Homemade Lavender Infused Honey
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Flavoured or infused honey as it is called is gaining in popularity all the time. But they are not cheap in the shops. Here’s how to make your own delicious lavender infused honey that is delicious on toast, perfect for your morning Greek yogurt too and so much more.
Today is a BBC day and I’m going on to MacAuley & Co to talk about the wonders of honey because this fabulous little bee byproduct had been hitting the headlines lately.
While we have all heard about the wonders of Manuka honey and its health benefits, many people have never considered ‘normal’ honey and its beneficial properties. The thing is, honey is a bit like wine, you get good stuff and you get the not-so-good, you have to shop around.
Glasgow University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, has been doing some research into the use of honey on animal wounds and have discovered that Scottish heather honey rates highly in the healing stakes.
To quote Dr Patrick Pollock “A heather honey surprisingly came out fantastically well. It was actually killing bacteria at concentrations of less than 2%, which astounded us.”
The new study suggests heather honey made by bees in areas near Inverness could be as useful as New Zealand’s famous Manuka honey.
This is all great news for honey and for Scotland too. I’ve always been a huge honey fan and will be talking about its uses for bath and beauty as well as for healing scalds and scrapes. You can read my Ten Top Tips For Honey in this post I did a few months ago.
Today I shall share a really easy way to make lavender infused honey which tastes wonderful and also adds the healing properties of lavender to the already health packed honey.
Ingredients for lavender infused honey
There are just 2 ingredients here, lavender and honey!
- 1 jar of runny honey 200ml
- 1 teaspoon dried lavender flowers
How to make lavender honey
- Pour the honey into a small pan and add the lavender.
- Heat gently but do not boil. Simmer for 20 minutes then remove from heat.
- Pour into a jar and close the lid. Place in a cool dark cupboard for a week to let the lavender really infuse the honey.
- Reheat the honey so it is as liquid as possible and strain out the lavender pieces.
- Pour it into a sterilised jar and pop on a lid.
How to use lavender honey
Use your lavender infused honey to sweeten tea and other drinks, in cooking and baking and also to help soothe scrapes and scalds and heal those pesky zits.
Spread this lavender honey on toast, in scones and of course spoon some through your Greek yogurt in the morning too.
How long will this keep
This can be stored for up to a year. Though honey of course lasts a lot longer than that.
Looking for more delicious sweet spreads to make at home? Then check these out before you go;
Strawberry and elderflower jam
Chilli and basil infused jelly
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Lavender Infused Honey
Ingredients
- 200 g runny honey
- 1 tsp dried lavender flowers
Instructions
- Pour the honey into a small pan and add the lavender. Heat gently but do not boil. Simmer for 20 minutes then remove from heat.
- Pour into a jar and close the lid. Place in a cool dark cupboard for a week to let the lavender really infuse the honey.
- Reheat the honey so it is as liquid as possible and strain out the lavender pieces. Pour it into a sterilised jar and pop on a lid.
This is very interesting. It is amazing as to all the good things honey can do. By the way, Karon, is there a site we could go to, to listen to your radio program? Thanks for all you do to educate us with about all the wonderful natural things.
Patti xxoo