See our ideas for sweet and savory honey recipes.

Honey: Nature's Medicine?
In addition to being irresistibly sweet, honey inhibits bacteria growth and contains disease-fighting antioxidants. Find out how honey can benefit your health.

Easy Herbal Infusions
Enhance the flavor and aroma of an ordinary pot of honey by pushing two or three sprigs of fresh herbs into the syrup.
Herb-Infused Honey How-To

Single-Variety Honey Glossary: A Baker's Dozen
The color of any given single flower honey, which may range from white to dark brown, through all the many shades of gold and amber in between, provides a clue to its nature. As a rule of thumb, light honeys are mild, amber honeys have richly mellow flavors, and dark honeys are more assertive.

Single-flower honeys are available in several forms. In this country, honey is most commonly extracted from the comb and sold as a liquid. Another, more rustic option is to leave the honey in the comb, which is made of beeswax, a kind of natural chewing gum.

Or honey may be sold in combination form as cut-comb honey, with chunks of honey-in-the comb floating in jars of liquid honey. "Cream" or "spun" honey, also called whipped honey, results from a carefully controlled process of crystallization. This leaves the honey lightened, slightly thickened, and ideally suited for spreading. In much of the world outside the United States, this is the preferred form of honey.