Honey:Everyday Recipes for Cooking and Baking with Nature's Sweetest Secret Ingredient

by: Angelo Prosperi-Porta (Author)

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

Publication Date: 16 July 2015

Language: English

Print Length: 208 pages

ISBN-10: 1771511087

ISBN-13: 9781771511087

Book Description

Honey is a collection of recipes that showcase the sweet, rich, and sunny-colored delight made by nature’s hardest worker—the bee. You'll be surprised at how versatile honey really is.Honey is a natural whole food that can be used in many different dishes and enjoyed in a variety of ways—this book introduces you to the countless possibilities of nature's sweetest natural ingredient.Honey can be used to great effect to add moisture and color to breads and baked goods; enhance the texture and depth of flavor in sauces and preserves; provide balance and an unexpected counterpart to savory side and main dishes such as roasts and seafood; and add its trademark understated sweetness to confections and desserts.In addition to featuring general guidelines on how to substitute honey for white sugar in all kinds of dishes, Honey also offers a wealth of information about the key ingredient. You'll lea about why bees are so essential to our ecosystem, the most common varietals of honey and their characteristics, and how to use honey to create brines that enhance the savory flavor of meats before roasting, smoking, or barbecuing. And if that's not enough, you'll even lea how to make your own honey throat lozenges.Written by award-winning chef Angelo Prosperi–Porta, many of the recipes in Honey were inspired by the chef's Italian heritage, and his profound respect and admiration for bees.
Review Praise for Flavours of Cooper's Cove Guesthouse:"A feast for the eyes as well as the palate with over 200 recipes and accompanying photos."—Canadian Bookseller Magazine"Two hundred enticing 'real' recipes where the flavour of the food is not masked, but is enhanced with simple ingredients to maintain earthy, honest flavours." —EAT Magazine"I would buy this book just for the baking recipes, which include, among many others, Rosemary, Honey, and Comeal Scones, and the ultra yummy Chocolate Crescents." —The Times Colonist
About the Author
Angelo Prosperi-Porta has worked as a pastry chef at some of Weste Canada's best hotels and restaurants, and ran the pastry kitchen at the Delta Mountain Inn in Whistler. In 2001, he and his partner, Ina, opened Angelo’s Cooking School in at Cooper’s Cove Guesthouse in Victoria, BC.