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Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Melting Honey![]() My gallon jar of honey is in a semi-solid state. This is actually a good thing, since that makes it much easier to measure. When I'm making bread (like challah, for example!), I measure my honey into a bowl (or the bread machine pan). To be completely honest, most times I just use a long-handled spoon to scoop out the honey, and try to guess on the amount. ;) ![]() Then I heat up about half of the water that's called for in the bread recipe. I heat the water really hot (maybe even to boiling!) and add it to the honey in my bowl. Sometimes I add salt or sugar or other things that the recipe calls for, but not eggs, flour, or yeast, for sure. ;) ![]() Then, I get one of my kitchen helpers to come and stir the honey until it melts. Before long, I have some lovely melted honey! I add the rest of the water that the recipe calls for -- only I use cold water this time. This makes the water and honey mixture the right temperature for making bread. And I continue on with my recipe... :) To participate in Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Post a kitchen tip in your blog, with a link to this post. Then come here and add your name, tip subject, and URL to this post! Links must be family friendly, as always. If you don't have a blog but would still like to share a tip, just leave a comment here with your tip! Everyone's ideas are appreciated. :) Note: Please link to your individual post, not your blog's main/front page! Thanks for participating! :) Kitchen Tip Tuesdays Participants
When honey is stored in a cool location (like my kitchen cupboards in the winter time...) it gets crystallized like you see in the picture! :) Well, it definately makes measuring easier when the honey is solid. But for some reason I feel wierd when I use it at that point! I just got my new big 5 gallon bucket of raw honey. What I do is divide it into 2 quart canning jars with lids, then store the jars in my deep freezer. Freezing honey doesn't effect the quality at all, and it doesn't crystalize one bit. (Until you bring it out and use it for a few months!) But sometimes I just leave it in my freezer and scoop out what I need. It stays nice and firm to scoop! That's such a good idea. Now if I can just get my honey out of the narrow-necked bottle it has crystallized in, I can use your idea! :) Next time I will put it into a wide-mouth jar as soon as I buy it. You talked about making Challah bread. I was reading the recipe and have a dumb question. When it says to let the dough rise in a warm place, what is considered a warm place. On the kitchen counter? Where? Your kitchen counter would work fine, if there were no cold drafts and the room was fairly warm (maybe 75 degrees or so). Our house is never that warm, so what I do it turn on the oven for 1-2 minutes (I set the timer so I don't forget!) and then turn it off. I put the bread in there so it can rise. The oven doesn't need to be too warm -- and in fact, shouldn't be too warm. Even if the oven isn't hot enough to kill the yeast, having it too warm will make the bread rise really quickly and it might not have as good a texture. A cooler kitchen (say, 70 degrees or so) will still work for rising bread, but it will take a lot longer for the dough to rise. :) Post new comment |
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Where do you find honey in a semi solid form? I have only ever seen it sold as a liquid.