What to do with a gallon of honey?

My wife and I very successful did a bunch of jelly canning using honey instead of sugar. Blueberries, raspberries, peaches, plums. It made the best jellies I’ve ever had, the honey flavor is a great accent.

Drizzle honey over a bowl of plain yogurt. Slice up some apples, thin slices are better, and dip into the yogurt-honey mixture. Eat.

(Don’t mix it all up; leave the honey as drizzles, so there is clear yogurt/honey definition.) It’s yummy.

Sexual experimentation!

Or you could make honey truffles. Your call.

How big is your family? A gallon of honey will glaze about 64 holiday hams.

You can wait till it’s really cold and dump it on someone’s car. A gallon should be enough for all the doors. Or you can wait till it’s summer and dump it on someone’s car. Flies and other bugs will be attracted to it. Make sure you get it all over their doors.

Also, this could get you in trouble and is not very nice. So do it to an enemy.

The holidays are coming up. I’d find a honey-rich recipe for something yummy, make a ton of it, and freeze it until the eating and giving season kicks in.

Honey-Garlic anything. Ribs, wings, you name it. Double the amount of scallions the recipe gives.

chug! chug! chug! chug! :slight_smile:

I’ll print out this entire thread and give it to SWMBO and let her decide. I think we can safely rule out pouring it over cars.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

You’re a honey :smiley: of a group.

This makes me sad. Think of all the work those bees put into making that honey. It would be like a slap in the face to all those bees. Do you really want to be slapping bees in the face?

My recipe calls for 5 quarts for a 5-gallon batch, but you could trim it back a bit, I suppose. I picked up the last supplies I needed to start a new batch this weekend. A friend has already supplied the honey, and has been demonstrating concern about the status of my current stockpile.

Anything you bake; substitute for the sugar. Bread recipes come out great. In oatmeal or grits in the morning along with fruit. Just a spoon for yourself - now and then.

A shovel, a convenient anthill, and someone who annoys you. I’m thinking of anyone from the iPhone ads…

Make fresh buttermilk biscuits, and then slather them in honey and eat them while they’re still warm!

My favorite suggestions were the biscuit one just above and the pouring into smaller containers and giving it as gifts to friends and family. You could even make up a label addressing how it was made from flowers on your property to make it even more special for the recipients.

“Honey truffle” sounds like one of them there sexual experiments.

Ideas not mentioned yet

Honey-Mustard
Honey-Buns

Moroccan Honey Chicken ! I don’t know if it’s authentically Moroccan or not, but it is delicious. Especially served with a pilaf that uses part orange juice and grated orange zest, and butter toasted pine nuts and almonds for crunch. Such sensual bliss in this food, it will lead to licking of fingers and then to more licking and then to that sexual experimentation stuff some other folk were mentioning.

Speaking of which, metheglin , a spiced and/or herbed form of mead, can have some very aphrodesiac effects. Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers has a section of mead and metheglin recipes.

Well, you could mail me some. Honey is getting quite expensive. Especially the real stuff from a beekeeper. I saw an 8 oz jar for $9.99.

I’ll second the PB&H Sandwiches. Especially if you make them in the morning, put them in a sandwich baggie and by lunch, the honey has soaked the bread and crystallized a bit.

There is also artifical honey?! I am scandalized.