DIY Honeysuckle Honey
Channel: Happy Holistics
Date: 2020-06-24

Hi everyone,

Here’s how to make a honeysuckle honey!  

Harvest a bunch of organic honeysuckle - please remember to leave some open blooms for bees to gather pollen.  Be very careful you’ve correctly identified the plant.  If you’re not sure what you’re picking, it’s better to err on the side of caution and just buy dried honeysuckle.

The amount of flowers I picked was an estimate of how many loose flowers I can pack into a jar - multiplied by about 2.  This isn’t exact, and however many blossoms you can pick will do just fine.  

I leave the blossoms out for about 15 minutes, so that it gives any critters I might’ve picked up to skedaddle.  I am not washing these flowers, because introducing water can make your honey go bad.  

Start with some honey at the bottom of your jar and pack all the blossoms you’ve collected into that jar.  If you’re doing this from dried, just fill the jar about 1/2 way to 3/4. 

Top with more liquid honey - you want to make sure you have enough honey to coat all the flowers and enough to cover the blossoms by an inch or two.  Anything not covered by honey can go moldly.

Then place a piece of wax paper over the jar opening and close the lid tightly.  You want to make sure that the wax paper completely covers the jar and that there is extra hanging over the sides.

I store mine on a kitchen counter because as it sits, the flowers rise to the top, and I have to remember to invert the jar.  I do this a couple of times each day, so the honeysuckle is constantly coating and covered by the honey.  You can eat this after a couple of days, but I like the floral notes to infuse as long as possible.  

You can spoon this stuff into a mug and steep it as tea.  You can slather some of this onto toast with almond butter.  Just use it as you would ‘regular honey’ - you can eat both the flowers and the honey. 

BENEFITS

Honeysuckle and honey are both great for sore throats and mouth sores.

The honeysuckle flower is said to help combat inflammation and infections and it’s supposed to be great for skin problems.

To be honest, I’d make this just for the amazing honeysuckle scent!