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Infusions
Fire Honey
Dried chilies and garlic steeped slowly in raw honey. Two weeks of patience, then it goes on everything: pizza, fried chicken, roasted carrots, sharp cheese.
Infusions
Ginger Honey
Thin coins of fresh ginger left in honey until it turns sharp and warming. A spoonful in hot water is the whole recipe for a cold evening.
Drinks
Honey, Lemon & Thyme Tea
Fresh thyme steeped in hot water with lemon and a light floral honey. Bright, herbal, and quietly restorative.
Breakfast
Warm Oats with Honey & Apples
Steel-cut or rolled oats, apples softened in the pot, and a ribbon of honey at the end. Autumn mornings.
Home
Beeswax & Honey Lip Balm
A small-batch balm from beeswax, a little oil and a touch of honey. Makes a handful of tins — good for giving away.
Sauces + Condiments
Whipped Honey Butter
Soft butter beaten with honey and salt until it is pale and light. Keep it on the counter and it will disappear onto everything.
Sauces + Condiments
3-Minute Honey-Shallot Vinaigrette
Minced shallot softened in vinegar, then honey and mustard to hold it together. The dressing that makes you eat more salad.
Sauces + Condiments
Fermented Garlic Honey
Peeled garlic under raw honey, left alone for a month. The honey thins and turns savory; the cloves go mellow and syrupy.
Dessert
Skillet Sourdough Cornbread with Salted Honey
Cornbread baked in a screaming-hot cast iron pan so the edges fry, then flooded with honey and flaky salt while still warm.
Dinner
Roasted Carrots with Cumin & Wildflower Honey
Whole carrots roasted until blistered, tossed with toasted cumin and honey. Sweet, earthy, and better the longer they sit in the pan.
Beauty + Body
Honey & Brown Sugar Lip Polish
Two spoons of pantry ingredients that make a soft scrub for winter lips. Makes enough for a small tin.
Beauty + Body
Chamomile-Honey Bath Soak
Dried chamomile, epsom salts and honey stirred into a hot bath. It smells like a field at the end of the day.
Infusions
Herbal Honey Oxymel
An old herbalist's preparation: equal parts raw honey and cider vinegar, with woody herbs steeping for a month. Sharp, sweet, taken by the spoon or stirred into water.
Infusions
Fire Cider
Horseradish, ginger, garlic, onion and hot chili packed into a jar and drowned in raw cider vinegar. A month later you strain it, sweeten it with raw honey, and it bites back.
Infusions
Vanilla Bean Honey
A split vanilla bean and a light honey. In a week it tastes like the inside of a bakery.
Drinks
Honey Lemonade with Mint
Lemonade sweetened with honey instead of sugar has more depth and a softer edge. Use a light honey so the lemon stays bright.
Dessert
Lavender Honey Shortbread
Buttery shortbread sweetened partly with honey, with just enough lavender to notice. Delicate, a little floral, very good with tea.
Beauty + Body
Honey & Oat Face Mask
A gentle, traditional preparation: raw honey mixed with finely ground oats. Honey has been used on skin for thousands of years; this is a simple, pleasant way to try it.
Beauty + Body
Honey & Coconut Hair Mask
Warm honey loosened with coconut oil, worked through the ends of hair before a shower. A traditional softening treatment in many cultures.
Drinks
Honey Bee's Knees
A Prohibition-era gin sour where honey does the sweetening. Orange blossom honey turns it floral and long instead of simply sweet.
Drinks
Cold Brew with Salted Honey Cream
Cold brew under a loose cloud of cream whipped with honey and salt. The salt keeps it from tipping into dessert.