Locust Honey
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If you live in or visit France as I do often there are a huge variety of cheeses, try making up a cheese board with a bowl of this honey ready for dipping your cheese in, delicious.
Because it has a delicate fruity taste it is perfect for adding to desserts as a topping drizzled over them, especially if the dessert is a little on the tart side.
Eastern North America where the black locust tree is widely grown, this is quite a tall tree which can reach 70" in height.
Its blossoms are heady, sweet and strong as the clusters of white blossoms attract the honey bees towards their nectar. The Americans have nicknamed this honey as "American Acacia"
The blossoms are only around for about 10 days and this is always dependant on weather conditions. This tree loves warm sunny conditions.
It is much the same and both of these are popular in most European countries and even in China and Canada.
Both of these honey's are known as false acacia. The honey locust trees will grow anywhere there are warm conditions.
Please don't let the name put you off, this is an excellent tasting honey, it just happens to have an unfortunate sounding name!
If you are anything like me you'll just dive in to the jar with a spoon and scoop it out but it is perfect for using in so many ways and excellent for cooking sweet honey recipes.
Have you tried this honey? or perhaps you are a beekeeper who specializes in this particular honey. Why not write an article and share with us your own experiences, we love to read them.
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