Honey

Honey is a sweet, thick fluid collected from the hives of honey bees. Bees sip the nectar from flowers then return to the hive where the nectar is regurgitated and stored as honey, a food for the hive during the winter months. Honey takes on the flavor of the nectar from the flowers from which it is collected.

You can buy honey in liquid form (referred to as runny honey in the U.K.) or spun which is actually the honey with bits of comb incorporated. Spun honey is thicker and whitish in color rather than amber.  Much of the honey being sold today is being produced in China.  You can also purchase honey still in the honeycomb. 

For 1 cup honey substitute:
1 cup molasses OR
1 cup light or dark corn syrup
1 cup maple syrup

16 oz jar of honey = 1 1/3 cups