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It's estimated that every year millions of people feel the ill-effects of hay fever across the UK. Yet there is currently no scientifically backed cure for hay fever, other than to alleviate it with over-the-counter medication or avoid going outdoors...Read now
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LEMON THYME & HONEY POLENTA CAKE
Made without refined sugar, this delicious honey cake is also flourless and has a wonderful texture. Our Wiltshire Wildflower Honey and delicate lemon thyme give it a delicious hit of flavour and fragrance too.Read now -
Travels in Honey: Slow cooked Chicken with Mango
Our Travels in Honey continues with Slow cooked Chicken with Mango. A recipe that operates on the same delicious premise say that lamb and apricots do, or sausages and apples, beef and quince. All of these are marriages of sweet and savoury brought together in a truly melting texture that binds the distinct flavours together.
Same for chicken and mango, here, the Ginger and Turmeric Honey not only helps render the juices particularly syrupy (just the kind to mop up with some bread) but draws out the rich amber hues of the dish.
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TRAVELS IN HONEY: Greens 'Gomaae' with Borage Honey
Our series ‘Travels with Honey’ continues, showing honey’s versatility across a spectrum of cultures and cuisines. This weeks recipe shows how to shake up our winter greens using our delicate Borage Honey in a recipe with origins in the Japanese side-dish ‘goma-ae’ which means simply ‘sesame sauce’.Read now -
Meet the London Honey Company team: Hannah Reeves
Read nowWe sit down with Hannah, our first apprentice beekeeper and host of our online courses Hannah! How did you get into beekeeping? I first started keeping bees at 16, and not having a sweet tooth, never really ate the honey. When...
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The B Word
Read nowThe B word, not bees this time, but bacteria. It used to be a dirty word, an invisible threat to be got rid of by an arsenal of kitchen chemicals and antibiotics. Of course we all need to be hygienic...
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Feed Your Skin
Read nowI just stumbled across one of my favourite books, Feed Your Face, by Dian Dincin Buchman. Many teenage hours were spent raiding the fridge and hiding out in the bathroom, blanketed in oatmeal mixtures to beautify myself. This treasure trove...
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Christmas party season: honey & hangovers
Read nowIt's Christmas party season and so last week the London Honey Company team headed off to the delicious Oklava in Shoreditch to celebrate the year's achievements. It was a rare chance for us all to be around the same table...
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Natural Remedies for Coughs
Read nowIt’s that time of year again when the trains are packed with people spluttering, sniffling and coughing as the rest of the carriage tries to shuffle away or duck. So if it’s you coughing how can you soothe the symptoms...