Honey Spice Bread Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What does honey do in bread baking? ›

Honey helps extend the shelf life of baked goods, which in particular is important for loaves of bread that need to stay fresh and moist. Honey is a humectant, a substance that prevents moisture transfer in bakery foods. Honey does not give up water easily; in fact, it collects moisture from the atmosphere.

If the recipe doesn't call for sugar for blooming the yeast, you can still add it. Adding 1 teaspoon of sugar to a recipe that doesn't call for it, for the purpose of feeding your yeast, won't affect the overall taste of the bread. Honey or agave syrup work too.

Honey works as well as sugar in most bread recipes, whether you're using it to proof the yeast or adding it as a sweetener. Unless you're baking a very sweet bread with more than a cup of honey in it, you won't need to adapt the recipe.

Spread vanilla Greek yogurt on your bread of choice, layer sliced bananas and chopped walnuts, then drizzle with Sue Bee® honey.

If you add too much honey, it can change the hydration of your sourdough bread. Honey is higher in fructose than sugar making it much sweeter. For this reason, when substituting, you'll need to reduce the amount of sugar you use to three quarters (¾) or even half (½) of the amount of honey used.

Honey is sweeter than sugar, so you need to use less. Decrease other liquids in the recipe by 1/4 cup, because there's water in the honey too. Lower the baking temperature by 25°F. Honey makes baked goods brown faster.

Honey is largely fructose and is therefore much sweeter than refined sugar. Depending on the honey, it can be two or three times sweeter than sugar. For every 1 cup of sugar, replace it with 1/2 to 2/3 cups of honey.

Pasteurized honey or bust

To be clear, wild honey — the kind you can find at farmer's markets and health food stores — is the honey that threatens your yeast. Wild, or raw, honey has been left completely natural, traveling from hive to jar with zero processing.

If the recipe does not include any other liquids, then add 2 tablespoons of flour to every 1 cup of honey to help soak up some of that extra moisture. Honey is more acidic than sugar, which can affect the taste as well as the rise of your baked goods.

Without sugar, moisture evaporates from bread during baking, creating a drier loaf. The more sugar you cut from a sweet yeast bread recipe, the more you'll notice this effect. But omit the 2 tablespoons of sugar in your sandwich bread recipe, and the change in moisture level is subtle at most.

Is bread with honey healthy? ›

Eating a piece of bread with honey for breakfast every day can be a healthy option as part of a balanced diet, as long as you are mindful of your overall calorie intake and dietary needs. Bread provides carbohydrates, which are a good source of energy for the body.

Sweetness: Honey is a natural sweetener, and when added to bread dough, it imparts a pleasant sweetness to the bread. The level of sweetness depends on the amount of honey used in the recipe.

Yes, dogs can have honey in small amounts as it's high in sugar. Honey provides antioxidants and can help with allergies in dogs. Some dogs may find the sweetness of honey overwhelming. Ensure honey is pure, without added sweeteners or xylitol, which is toxic to dogs.

Consuming two tablespoons of honey a day can offer health benefits such as antioxidants, better wound healing, and anti-inflammatory properties. A spoonful of honey (about 21 grams) has the following nutritional content: Energy: 64 kcal. Fructose (a type of carbohydrate): 8.6 grams.

Not at all, you shouldn't be feeding your cat honey. Cats don't have the correct enzymes to break down the sugars, and as you'll know, honey is seriously high in sugar. If a cat were to gulp huge amounts of honey, there's a high chance that gagging, regurgitation, vomiting and diarrhea will come as a result.

And then, there's the odd effect it can have on yeast in your bread-baking. Since it contains sugars, honey can work to feed your yeast, helping it produce the natural byproduct of carbon dioxide and alcohol.

This means that the water in honey contains more sugar than it should naturally hold. The overabundance of sugar makes honey unstable, and thus crystallizes over the pores of bread. Thus, it is natural for honey to crystallize since it is an over-saturated sugar solution.

Yes, honey works great as a replacement for sugar in yeast dough recipes. The major role of sugar in dough is to provide food for the yeast and honey more or less does the same thing.

Honey can be used in any recipe that calls for sugar including white sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, corn syrup. Follow the four tips below so you know just how much honey to use.