Do you bake with honey?

[Pinky Tuscadero]

I have been using up a giant jar of not-raw honey in my baking. It's almost gone and I'm wondering if I should buy more for use in baking. I use raw honey for smoothies but it's awfully expensive to be baking with. Does anyone bake with raw honey or is that just a waste? Would I be ok just getting some more organic honey for baking?
Thanks for your opinions!

[momto l&a]

I use whatever hit my fancy at the time

I have a gallon of raw honey that used every morning for tea, kept on hand for treating burns,baking bread and whatever.

I also use sucant for baking, it does burn easily, and is not as sweet as proccessed sugar.

I am not too good at firguring out how much honey to put in a recipe though in place of sugar. Honey is so sweet.

[tboroson]

I use pasteurized honey for anything I'll be cooking. Just like, if I'm using a pint of cream to make a cream soup, I'll buy pasteurized (though not UHT) cream. Why waste the money on the good stuff when I'll be cooking it anyway?

[Panserbjorne]

I use raw honey exclusively. Even if I'm gonna bake with it I feel better knowing that it was intact when I started. Silly, I know.

[RAF]

I bake with honey. I am not sure if it is really raw or not, but supposedly it is. It is good quality honey, but it looks really filtered, so I wonder wether it was heated or not. I have baked with truly raw honey too, but not often, as I feel bad about it when I do.

[saratc]

I use almost exclusively raw unfiltered honey for baking. That's about the only sweetener that will not cause mood swings in DH (he's bipolar). I don't think it's all wasted to bake with raw honey since mostly I'm making sweets like cookies, which only bake for 12 minutes. A lot of pasteurized honey is cooked for 30 minutes. I also use my raw honey in homemade ice cream, which doesn't get cooked. I find that I only need about 1/2 the amount of honey vs sugar in a recipe. Sometimes I will also substitute part of it with stevia, especially in recipes that can't stand to have too much extra liquid.

[BeagleMommy]

In my experience, if you can find a local beekeeper you may be surprised to find very little or no price difference between "real" and processed. Sam's Club is still cheaper, but they are a hour away and the honey farm is about 20 minutes away. We have to drive out to the guy's house to get the honey, but since it never goes bad, we buy by the case to save a bit more. It's really much more flavorful than the storebought stuff- unless you are into the specific type of honey like orange blossom, etc.

[Panserbjorne]

Love your local keepers of bees!

[mrsbernstein]

Firefaery,

I don't think it's silly at all. I use RAW honey for EVERYTHING!

And we keep several different honies in the house at all times. We have Menuka honey for colds, cuts and healing; raw honey without comb for cooking and me; adn honey with comb for husband.

Mrs Bernstein

[aprilibarra]

honey rocks. Its great for baking. I make a breakfast bread with a whole oats and fruit and it turns out well. The only thing that honey can be difficult for is`anything cold, it doesn't dissolve and sometimes turns plain hard. my kids love it on plain whole yogurt.
If you can get it, get raw and even better if local. dh really saw a difference in his terrible allergies. its not as cheap as sugar, but it has anti-microbial functions that kill bacteria that causes tooth decay. of course, this is ruined in pstrzation.