I love this paean to honey (and Lear)! It has made my morning, thank you. I try to buy locally produced honey from farm shops as I also heard that it helps with hay fever in a homeopathic sort of way... not sure if this has been proven but it helps to justify the extra cost of excellent honey. Also, honey can be the stuff of memories; heather honey takes me straight back to childhood holidays in the Highlands where we are it copiously on Scotch pancakes for tea.
Thank you so much! That's interesting about the hayfever thing; perhaps pollen traces act a little bit like a vaccine and get your body's immune system used to it again. And you're so right about taste - single honey is so unique in flavour that it's like someone's perfume - can take you right back to the moment.
I love this paean to honey (and Lear)! It has made my morning, thank you. I try to buy locally produced honey from farm shops as I also heard that it helps with hay fever in a homeopathic sort of way... not sure if this has been proven but it helps to justify the extra cost of excellent honey. Also, honey can be the stuff of memories; heather honey takes me straight back to childhood holidays in the Highlands where we are it copiously on Scotch pancakes for tea.
Thank you so much! That's interesting about the hayfever thing; perhaps pollen traces act a little bit like a vaccine and get your body's immune system used to it again. And you're so right about taste - single honey is so unique in flavour that it's like someone's perfume - can take you right back to the moment.