Overabundance of dandelions in your garden? Turn them into this tasty honey! It has a very unusual but pleasant taste and it’s great on waffles, scones, pancakes, icecream, or whatever your heart desires. It makes a great gift too. DD (5) and I had great fun picking dandelion flowers for this recipe. I have entered this recipe into the Tea Time Treats blog challenge alternately hosted by Lavender & Lovage and What Kate Baked. This month it is Lavender & Lovage and the theme is: Get Floral in the Kitchen with Floral Flavours & Flowers.
150g dandelion petals
1 litre water
1 lemon
1 kg raw cane sugar (I just used caster sugar)
The day before: harvest your dandelion flowers. You’ll need a lot! Pluck the yellow petals off and put them in a large pan with the water. Cook briefly and leave to stew, covered, over night.
The day of preparation: Drain and reserve the liquid. Peel the lemon and slice. Add lemon slices and sugar to the liquid and bring to the boil. Boil until reduced to one third off the original volume. Test: take a spoonful out and allow to cool. It should have the consistency of honey. Sieve the honey into jars; seal and cool.
This recipe is adapted from a recipe in Alfred Vogel’s Naturally fresh & Delicious recipe book.
Mum of three, daydream adventurer, OU Life Sciences graduate, occasional crafter, ex-pat Canadian & quite possibly Britain's most northerly food blogger.
rebecca nisbet says
August 30, 2014 at 10:17 pmwow, great idea!
Magnolia Verandah says
May 26, 2012 at 12:11 pmOh this is so easy its amazing!
Choclette says
May 17, 2012 at 10:36 amThis looks great. I so wanted to make some this year after reading about it last year, but I still didn’t manage to get my act together and they are all over now. Next year!
Urvashi@BotanicalBaker says
May 8, 2012 at 8:19 pmAm LOVING this!
Karen S Booth says
May 6, 2012 at 4:30 pmAbsolutely brilliant! I make my own lavender honey every year, and as I have seen lots of dandelions this year, I am bookmarking this to make soon! Great entry for Tea Time Treats and thanks so much for entering! Karen
Chris says
May 5, 2012 at 12:34 pmSounds really great! There were a lot of dandelion flowers in the garden, but the landlord went over them with a lawnmover. But they will be back. I only have to beware of the dogs.
Shaheen says
May 5, 2012 at 12:19 pmOh I love this, I was actually going to make some Dandylion Syrup, but this wins.