The main ingredient of each of these one hundred and forty-three recipes is honey . I use raw honey when cooking. I find it integrates with the other ingredients best because it is unadulterated. As I was growing up, I remember bottles or jars of honey sitting on a kitchen shelf for months. Used only once or twice, the honey would be tossed into the garbage because it had been there for so long.
Most housewives didn t have much use for honey.
Almost all recipes called for granulated sugar for sweetening. So unless the honey jar found its way to the table for hot biscuits, it was never used. A few years ago we received a five-gallon pail of raw honey from my cousin in Northern Oregon who is a beekeeper. Well, once we tasted it, honey became a staple in our kitchen. We shared the nectar with friends and soon found ourselves in the honey business with 600 pounds of honey in our garage.