How To Infuse Honey With Herbs For A Delicious Treat
While plain raw honey is pretty darned delicious, you can boost honey’s flavor even more by infusing it with herbs, spices, and other seasonings. As a sugar, honey is hygroscopic: it thoroughly draws moisture out of anything it touches, making it easy to infuse it with herbs, spices, and other aromatics. (Here’s how to bake with 12 sugar substitutes, including honey.)
Our master herb infused honey recipe, below, calls for dried herbs, which will infuse your honey with their aroma and flavor steadily over the course of a week, and yield a shelf-stable flavored honey that you can drizzle over ice cream or use to flavor your tea or baked goods.
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You can also infuse honey with fresh ingredients, such as chopped herbs from your garden or fresh fruit, but because they will add a lot of moisture to the honey, it won’t be shelf-stable—so be sure to keep those infused honeys refrigerated.
Remember: Never give honey to children…
