Low carb honey recipe anyone?

[Rio]

Hi, somewhere on a site is the honey recipe I think you use polyd and food coloring to get it golden.Does anyone have it or one that works? I have looked everywhere???Thanks a ton.

[scott123]

Rio, the recipe exists, just not on this site

Here it is:

2 C. polyd
1 C. minus 1 T. water

Honey flavoring*
Combination of sweeteners:

1/2 C. erythritol
1 C. sweetening equivalent of liquid splenda
1 T. equivalent of ace k or a good stevia**

2 drops each of yellow/red food coloring
1 drop blue


Stir polyd into water. Add sweeteners. Bring to a boil, making sure polyd is dissolved. Let cool. In separate bowl, combine food coloring. Add a drop or two to the syrup. Mix thoroughly. Chill. Will keep for 5 weeks (probably more) in the fridge.

*Different brands of honey flavoring have different intensities, so the honey flavoring in this is 'to taste'. Honey flavoring is very strong, so you'll want to go drop by drop. The quality of the flavoring is key. Good flavoring = good honey. From what I understand, a lot of the Nature's Flavor's extracts are hit and miss, but the honey flavoring is good.

**Since honey is so sweet, if you don't use a good combination of sweeteners, the aftertaste will be glaring. This might be one of those rare instances where 4 sweeteners are necessary (ace k and stevia). If you have both, let me know and I'll reformulate the sweetening mix to compensate for the synergy.

Variation: A drop or two of orange extract (not much) to give the honey a slight orange note for orange blossom honey.

The first time you make this, I'd recommend making a third of a batch and then splitting that into thirds adding varying amounts of honey extract to each to ascertain how much honey flavoring you prefer.

[Rio]

You came through again scott

Thanks Scott, you helped again. I checked all my sites but with no luck. Glad you saw the request.

[2big4mysize]

hey scot is this better then the commercial low carb honeys out there?

[scott123]

Rio, you're welcome. Let us know how the honey turns out.

2big, of the people that I've spoken to that have made this honey, the reviews have been quite positive. Even though it's my recipe, I have yet to obtain the honey flavoring for it, so I haven't tried it yet. I posted the recipe after I perfected a lc, non-SA polyd based corn syrup that matches the texture of honey to a 'T.' The addition of the honey flavoring was only a logical next step.

As far as it being better than the commercial stuff... that's a tough call. Ultimately we're talking about some kind of syrup (mine's polyd, their's is maltitol) combined with honey flavoring. I don't think the commercial outfits have access to any honey flavoring that we can't purchase from one of the flavoring sources. I'm relatively certain that the quality of the commercial stuff can be matched, but due to the constraints of the quality of flavorings, I don't think they'll be improved upon.

The two major brands of honey do have their faults, though. Besides being made with maltitol syrup, Honeytree has a strange perfumey kind of taste, and with Steele's, although the intensity of their flavoring has improved, I still find it a little on the weak side. It's possible that homemade honey could work around these issues. We shall see

[Rio]

Can't find the honey flavoring

I have done the search and can't find what I need to flavor it. Any ideas where to get it? thanks

[scott123]

These seem to be the two most popular honey flavorings:

https://www.naturesflavors.com

https://www.lorannoils.com