The Tar Heel Kitchen
Sweetness Of Honey
Adds To Meal Treats
By MISS E. YORK K1KER
Heritage Week will be observed again during April in North
Carolina. Honey is probably one of the first foods to come to
mind for recognition. The land flowing with milk and honey is
mentioned prominently in the Bible.
Honey is a natural, unrefined food—a delicately flavored,
golden syrup. It is unique because it is the only natural unmanufactured
sweet available in large quantities. Honey is no magic
food to cure all ailments regardless of what some people might
have you believe. Honey furnishes quick energy because it is
composed primarily of simple sugars which require little
digestive change for absorption. Small amounts of other food
nutrients are present also.
North Carolina beekeepers have updated the honey industry,
but the busy bees themselves must not be forgotten. Bees are
important for plant pollination and for making honey. It takes
approximately 556 worker bees flying 11/3 the distance around
the world to produce one pound of honey. The color and flavor
of honey varies with the source of nectar.
Color in honey varies from light to dark. Aroma and flavor
are due to the predominant floral source of the honey. Usually
the lighter honey has the more mild flavor and the darker has
the more strong flavor.
Generally speaking there are five types of honey on the
market today.
Liquid honey is extracted or separated from the comb.
Granulated or solid honey is partially or wholly solidified or
sugared. This is also referred to as candied, creamed or spread.
Comb honev is in the cells of the comb as stored by the bees.
Cut comb honey is in a comb cut into chunks about four inches
long and Vh inches wide.
Chunk honey is in combs which have been built in shallow
extracting frames. They are cut in various sized chunks that
will slip into tin pails or glass jars. The spaces between the
combs and around are filled with liquid honey.
Honey is served in numerous ways, but when included in
•ecipes requiring cooking, several tips should prove helpful,
lonev is handled a bit differently from regular sugar.
Substitute equal amounts of honey for sugar up to one cup.
Reduce total amount of other liquids by '/j cup per cup of honey
used. For best results, it is usually better to use a recipe
especially developed for honey.
Lower baking temperature 25 degrees to prevent
overbrowning when honey is substituted for sugar.
When using honey in cooking, moisten the measuring spoon
or cup first with water or oil, then measure the honey.
Honey, because of its hygroscopic quality, absorbs and
retains moisture keeping baked products fresh longer. Some
confections and frostings, if made with honey will remain soft
and take up additional moisture if the air is humid. This may or
may not be desirablei
Foods sweetened with honey will have a better flavor if kept
until the day after baking before serving.
Honey often crystallizes which does not affect taste or purity.
To bring honey back to its natural liquid state, place container
of honey in a pan of warm water until the crystals disappear.
Banana Popsickles
Firm ripe bananas
Popsickle sticks
Creamed honey or chilled strained honey
Chopped salted peanuts
Plastic bags.
Cut bananas in half crosswise. Insert popsickle stick in top.
Coat bananas with honey. Then roll in nuts. Freeze unwrapped,
until solid. Then store in plastic bags. Prepare in
quantity—teenagers go for them.
Honey And Cream Cheese Filling
3 tablespoons liquid honey
1 package 4-oz. cream cheese
Beat honey and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Spread on
bread or crackers. Chopped dried fruits, chopped nuts, chopped
or grated orange peel, or peanut butter may be added to honey
and cream cheese.
Honey Biscuits—Place r teaspoon each butter and honey in
bottom of buttered muffin pans. Add several pecan halves and
sprinkle with cinnamon, if desired. Place unbaked biscuits on
top. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 15 to 18 minutes. Let stand 1
min., invert pan.
Cinnamon Toast—Butter slices of bread. Spread thickly with
cinnamon flavored creamed honey. Cut slices in half. Broil until
hot, but do not scorch.
Strip Toast—Spread buttered bread with honey mixed with
bits of orange peel or coconut. Cut into strips. Broil until bubbly
hot, about 5 minutes.
Trailing Type Plants
Work Best In Baskets
There are many attractive
plants suitable for growing in a
hanging basket, but those of
drooping growth habit are the
most desirable, suggest North
Carolina State University
agricultural extension specialists.
In selecting plants for your
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basket, you may want to
consider dwarf, erect types to
place in the center of the basket
with larger, trailing types
placed about the sides.
These will spill their stems
over the sides and best display
their foliage and flowers.
Some plants to consider for
use in hanging baskets include
the following, although practically
any plant that you grow in
your summer flower bed is a
candidate.
Ivy, geranium (peltatum).
ordinary garden geranium,
fuchsia, marguerite (c. frutescens,
Patis daisy), ageratum,
sweet alyssum (lobularia),
vinca major variegata (a
trailing type of periwinkle),
nepeta hederacea variegata,
(ground ivy), lobelia, petunia,
heliotrope, nasturtium, phlox
drummond (annual phlox),
verbena and Boston fern.
Baskets made of galvanized
wire are the most popular
types. Line them with a thick
layer of sphagnum moss and All
with good soil and place your
plants in them. Keep moist at
all times. One method of
watering is to dip the basket
into a container of water and
allow the excess to drain off.
Fertilize with a complete
fertilizer, perhaps a high
analysis such as a 20-20 20. This
should not be used in heavy
applications. It can also be used
on pot plants and other
ornamentals for quick response.
Just be careful and
don't use too much.
EYESORE BECOMES SHOWPLACE—Not many months
ago the office of the late Dr. T. J. Holt in Wise was rapidly
falling into ruin. Now, thanks to efforts of the Wise-Paschall
Ruritan Club, a major overhaul of the doctor's offke is ntaring
completion. The building sits just a few feet from the shoulder
of U. S. 1 which cuts through the town. Ruritans used a yellow
and white color scheme in refinishing the old quarters.
[Staff Photo]
Beginners Day To Be Held At Warren Academy
beginner Day will be held at
Warren Academy on Tuesday.
April 26, from 10 a. m. until
11:30 a. m. All children who will
enter kindergarten in September
are invited to come with
their parents to this special
"Open House," which will be
held in the kindergarten
classroom. Refreshments will
be served upon arriving, and
activities for the prospective
kindergarten children will be
conducted by Mr.s. Julius
Banzet, III, kindergarten teacher.
Mrs. Bob Traylor, first grade
teacher, will conduct activities
with children who will enter the
first grade in September and
are not presently enrolled in
Warren Academy's kindergar
ten.
Headmaster, B. L. King, will
give the parents a tour of the
building, library, gym, and
grounds and will answer any
questions regarding books and
schedules. Each family will
receive WarreD Academy's
Kindergarten Handbook which
includes the philosophy, objectives,
schedule, and activitie^of
the kindergarten. Reading and
math series books and
workbooks will be on display,
and the teachers will be happy
to discuss the different
programs and studies taught in
these grades.
All children of age are invited
to attend this special Beginner
Day.
Honor Rolls Listed |
Hawkins
The principal and the (acuity
of Hawkins Jr. High School
announce the honor roll for the
third nine weeks' grading
period as follows:
Seventh grade: Tony Ayscue,
Margaret Foster, Maggie
King, Bill Perkinson and David
Richardson.
Eighth Grade: Gretchen Aycock,
Ronnie Booth, Sylvia
Carroll, Alan Fitt, James
Fleming, Thomas Fleming,
Diane Francisco, Alice Hawkins,
Glenda Hawkins, Isabell
Marks, Jan Jordan, Dale
Majors, Scott O'Neal, and
Tammy Roberts.
Ninth Grade: Tina Brown,
Arnecha Copeland, Joanne
Edwards, William Hawkins,
Joyce Lynch. Carolyn Richardson,
Priscilla Richardson, Gayle
Rodwell, and Josephine West.
North Warren
W. L. Rose, principal of the
North Warren Middle School
announces the honor rolls for
the third reporting period as
follows:
Fourth Grade: Wayne Durham.
John Russell, Daniel
Carter, Kathy Cooper, Carol
Phillips, Joel Valentine and
Pamela White.
Fifth Grade: Harold Stegall,
Veronica Terry, Lynne Overby,
Cheryl Seward and Stjcey
Lawhorne.
Sixth Grade: Delia Edwjfrds,
Quinton Hargrove, Aiftela
Jordan, Gary Paynter, Djpiae
Bullock and Dale Perry. |
Seventh Grade: David
chall and Linda Mynck. S
Eighth Grade: Audrey Jul
lock, Teresa Dickerson, SBsan
Currie, Major Evans, lfery
Durham, and Allen WalkaE.
Hargrove Participcttes
Army Private Curtqf L.
Hargrove, son of Mr. and-Jirs.
John Durham of Ma^jon,
recently participated ii^the
Army Training and Evaltf£ion
Program at the MoneMels
Army Training Center, Germany.
He and other members dfthe
1st Armored Division mere
evaluated in combat readiness,
maneuvers, airlift capahjity
and operability of equipment
and techniques.
The private, a moftar
specialists, entered the A9my
in April 1976.
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