Honey recipe

Orange Honey Syrup

 

This is a much healthier syrup then the usual sugar based syrups on your pancakes or waffles.  The zing of the orange make is very tasty.

Ingredients: 

• 1/2 cup unpasteurized pure honey
• Juice of one orange
• 1 tsp. orange peel, finely grated (optional)

Directions:

1. Mix ingredients together.
2. Serve on pancakes or waffles

Dandelion Flower Syrup

 

This is a great treat from your weeds and it is so easy to make.

Pick your dandelions before mowing the lawn or digging them up for dandelion coffee. Or go out into the country and pick them in the wild away from pollution. Never use ones that have been sprayed with weed killer. My hands get all yellow from the picking.

Dandelion Flower Syrup

Ingredients:

1 cup of dandelion flowers
1 cup water
1 cup honey
3 Tbsp lemon juice

Directions:

1. Wash the flowers and spin dry them like you would lettuce.
2. Cut their base to detach the yellow petals from the green leaves; you only want the petals as the green part is bitter. You can do this by hand but it is faster with a knife.
3. Place the flowers in a pot with 1 cup of water; I use filter water.
4. Mix well until all petals are covered.
5. Bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes.
6. Then simmer on very low heat for 25 minutes.*
7. Strain the liquid from the flowers into a second pot.
8. Add honey and stir till melted.
9. Now mix in lemon juice.

10. Let cool and store in a glass jar in the refrigerator; the honey acts like a preservative.

 * OR Out in a jar and put in the fridge overnight to steep like tea, bringing the flavours out of the flowers.

Peanut Butter Bliss Balls

This is one of those recipes that originated in my hippy days in the Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada. 

We had a variety of flavours of ‘Bliss Balls’; this was a favorite.  It did have lots of honey in it though which I reduced the quantity.  I did replace it with rice syrup but since have discovered it is not a good alternative due to it being full of toxins.  Also, it had wheat germ in it which I replaced to make it gluten free.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup honey
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3/4 cup coconut flour
• 1 cup toasted sunflower seeds
• 1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds (for rolling)
• 1/4 cup currants

Directions:

1. Blend honey and peanut butter.
2. Mix in remaining ingredients except sesame seeds.
3. Form into 1 inch balls.
4. Roll balls in sesame seeds.
5. Set on a plate or cookie sheet and let them form for 2 hours.
6. Then store in an airtight container, each layer on parchment paper, in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.