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From: Katrina
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 5:27 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: leatherwood honey cookies
Hi Uncle, I enjoy your column, I think this may be my first request but I
have tried things you've found and published, and learned a lot. Thanks!
There was a recipe on the bottle of Leatherwood Honey from Tasmania long
ago--it was a simple recipe, no spices as I recall--used only a couple of
Tablespoons of the honey and the flavor came through beautifully.
The honey now comes in cans (easy to find) but no recipes.
tasmanianhoney.com
I can't find a similar recipe that uses a small amount of honey like that
one did.
Thanks for any help you can find.
Katrina
Hi Katrina,
Your request brings up several issues:
The first is that leatherwood honey is a type of honey made (by bees, of
course) from the nectar of leatherwood tree flowers. It's not necessarily a
brand, and it's all from Tasmania, because it seems that's the only place
that leatherwood trees grow. It's sold under several different brands.
The website you give is for just one of those brands. I'm going to assume
that you are sure that this company is the brand that had the recipe on
their jar. Apparently this one company has registered the trademark
"Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey": Tasmanian Honey
But, see all these other brands of leatherwood honey from Tasmania:
Leatherwood Honey
Blue Hills Honey
Heritage Honey
Heathmont Honey
The second issue is that, if you go to that "Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey"
website, enter it, and click on "Our Products", you'll see that they still
sell their honey in glass jars as well as cans. I've no idea if the recipe
is still on the jars.
It's very difficult to find a recipe that was on a jar or a can or a package
of something because, when people post such a recipe on the Internet, they
don't say "this recipe is from the Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey Jar."
So, what I did first was to go to the company's website. In the case of
"Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey", they don't have any recipes on their website.
The next thing that I did was to go to Google Images and do a search on
"leatherwood honey". This brought up images of the jars and cans. Once in a
while, but not often, you can find an image of the back, as well as the
front, of the jar in this way. No such luck in this case. The next thing was
to search for recipes for "leatherwood honey cookies." That was the best search
term I had, because you didn't say what kind of cookies they were or give any
other ingredients, just that they contained a small amount of leatherwood honey.
Using that search term, and all the variations that I could think of, I
found only three cookie recipes that specifically called for "leatherwood honey":
Walnut Shortbread
Ginger and Leatherwood Honey Cookies
I found the below recipe for "Leatherwood Honey Cookies," although it calls
for 120 grams of honey, which seems like more than you suggest. I did not
find any recipe that gave any indication that it was from the jar of any
brand of leatherwood honey.
Hopefully, one of these is the recipe you want. If not, then the only other
way I know to pursue it would be to write to the Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey
Company and ask them for it. If you click on "contact us" on their website,
you can get their mailing address and phone numbers. The e-mail given is:
admin@tasmanianhoney.com
I will also post this on my site. I have many Australian readers, so perhaps
one of them has the recipe and will send it.
Phaed
Leatherwood Honey Cookies
Ingredients:
120g Leatherwood honey (or other strong type of honey)
30g butter
50g brown sugar
1 egg
1 pinch cinnamon
100g ground hazelnuts
50g whole hazelnuts
250g flour
1 tsp baking powder
Preparation:
Melt the butter with the honey slowly. Mix the flour with the baking powder.
Egg, sugar and cinnamon add the honey and butter mixture until smooth.
Add flour and ground hazelnuts. Whole hazelnuts coarsely chop and mix.
shaping the dough into a vigorous roll and cut into finger-thick slices.
Gently press flat with the palm of your hand and place on a lined baking
tray.
Bake at 180 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.
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Hi Phaedrus,
Thanks again for your help. Here is how I found the recipe.
I googled images for the Leatherwood Honey and remembered the one that I
found the recipe on. It wasn't on their website, but I emailed the company and
received the recipe right away.
Here it is (for your interest, if you are interested)
Please find below the recipe for honey cookie biscuits
Leatherwood Biscuits
1/4 lb butter,
1 egg
Pinch salt
1/2 lb sugar
2 cups Self raising flour
1 tablespoon Leatherwood Honey
1 tablespoon desiccated coconut
Cream butter and sugar, add egg and honey.
Fold in flour with salt.
Lastly add coconut until mixture is stiff
Place one teaspoon mixture rolled into balls on greased tray.
Flatten with work in moderate oven for 5-7 minutes
Makes approx. 3 dozen
Thanks again. Katrina
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Subject: Leatherwood Honey
From: Hayden
Date: 5/27/2020, 1:22 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
On 5/27/2020 12:48 PM, Hayden wrote:
Dear Phaedrus
Could you recommend a suitable substitute for Leatherwood Homey?
I am asking since the “Leatherwood Honey Cookies” on your website
sound fabulous.
To digress and brag about Jungle Jim’s here in Cincinnati, they have multiple
acres of International Food at both their locations. They have a South Pacific
area several aisles large. I certainly want to shop there for it; fantastic
experience. For example, often, one sees people carrying around a stalk or two
of sugar cane as the shop. It looks too big to go into a cart. They have whole
octopi, whole salmon, whole many fishes fresh on ice. There are 100 gallon(?)
tanks of live tilapia and striped bass, live lobsters, crabs, mussels, oysters,
etc. Their fish department has a huge (very huge) yacht and a battleship’s anchor
and bell. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The British Isles department has
Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood and Little John about 12 feet over your head
covering about 25-30 feet of ceiling space -life-size trees and models posed there.
The fresh produce department is possibly over an acre (seriously). The coffee bean
jars have an entire 2-story tall shelf about 10-15 feet long (200 varieties?) plus
a few skids of 50 lb.(?) burlap bags of coffee sitting around. There are life-size
animatronic characters coming to life performing music at times. (An Elvis lion is
the oldest. General Mills Honey Nut Bee Band and overhead swinging and talking
Campbells Soup cans are newer). The olive department and cheese department
each are simply huge. You should imagine the great deals you find on sale products.
There is much more. This is at the original location north of Cincinnati in Fairfield.
Location #2 is in the Eastgate area; somewhat smaller, though still huge. So many
employees available to answer anything at all.
Their South Pacific section may carry leatherwood honey. If not, what would make a
suitable substitute? Could you say?
Thank you,
Hayden
Hello Hayden,
I did a bit of research, and the only other kind of honey that is mentioned as being similar is
"ulmo honey" from Chile and Argentina. Leatherwood honey has a very distinctive, strong taste,
being made by bees from the nectar of leatherwood tree that is found only in Tasmania. You can
buy it on the Internet, and you can get Ulmo honey on the Internet, too, if you can't find it
in a specialty shop near you (Amazon has both). Ulmo honey is also made by bees from the nectar
of a particular tree that grows in South America. You aren't likely to find any substitutes
among domestic American honeys.
Phaed
From: dave
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:40 PM
To: Phaedrus
Subject: taco tienda 1960s
blackstone av. fresno meat filling for their tacos
thanks dave
Hi Dave,
Sorry, no success with this recipe. Taco Tienda Drive-In at the southwest corner of Blackstone and Clinton avenues
was owned by Virgil and Mary Wattenbarger from 1957 to 1968, according to information from Fresno city directories.
Phaed
A Michigan Dutch Recipe.
Old Lady Cake (Oude Dame Koek)
2 TBSP butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup molasses
1-1/2 tsp anise seed, crushed
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1-1/2 cups sour milk
Cream butter and sugar together. Add egg, molasses and anise seed and beat thoroughly.
Sift flour, baking powder, soda, salt, and spices together 3 times. Add dry ingredients
and milk alternately to creamed mixture. Bake in greased tube pan in a slow oven (300° F.)
45 minutes. Makes 1 (9-inch cake). Traditionally a Christmas cake.
("The United States Regional Cookbook" edited by Ruth Berolzheimer - 1947)
A Wisconsin Dutch recipe.
Heavenly Torte (Himmeltorte)
1-1/2 cups butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
4 egg yolks
1 tsp grated lemon rind
4 cups sifted flour
1 egg white, unbeaten
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Cream butter and sugar, add salt and egg yolks 1 at a time and beat until smooth after each.
Add lemon rind and flour. Pat dough into 3 oblong pans, spread the top of each with the mixture of
unbeaten egg white, sugar, cinnamon, and pecans. Bake in a very hot oven (450° F) for 10 minutes,
then reduce heat to 350° F and bake until done. When torte is cold spread raspberry jam and
Himmel Torte filling on 2 layers and cover all with remaining filling. Makes 3 layers 7 x 11.
Himmel Torte Filling
4 TBSP sugar
1 TBSP cornstarch
2 egg yolk, beaten
2 cup thick sour cream
1 tsp lemon or orange extract
1/2 tsp vanilla
Mix sugar and cornstarch together and add to egg yolk. Stir in cream and cook over water until it
coats the spoon. Add flavoring.
("The United States Regional Cookbook" edited by Ruth Berolzheimer - 1947)
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