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The BiG Story
Weighing In On
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For You,
My Sweet Tooth
Elizabeth Applebaum
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f you're looking for a sweet new
treat to try at Rosh Hashanah,
here are some terrific ideas that
use everybody's favorite holiday
food, honey.
#1) Honey Shake It Up
(courtesy National
Honey Board)
1-1/2 cups milk
1-1/2 cups sliced
strawberries
1 cup vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup honey
5 ice cubes
Combine all ingredients, except
ice cubes, in blender until thick
and creamy. Add ice cubes one at
a time and blend until smooth.
#2) Super Fast Honey Snack
(courtesy National Honey Board)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup honey
Blend together and use as a dip
for carrot and celery sticks, or
pear and apple slices.
#3) Honey Make My Morniri'g
Muffins
(courtesy the National Honey
Board)
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1 egg, beaten
2-1/2 cups buttermilk baking
mix (biscuit mix)
In medium bowl, mix milk, honey
and beaten egg. Add baking mix
and stir until moistened. Spoon
into greased muffin tins. Bake at
400 degrees for 18-20 minutes.
Makes 10-12 muffins.
#4) Flavored Honey
For a fun new treat at your Rosh
Hashanah table, try serving home-
made flavored honeys. You can
mix up a batch of 10 different
kinds and place in pretty bowls.
Most flavors will be tasty on both
bread and apples.
The amount of flavoring you use
will vary according to taste, but as
a rule you should
start small so the fla-
vor complements,
rather than over-
comes, the taste of
the honey. Try start-
ing with 1 teaspoon
flavoring to one-half
cup of honey.
Some foods you may want to try
mixing with honey:
rosemary
chocolate syrup
fresh basil
almond or vanilla extract
orange juice concentrate
strawberry jam
lemon peel
fresh spearmint
cinnamon
maple syrup
mango juice
creamed avocado
#5) Drinking Israel
No doubt you've heard Israel
referred to as the Land of Milk and
Honey (which comes from the
Torah, Exodus 3:8). But did you
know it's also a tasty drink?
Warm milk mixed with a little
honey (d'vash, in Hebrew) is not
only delicious, it's great for sooth-
ing sore throats, for warming you
on a chilly evening, or for helping
you relax after a long, hard day.
B
eautiful baby Brooke
Wylin of Pontiac has this
bit of vital information for
new moms and dads:
Never give honey to an
infant.
Honey may contain bacterial
spores that can cause infant
botulism, a rare but serious dis-
ease affecting the nervous sys-
tem of babies under 1 year
old.
Honey's Jewish Connection
Did you know...
The honey cited in the Torah is not the honey we know today.
Instead, it was a thick syrup, most likely made from dates.
He-man Samson dined on honey at his wedding to Timnah.
*Bees, of course, cannot be eaten as kosher. So how is it that their
bbney can? The rabbis ruled that because bees only store honey in
their bodies, rather than actually produce it themselves, it is not treife.
:
During the Middle Ages, children were taught the Hebrew alpha
:;bet using drops of honey, which were placed atop letters written on a
'Slate. As a child learned, he was allowed to lick the honey so that
the words of the Torah might to him be "as sweet as honey."
Despite its name as the "land of milk and honey Israel actually
.0oduces very little honey.
Flower Power
oney bees communicate by
dancing, which tells the
workers where to find nec-
tar.
This poor bee, though, has no
friends. Can you help her find her
way to the flower?
(Courtesy the National Honey
Board)