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Homemade honey with nuts. Photo courtesy AppleTurnover.tv. Honey Nuts Cheerios, Chex, Shredded Wheat and Special K; honey nut peanut butter and honey-roasted nuts: Honey and nuts are a natural pairing. If you’ve got nuts and honey, you can take the duo one step further: Combine them into a delicious bread spread and dessert topping,…
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Try something from this list instead of sugar.Photo courtesy Domino Foods. Don’t want refined sugar in your recipe? Here are substitutes for 1/2 cup sugar: Agave syrup: 1/3 cup Barley malt extract: 1-1/2 cups Carrot juice: 1/2 cup Dried fruit purée: 1-1/4 cups Fruit: 2 cups Fruit juice: 1/2 cup Fruit juice concentrate: 1/2…
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If you love to bake but want to use less refined sugar, consider honey as a substitute. Here are tips on cooking with honey from Honey.com, the website of the National Honey Board, where you can find every type of recipe plus beekeepers in your area: SUBSTITUTING HONEY IN BAKING Honey helps enhance browning, so…
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Even though we stored our brown sugar in a supposedly airtight glass canister, it invariably became rock-hard in a few weeks, its natural high level of moisture evaporating into…well, who knows where it went? The old “Hints From Heloise” on how to soften brown sugar don’t work if you’re in a hurry. They include putting…
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What if there were a sweetener that was all natural, organic and delicious? Lower in calories? Better for you? And as a bonus, packaged in a fun enough way to be giftable? Refined sugars (such as table sugar) are stripped of nutrients; most noncaloric sweeteners are artificial. Sugar isn’t all that convenient when you’re trying…
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