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Tasty Trivia!
Bees make honey by collecting nectar from flowers. They pass the nectar between bees and place inside the hexagonal cell made from wax (the honeycomb) to break down into simple sugars (by adding bee enzymes) that is stored inside the comb.
Honey is dried in the hive by bees flapping their wings and then capped with wax for storage.
Honey's flavor and color change based on the nectar collected by the bees.
A healthy hive will produce about 65 pounds of honey per year.
To harvest honey, beekeepers scrape a wax seal off the honeycombs.
A typical bee produces about 1/12 teaspoon of honey during its life!
Honey tastes slightly sweeter than sugar
Reduce the amount of liquid in the recipe by 1/4 cup, add 1/2 tsp of baking soda, and reduce the oven temperature by 25 degrees F and substitute your sugar with honey!
1 cup of sugar = 1 cup of honey
1 cup of brown sugar = 3/4 cup honey