Recipes Using Honey
Bees Made Easy Glazes and Sauces

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Simply Sweet Honey Sauces

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Recipes using honey can be sweet, savory, spicy, fruity or even creamy. The possibilities are as limitless as our imaginations. Below we have started you out with a few of our all time favorite sweet recipes, next we list a few of our favorite savory, and then we finish up with recipes using honey for glazes.

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Savory Honey Sauces

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Do you have some special savory recipes using honey that you can share with everyone? Please share! We are always interested in new ways to enjoy our honey.

Want to get creative with sauce recipes using honey? Try mixing some wet ingredients maybe simmering them until combined. Then add your spices.

There is one recipe we use for grilled corn that has red pepper and cilantro in the recipe. The red pepper and the cilantro actually go on the grilled corn. Then you add melted butter and then drizzle with honey.

So keep in mind that not all recipes using honey have the spices cooked into the honey. Be creative, surprise yourself.

Honey Glaze Recipe

Does your mouth water every time you think of the taste of sweet crystallized honey sugar crusted ham against the salty cured taste?

Try this honey glaze recipe and then submit your own. This glaze claims to make left overs as good as the original dinner, and I agree!

Ingredients

• ½ cup mild honey such as clover or orange blossom
• 1½ tablespoons Toasted Spice Rub (see below)
• 1 apple wood-smoked or honey-cured, boneless, fully cooked ham, about 4 pounds

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325°F.

In a small bowl, stir together the honey and the spice mixture. With a sharp knife, make a series of cuts, ½ inch deep and ½ inch apart, the entire length of the ham. Rotate the ham 90 degrees and make a second series of cuts, the same depth and the same distance apart, across the width of the ham.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil and place the ham on the pan.

Bake, basting every 15 minutes with the honey mixture, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 150°F, 1 to 1¼ hours.

Remove the ham from the oven and let rest for 10 minutes.

Carve the ham across the grain into slices of desired thickness. Arrange on a platter and drizzle with any remaining honey mixture.

Spice Mixture: Toasting spices releases their aromatic oils, resulting in more complex flavors. Taste your chili powder, and if hot, use less than the recipe indicates.

• ¼ cup fennel seeds
• 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
• 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
• 1½ teaspoons red pepper flakes
• ¼ cup California chili powder
• 2 tablespoons finely ground sea salt, preferably gray salt
• 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

In a small, heavy skillet, combine the fennel seeds, coriander seeds, and peppercorns over medium heat. Watching carefully, toss the seeds frequently so that they toast evenly. When the fennel seeds turn light brown, work quickly. Turn on the exhaust fan, add the red pepper flakes, and toss, toss, toss, always under the fan. Immediately turn the spice mixture out onto a plate to cool. (They must be cool before grinding, or they will gum up the blender blades.)

Pour the cooled spices into a blender and add the chili powder, salt, and cinnamon. Process until the spices are finely and evenly ground. If you have a small spice mill or a coffee grinder dedicated to grinding spices, grind only the fennel, coriander, pepper, and red pepper flakes, then pour the ground spices into a bowl and toss with the remaining ingredients. Store in an airtight container away from light and heat for up to 4 months, or freeze for up to 1 year. Makes About 1 Cup

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