Tupelo Glazed Carrots

📝 Notes: Also known as: Cracker Glazed Carrots · Miz Kathi's Tupelo Carrots The concept: Classic: brown-sugar glazed carrots. Vector: Substitution (tupelo honey replaces brown sugar). Tupelo's floral, slow-crystallizing sweetness gives a cleaner glaze and a legitimate provenance story guests recognize by name. Hero ingredient: Real tupelo honey (White Oak Pond-region, not a generic honey blend). Verify the label before buying, most "tupelo honey" on shelf is cut. Plating: Mound in a bowl, glaze pooled underneath, parsley fleck on top. Pro upgrade: finish with a few flakes of Maldon salt against the sweetness for a Magnolia Room plated version. Prep efficiency: carrots can be blanched ahead and finished to order in butter and honey in under 5 minutes. Cross-utilization: same cut and technique as the house Glazed Carrots recipe; this is a straight honey swap, no new equipment or training. Failure modes: tupelo honey burns and turns bitter faster than brown sugar syrup, so pull the pan the moment the glaze coats, don't chase a deeper color. Scaling: At 4x: reduce time by nothing, because honey reduction time is per-batch-surface-area, not linear with volume; use two pans instead of one deep one. At 10x: same logic, three pans minimum or the bottom layer breaks before the top glazes.