Remember how I said this was a four-year supply? I was wrong. (And no, I didn't give any away, I used it in cooking and tea and sandwiches, and didn't make any particular effort to use it up.)
Oh noes! Hans is an excellent selector of varieties of honey. They have at least 8 or 9 varieties in their kitchen. If you're looking for a good recommendation, he usually has one or two new favorites to suggest.
No, no, they're not used up -- but then, it hasn't been nearly four years, either. I look forward to eating the lavender honey bit by bit with a spoon!
I recognize three of the seven from your previous photo. A fourth one is clover honey and I'm not that excited about clover honey (I have about 30 types of honey at home currently, and none of them are clover). But what are the three Italian ones? Photo is too small to read the labels well.
Also curious about some of the honeys in this photo. One's a French lavender honey, and then there's one from Indiana and one "local" but I can't tell where - those two might both be wildflower, but I can't see that part of their labels. (I assume the other four are clover, although I can only read one of the labels)
The Italian honeys came in a three-pack that my mother-in-law ordered from a catalog for my Christmas present. If I remember correctly, the chestnut one had a strong and unpleasant flavor and we got rid of it. I don't remember what the other Italian honey was like.
Unless I'm eating the honey off a spoon (which I do sometimes, like when I have a sore throat and am waiting for the tea water to boil), I mostly can't tell the good honey from the cheap supermarket stuff. Texture is my main reason for deliberately owning more than one container of honey: I want liquid honey for tea and for baking, and I want more viscous honey for spreading on matzah (with cream cheese -- my favorite way to eat matzah).
Most of the nicer honey was given to me by other people. The Indiana honey came from my friend Steph who lives there. The Farmacy Herbs honey is from Smithfield, RI (you should visit Farmacy Herbs the next time you're down that way). Indian Ladder Farm is where my grandmother used to buy bushels of apples (she kept them in her garage, which produced a delicious scent which means autumn to me) -- I don't know if they keep bees or if they have a supplier.
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Date: 2012-02-12 10:42 pm (UTC)Also curious about some of the honeys in this photo. One's a French lavender honey, and then there's one from Indiana and one "local" but I can't tell where - those two might both be wildflower, but I can't see that part of their labels. (I assume the other four are clover, although I can only read one of the labels)
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Date: 2012-02-13 04:04 am (UTC)Unless I'm eating the honey off a spoon (which I do sometimes, like when I have a sore throat and am waiting for the tea water to boil), I mostly can't tell the good honey from the cheap supermarket stuff. Texture is my main reason for deliberately owning more than one container of honey: I want liquid honey for tea and for baking, and I want more viscous honey for spreading on matzah (with cream cheese -- my favorite way to eat matzah).
Most of the nicer honey was given to me by other people. The Indiana honey came from my friend Steph who lives there. The Farmacy Herbs honey is from Smithfield, RI (you should visit Farmacy Herbs the next time you're down that way). Indian Ladder Farm is where my grandmother used to buy bushels of apples (she kept them in her garage, which produced a delicious scent which means autumn to me) -- I don't know if they keep bees or if they have a supplier.