Honey for sugar

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Meleah,

Honey is doubly sweet as sugar so it would be 1/2 the amount of sugar in your

recipe.

Charlene

Can anyone give me the ratio of substituting honey for sugar in a recipe, or

does it depend on what is being made? I am about to make my first batch of

frozen yogurt for iel, and everything in the recipe is legal except for

the sugar. It's an apricot frozen yogurt. A simple syrup is made to soak the

dried apricots in. After the apricots have been removed, the syrup is boiled

into a caramel. Of course, I can't use the sugar to make the syrup, so I need to

use honey. It calls for 1 1/3 cups sugar and 1 cup water to make the simple

syrup/caramel. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Meleah scd 05/06

iel 3yrs., asd Mark 1yr. Ethan 5yrs.

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You use, generally, less liquid in a recipe that you use honey in as a

substitute for sugar. In baking you need to lower the oven temperature

25-50 degrees.

Things brown faster with honey.

I used to have the exact ratios - I will look for them tonight.

Here's what I did find in a quick search on the Internet.

To cook with honey instead of sugar, substitute one cup of liquid honey for

each cup of sugar called for in a recipe and reduce the liquid in the recipe

by one-quarter cup for each cup of honey you use. Substituting honey for

sugar in baking is a little trickier and you'll have to rely on trial and

error, but here are a few general rules of thumb. In addition to reducing

the liquid in the recipe as described, add an extra half teaspoon of baking

soda for each cup of honey used in place of sugar in a recipe. The extra

baking soda is added to neutralize the acid in the honey. Also, be sure to

reduce the oven temperature by twenty-five degrees and start checking a

little earlier than you normally would, as baked goods made with honey tend

to brown faster than those made with sugar.

To make honey easier to pour and measure, warm it slightly in a microwave

oven or in a pot in an inch of simmering water. Lightly oil your measuring

spoons and/or cups when measuring.

-- Honey for sugar

Can anyone give me the ratio of substituting honey for sugar in a recipe, or

does it depend on what is being made? I am about to make my first batch of

frozen yogurt for iel, and everything in the recipe is legal except

for the sugar. It's an apricot frozen yogurt. A simple syrup is made to soak

the dried apricots in. After the apricots have been removed, the syrup is

boiled into a caramel. Of course, I can't use the sugar to make the syrup,

so I need to use honey. It calls for 1 1/3 cups sugar and 1 cup water to

make the simple syrup/caramel. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Meleah scd 05/06

iel 3yrs., asd Mark 1yr. Ethan 5yrs.

[Guest guest]

Meleah,

>> Can anyone give me the ratio of substituting honey for sugar in a

recipe, or does it depend on what is being made? <<

It depends. <g> Most people claim that honey is twice as sweet as sugar, so

you use less. I haven't found it to work that way.

>> A simple syrup is made to soak the dried apricots in. After the

apricots have been removed, the syrup is boiled into a caramel. Of course,

I can't use the sugar to make the syrup, so I need to use honey. It calls

for 1 1/3 cups sugar and 1 cup water to make the simple syrup/caramel. Any

thoughts are greatly appreciated. <<

I discussed simple syrups with some cook friends of mine. They said that

you typically get the same amount of syrup that you have water when making

a sugar / water syrup. (Reminder: sugar is SCD-illegal.)

Since you are soaking dried apricots in it, my inclination would be to use

1 cup honey, and perhaps stir in 1/3 cup water, then soak the apricots.

This means there's adequate water to soften the dried fruit, and plenty of

sweet to make into the caramel.

Under other circumstances, and depending on what I was using the honey for,

I might use 1 1/3 cups honey, undiluted, especially if I were cooking it

down.

-- Marilyn (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)

Undiagnosed IBS 25 Years, SCD Five Years

Darn Good SCD Cook

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