I likes me some honey, and it is a very minor dream of mine to one day have the pleasure of sampling some actual real honeycomb full of honey.
Peanut butter and honey sandwiches eaten over the sink, hot toast with butter and honey, cold bread with butter and honey, but not in hot beverages, tastes weird and burned, oatmeal with honey, Yup I’m there. Crystalized honey? Delicious snack! Mead is ok, but woo boy be careful drinking it (my bil makes mead and keeps bees, his mead is smooth and powerful because it is so delicious).
But as much as I like honey and prefer it over other sugars, I only indulge occasionally as I tend to go over board.
I very rarely buy honey in bears any more and always read the ingredients list, cause if it has an ingredients list is not real honey, something Ive seen mostly on the bear shaped bottles.
I made my one and only honey “discovery” last weekend. I have been using a really nice orange blossom honey that comes in a tall, narrow jar. Usually I just thinly drizzle it straight from the jar onto the buttered toast or muffin and don’t spread it with the knife. While waiting for the muffin to toast I realised that if I put the butter in the jar and whipped it into the honey it would be easier to get the last of it out. And only one spreading required.
My mother used to make “honey butter” by mixing honey and butter in a jar and using it as a spread. I don’t recall the proportions, but it was really good.
Personally, the only thing I use honey for is to drizzle a bit into a jar of peanut butter and eat them together with a spoon. The sweetness of the honey goes well with the PB.
I’m jealous. I enjoy mead one a year at our local RenFaire but when I looked for it at Total Wines the only offering was the same brand the Faire used (Chaucer) and was $25 for a smaller than standard bottle. I figure there’s got to be a better brand than Chaucer, so I declined to buy it.
Oh there’s tons of mead out there now, but mostly smaller outfits IME. Some do mail-order. I’ve ordered from these folks: http://enlightenmentwines.com/
Yeah no it’s bogus woo. People buying our honey always ask about it and I tell them that even if it were true, most people are allergic to pollen from plants that bees don’t visit.
I eat it occasionally. I often sweeten tea with it (although I don’t drink tea at home all that often). And hot water with honey and lemon is a great home remedy for sore throats and congestion. But it’s not an everyday thing.
I always try to buy my honey from a vendor at the farmer’s market. He’s got several different varieties. Star thistle is my favorite. But he’s also got clover, a general wildflower one, and of course since this is California he has orange blossom.
Don’t use it that much. I have a regular, free supply, as my MIL lives out in rural Indiana and keeps bees. She used to bring us a jar every time she came to visit, but she quickly realized we were just stacking them up it in the cupboard.
I recently discovered Tupelo honey. It’s made specifically from nectar from the Tupelo gum tree blossoms, which grow along the Chipola and Apalachicola rivers of northwest Florida. It has a wonderfully unique flavor and won’t granulate. If you’re going to buy some, I’d stay away from Amazon, as much of what is sold there is not the real deal, being cut with corn syrup and the like. I buy mine from Lanier & Sons, who have been doing this for over 100 years.
Aside from using a little in drinks and things, I never really know what to do with it. Which is unfortunate, as I keep bees, and kinda need to use up the honey I have, because I’m planning on harvesting what will probably be another 30-40lb on Sunday.
Could try mead, but I’m open to other suggestions for what to do with about 2-3lb of crystallised honey.
Rarely. I keep a bottle around for recipes (salad dressing, wing glaze) but I tend to no care for the end results, too sweet. The bear bottle I have is probably at least 5 years old.
I usually have two or three flavors of locally produced raw honey on hand. At the moment I have wildflower and star thistle. I just finished off the jar of buckwheat…so dark and yummy!
I love it on stuff like cornbread and biscuits. I will mix some into some peanut butter and eat it just like that. Sometimes I just eat it out of the jar.
I like honey, I just rarely eat it. I especially like basswood honey and have a goal to try sourwood honey. Sourwood isn’t local so I’d have to order it online. But because I have a ton of maple syrup available, I haven’t been able to justify ordering up a fancy honey.