Lavender honey

Miel de lavande

What it is

Hives are trucked up to the Provençal plateaux in July when the lavender opens, a migration beekeepers have made for generations. It crystallises into a fine white cream rather than gritty crystals, which is the mark of the real thing.

In the kitchen

Use it where its perfume is the point — over goat's cheese, in an ice cream, with apricots. Cooked hard it is wasted.

Goes with

Goat cheese Apricot Peach Almond Cream Fig Lemon Yogurt

Same species

Lavender flowers

Also used with

Pélardon

In season alongside

Wild strawberry Lychee Mangosteen Marjoram Pear Sunflower honey

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