Honey in the kitchen and medicine chest

In short

• Never give honey to children under 12 months, not in cake, tea or on a dummy: risk of infant botulism.
• Honey is 80 % sugar. For teeth, weight and diabetes, the same applies as for sugar.
• In baking: roughly the same weight of honey as sugar, with less liquid, a pinch of bicarbonate of soda and an oven 10–15 °C lower.
• For coughs in children over one year and adults: ½–2 teaspoons of honey before bed.
• Home honey doesn't go on open wounds or burns. For wounds there is sterile medical-grade honey from the pharmacy.
• Herbal honey only with dried herbs. Fresh herbs, onion, garlic and ginger in honey: fridge, and not for long.

What's inside

Chapters

1. Honey as a food
2. Honey instead of sugar in baking and cooking
3. Recipes from the homestead kitchen
4. Herbal honey and oxymel
5. Honey in the medicine chest
6. Pollen and comb in the kitchen
7. Who mustn't eat honey, or must take care
8. Keeping honey in the kitchen
9. Common mistakes
10. Printable checklist

Worksheets

• Kitchen and medicine chest calendar
• Sugar swap calculator
• Recipe calculator
• Date calculator
• Medicine chest card
• My honey recipes
• Labels