Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — USE MORE HONEY IN YOUR COOKING [ARTICLE]

USE MORE HONEY IN YOUR COOKING

One of Best Substitutes for Sugar to Be Found on Any Farm Is in Apiary. SEVERAL RECIPES ARE GIVEN Little Bee Makes It Possible for One to Indulge In Sweets Without Troubling Conscience—Useful In Preserves. If you keep bees, count yourself fortunate in these days of sugar stringency. The bees can provide you with one of the best of the sugar substitutes, and will make it possible for you to Indulge your taste for sweets without hurting your conscience. With honey to supplement the limited sugar supply, the two pounds per person per month becomes a liberal allowance. Not only IS the honey useful to eat as such, either strained, in the comb, or candied, but it lends Itself to various combinations that make it practicable to use in place of sugar. Baked fruit, such as whole apples with the cores removed; baked whole peaches, or cooked dried fruit are very good sweetened with honey in place of sugar. Preserves .or marmalades may also be made with honey. Apple or pear preserves made by the following recipe are very good: Honey Preserves.

2 quarts apples or 1 teaspoonful cfnpears cut into namon small pieces 1 cupful vinegar 2 cupfuls *honey Heat the honey, vinegar, and cinnamon together and cook the pieces of fruit a few at a.time in the sirup until they become transparent. Pour over all the sirup which remains after all the fruit is cooked. Honey may also be used in cake making or for sweetening ice cream, custards or puddings, and in cake and cookie making. In substituting honey for sugar you will get good results if you will follow your old recipes, substituting a cupful of honey for a cupful of sugar and using one-fourth less of whatever liquid the recipe requires. Soft Honey Custard. 2 cupfuls milk 1-8 cupful honey 3 egg yolks • % teaspoonful salt Mix the honey, eggs and salt. Scald the milk and pour it over the eggs. Cook in a double boiler until the mixture thickens. This custard is suitable for use in place of cream or gelatin desserts or to be poured over sliced oranges or stewed fruit. Here are some cakes and cookies making use of honey for sweetening that have been tested and found good. Some soda is added in most cases because of the slight acidity of honey. Soft Honey Cake. % cupful butter 1 teaspoonful soda 1 cupful honey % teaspoonful gin--1 CSS >-4 , % cupful Bout milk 4 cupfuls flour % teaspoonful cln- % teaspoonful salt namon Rub the butter and honey together, add the egg, well beaten, then the sour milk, and the flour sifted with the soda and spices. Bake in shallow pan. Honey Drop Cakes. % cupful honey 2 tablespoonfuls wa- % cupful butter ter % teaspoonful dn- 1 cupful raisins, cut namon in small pieces % teaspoonful cloves % teaspoonful salt 1 egg 1 teaspoonful bakmto 2 cupfuls flour Ing powder % teaspoonful soda Heat the honey and butter until the butter melts. While the mixture is warm add the spices. When cold add part of the flour, the egg wen beaten, the soda dissolved In water, and the raisins. Add enough other flour to make a dough that will hold its shape. Drop by spoonfuls on a buttered tin and bake in a moderate oven. Honey Sponge Cake. % cupful sugar 1 cupful sifted Hour % cupful honey % teaspoonful salt 4 ® res . . .. Wt the sugar and honey and boil

until the sirup will spin a thread when dropped from the spoon. Pour the sirup over the yolks of the eggs, which have be ta beaten until light. Beat the mixture until cold; add the flour and cut and fold the beaten whites of the eggs into the mixture. Bake for 40 or 50 minutes in a pan lined with but-' tered paper in a slow oven. Honey Cookies. 2-3 cupful honey 1 teaspoonful all-2-3 cupful sugar spice 2% cupfuls flour 2 ounces finely % teaspoonful soda chopped candled 1% teaspoonfuls cin- orange peel namon % pound walnut 1 teaspoonful cloves meats, finely % tcaspoonful salt chopped Sift together the flour, spices, and soda, and add other ingredients. Knead thoroughly roll out thin, and cut with a biscuit cutter. These cookies are very hard. For other recipes send to the United States department of agriculture for Farmers’ Bulletin Na. 653, “Honey and Its Uses in the Home.” Make the most of your honey supply and save the sugar.