Hiram's blog: "Honey Recipes"

Honey soap is a beautiful soap with a wonderful sweet smell. It comes out a great deep brown color, and feels fabulous on your skin. Here's a tip for you, whenever you are measuring honey or molasses or any other viscous liquid along those lines, if you spray the measuring cup or spoon with a PAM type spray, the honey will pour out more completely, and cleanup will be much easier. 12 oz veg shortening 4 oz coconut oil 1 oz beeswax 1 cup distilled water 2 oz lye 1/8 cup (1 fluid ounce) honey Mix lye and water, allow to cool. Melt vegetable shortening. Over a double boiler, melt wax and coconut oil together together, and keep warm. When shortening is 120* and lye is 100*, pour lye mixture into shortening and stir until tracing occurs. Pour wax and oil mixture into soap mixture stirring constantly ( the mixture will get VERY thick with the addition of the beeswax mix) When the beeswax mixture is completely blended, stir in the honey and pour into molds. Unmold after 24-48 hours. Allow to age for 3 weeks.

1/2 c. shortening 1/2 c. honey 1/2 c. brown sugar 1 egg 1/2 c. peanut butter 1/2 tsp. salt 2 c. flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda Cream shortening, honey, & sugar together until light and fluffy. Add well beaten egg. Add flour and soda together, stir in and mix well. Form into small balls of dough, place on greased cookie sheet, flatten with fork. Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes.

2 cups warm mashed sweet potatoes 1/4 tsp salt 1 Tbls light brown sugar 2 Tbsp honey 2 Tbsp butter 1/2 cup milk 1 cup miniature marsh Blend sweet potatoes, salt, brown sugar, honey, butter,and milk. Spoon into a buttered 1-quart cassrole dish. Top with marshmellows. Bake at 350 F until marshmellows are browned. Makes 4 servings

Honey Butter is wonderful on toast, muffins, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, etc.! It makes a great gift too! This recipe uses raw honey. "Raw honey" describes honey in it's natural state; it has not been heated to retard crystallization and pollen has not bee filtered out. The beneficial nature (enzymes and pollen, anti-bacterial and antioxidant characteristics, for instance) of honey is retained in "raw honey". 1/2 cup butter 1 cup honey Cream the butter. Add the honey and blend/whip until smooth. Store in covered glass containers and refrigerated. Variations include adding some grated rind of an orange. Or, add about 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Invent your own special blend.

1/4 C of Boiling water 1/4 C of Honey 3/4 C of cold water 2 T instant coffee granules 1 cinnamon stick (or 1 vanilla bean) 2 inch piece 1 quart low fat milk ice cubes Dissolve cofee granules in boiling water; stir in honey. Add cold water and cinnamon stick; stir to mix. Store in refrigerator until ready to use. To make latte, fill a tall glass with ice cubes; stir in 1/4 C of coffee-honey concentrate. Fill glass with milk; stir to mix. Makes 4 servings