Any Home Bakers Here?

[fuzzi]

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Someone took a sample...

 

[jnicholes]

Someone took a sample...

That would be my mother. Every time I bake something I pay my mother what I call “The Food Tax.”

She always takes samples of what I cook.

 

[fuzzi]

Bread just came out of the oven. I tweaked it a little, we'll see what happens. The recipe calls for 14 cups of bread flour, and last time I substituted 3 cups of rye flour, and honey for sugar. It came out moist, and denser. Today I substituted 4 cups of rye flour, honey for sugar again.

 

[Sally PB]

That would be my mother. Every time I bake something I pay my mother what I call “The Food Tax.”

Freya expects "kitchen tax" when we get our meals. Or a cup of coffee or tea.

 

[Sally PB]

Since we now have our own honey, I'm going to be subbing it in for sugar when I bake. I already use honey for sweetening yogurt and when I make grownies. I might do half sugar/half honey for the first try on something new.

I want to "retrain" my kombucha SCOBYs to work with honey. That will take several batches.

 

[BullChick]

I am sharing because someone might be wondering how to substitute.

 

[Sally PB]

@BullChick, for the larger amounts of honey, do you need to cut back on any of the other liquid in the recipe?

 

[Sally PB]

I found these hints for swapping out sugar for honey.

 

[BullChick]

That is interesting. I have never used more than half a cup of honey, and have never used less of the other liquids. The same applies when I am substituting sugar for honey.

 

[fuzzi]

I am sharing because someone might be wondering how to substitute.
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Thank you!

I had checked my Joy of Cooking so I knew that I had to use less honey than the 1/4 cup of sugar called for in my bread recipe. I used just a little less than 1/4 cup, and the bread is moist and delicious.