San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-17
USE Of HONEY
. ADDS To TASTE
Of COOKING
Improves Flavor Of Cakes
and Prevents Sog-
giness.
USED In PRESERVES
Is Efficacious for Nearly
Every Human Ailment
Known.
USED IN PRESERVES
BY l.. MADELEINE MILLIGAN.

If there are any individuals who
think they cannot eat this sweet, we
would suggest a light-colored honey.
mild in flavor, and the use Of milk
with it is recommended. Many times
dislike has been taken TO honey be-
cause it has been eaten in too large
quantities at one time. 1t is a valu-
able sweet. and our systems demand
food of this kind to such an extent
| that we would be greatly benefited if
it were substituted for sugar and cheap
molasses in much of our everyday cook
ing. Children especially long for, candy
and sweet things. This is a natural
longing and should not be unduly sup
pressed; rather it should be satisfied
with the best sweets at our command,
and it is equally important that it be
satisfied at the proper time, not when
the stomach is empty but when there is
| food in it, so that there will be do dan
ger of overeating.
| Some Cannot Eat Honey.
A few persons have certain idiosyn-
crasies with regard to food, and it
| sometimes happens that honey from
any source. or even thick sugar syrup
| or preserves cause violent stomach
pains. These perhaps may be obliged
! to refrain from eating all honey.
Fruits preserved in honey have long
been relished for their superior flavor.
| The famous Bar lie Due preserves are
made with honey. In the early days,
and to some extent at this time, in
certain parts of Europe. honey is used
in making fermented drinks which are
reported to be as powerful as they are
popular. 1t may not be generally
known. but our large biscuit companies
and commercial bakeries use honey ex-
tensively in the manufacture. of cakes
and cookies which will probably be
kept for some time before they are
eaten. Some of the largest biscuit
companies purchase at one time from
80 to 10 carloads Of the very finest
honeys for their baking.
Prevents Soggy Cakes.
J II was formerly believed that cakes
baked with honey absorbed moisture
from the air. but workers in the Nutri-
| tion Laboratory of the Department OF
| Agriculture have conducted expert
ments which show that the abiding
softness of honey cakes is due to other
causes not yet determined. The TACT
that such cakes never become soggy,
even though they be exposed to moist
air for long time, seems to bear OUT
these conclusions. Our foreign neigh-
bors have used this secret for years IN
making their delicious little Christmas
cakes. of which they will tell you the
longer YOU keep, the better they are :
| Honey is excellent for use in baking
apples, gingerbread, cakes, cookies,
fancy breads and for use as spread on
bread. hot biscuits, waffles, pancakes,
gems. popoyers and toast; in making
preserves and canning fruit 1t is prac-
tically unexcelled as a sweetener. o..
Honey Improves Preserves.
There is. in fact, hardly any place
in baking, in putting up fruits and pre-
Iseryes where the flavor and quailty
are not improved by the use OF honey
A very good dressing for salads may
he made By substituting honey. Tor
sugar: this makes a swedish dressing
which is especially delicious for use
With fruit salads, a. the tang of tine
bonev Is pleasant innovation. 1t
may be used very effectively IN sahu,
witches. either dlout VI "tsA
bananas or other fruit; pudding sauce
made with honey and other ingredients
is particularly delectable. 1t is IN
fortunate that in many Households
honey is almost an unknown quantity
and seldom used in conjunction with
other ingredients in the preparation
Of food. -,
Efficacious for Ailments.
II must be remembered, in using
honey, that its acidity is about one-haiI
that of molasses and therefore ohiy
one-auarter of a teaspoonful OF SODA Is
reouired to one cup of honey to heu-
tralize the acid. Aside from its use as
n food or an adjuvant to food, honey
is recommended in certain old COOK
hooks as being efficacious for almost
every human ailment imaginable, rang
ing from boils and freckles to dlpn-
iberia and tapeworms. Its merits IN
this capacity are open to lnVes!l-
CATION, although no one can dispute us
soothing properties when mixed win
lemon Juice for use as cough syrup