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Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World showcases a wealth of recipes for cookies, breads, pies, puddings, and cakes that feature honey as an essential ingredient. Noted entomologist May Berenbaum also details the fascinating history of honey harvesting and consumption around the world, explains the honey bee's extraordinary capacity to process nectar into concentrated sweetness, and marvels at honey's diverse flavors and health benefits. Honey is a unique food because of its power to evoke a particular time and place. Every time it is collected from a hive, honey takes on the nuanced flavors of a particular set of flowers--clover, orange blossoms, buckwheat, or others--at a certain point in time processed and stored by a particular group of bees. Honey is not just a snapshot of a time and place--it's the taste of a time and place, and it lends its flavors to the delectable baked goods and other treats found here. More than a cookbook, Honey, I'm Homemade is a tribute to the remarkable work of Apis mellifera, the humble honey bee whose pollination services allow three-quarters of all flowering plant species to reproduce and flourish. Sales of the book will benefit the University of Illinois Pollinatarium--the first freestanding science outreach center in the nation devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators. Because so much depends on honey bees, and because people have benefited from their labors for millennia, Honey, I'm Homemade is the perfect way to share and celebrate honey's sweetness and delight.… (more)
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Some of my Favorite recipes (there are many more):
Honey Wafers
Honey Nut Brownies
First-Prize Honey Gingerbread
Sopaipilla (Fried Puff-Bread)
Honorable
What I Liked: The different ways that ...more What I Loved: There were some great recipes that I will be trying. Also the tips they gave you to work with honey in the kitchen were extremely helpful!
Some of my Favorite recipes (there are many more):
Honey Wafers
Honey Nut Brownies
First-Prize Honey Gingerbread
Sopaipilla (Fried Puff-Bread)
Honorable Mentions: Apple Honey Crisp, Honey Devil's Food Cake, Rum Cake, Refrigerator Apple Pie
What I Liked: The different ways that you can use honey and the future of honey. I really enjoyed reading this cookbook
Who I Would Recommend it to: Anyone who loves honey and/or anyone who likes cooking with different ingredients