a kilo of honey

champys

If you don't want to eat it, try mixing some honey with oatmeal: makes a great face scrub and it keeps well in a jar in the fridge. Another one: add a handful to your bath water together with half a pint of milk - seriously, this is lovely!

We have bees and apart from using honey to substitute sugar in cooking and baking (my OH even puts it in his coffee), I use it in soap making. But that only makes sense if you have the wax as well.

victotoro

I've got a recipe for gingerbread which uses half a pound of honey - if you fancy it I can post it.

Bongedone

squeaky wrote: »

It's bee sick - I'd bin it!

Couldn't resist that one, sorry.

It can be used as the sweet constituent of pretty much any sweet and sour sauce or barbeque sauce. that way it also tends to get well hidden

Funny, that is the subject on The Straight Dope today: -

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_040.html

oldMcDonald

I have been decluttering the kitchen and have found 6 jars of out of date honey in one of my cupboards. I don't even remember buying the stuff! It is about 4 months out of date and hasn't set or got sugar crystals - it looks and smells fine. Does anyone know if it is ok to use it?

If so, my next question is......

........does anyone have any ideas how to use up 6 big jars of honey?

Steve-o

Very unlikely its gone off. It's almost totally sugar, without enough moisture for anything to grow on it. That's why jam keeps so long.

raeble

Personally if it smelt ok, and tasted ok I would use it. Probably cook it rather than spreading it on toast just to be on the safe side. Still - I've never looked at the use by date on honey so I could have been eating out of date honey ...

Honey recipes
http://www.honeyrecipes.org.uk/
http://www.honeyassociation.com/recepies2.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_honey.shtml#recipes

nearlyrich

I thought honey was the one food that never goes off??

foreign_correspondent

I agree, honey does not go off. I think they found some in a pyramid that was still edible! It will be fine. I have eaten honey fudge, which was delicious, but I dont have a recipe - I bet there is one somewhere on here or google!!

It might be worth keeping hold of the honey and making fudge with it as christmas pressies?? Would look lovely in little cellophane bags with ribbons!

loads of honey recipes here
http://www.honeyassociation.com/recepies2.htm
and here
http://www.honey.com/consumers/recipes/recipes.asp
and here
http://www.honey.com/consumers/recipes/recipes.asp

champys

Correct, honey doesn't go off. Also it should never be kept in the fridge. And there are other uses than in food: mixed with oatmeal it makes a lovely face scrub. Or try a handful of honey and a few cups of milk in your bathwater! We have bees so plenty of the stuff - my DH swears by putting honey in his coffee. But so do most beekeepers...... :-)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I heard about the pyramid honey still being edible - although I'm not too sure I'd want to try something that still had a Pharoah's liver floating around in it....

Could make cinder toffee/honeycomb (crunchie bars to most people), bash it up and shove it into icecream. It draws water out of things, so I think that's why it's good for infected cuts/ulcers, as it draws the yuck out of them.

Honey icecream?

Homemade greek yoghurt/frozen yoghurt with honey? Honeycakes?

DD2 has been watching the Spiderwick Chronicles and suggests offering it to your house Brownie! (Awwww)