and in baking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Stir honey into yoghurt and spoon onto fruit salads or use it as the basis for a sticky marinade                                                                                         for pork or chicken - honey and mustard is a great combination.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Honey also makes a delicious glaze for roast pork, sausages or parsnips. Honey keeps in the larder for up to a year.                                                Clear honey has a tendency to crystallize after time, but just put the jar in a jug of hot water for a minute or so and                                                                it will turn clear again.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Cooking with honey.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Many honey fans replace the sugar in their diet with honey.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Cooking with honey differs from cooking with sugar, though, so recipes will generally have to be adjusted                                                             accordingly.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       For example, honey is hygroscopic, which means it absorbs moisture.

 Replacing sugar  honey in your baking will therefore result in cakes that remain moist for longer.

 As honey tastes ‘sweeter’ than sugar does, the general advice is to use one quantity of honey to replace one-and-one-quarter quantities of sugar.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              View our menus and remedies, will not only improve your health but will make your food taste much better

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