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  • HAYFEVER SEASON WITH HELP FROM THE BEES
    May 10, 2024 Steve Benbow

    HAYFEVER SEASON WITH HELP FROM THE BEES


    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...
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  • LEMON THYME & HONEY POLENTA CAKE
    February 23, 2024 Steve Benbow

    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.
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  • Travels in Honey: Slow cooked Chicken with Mango
    February 25, 2021 the London Honey Company

    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
    February 11, 2021 the London Honey Company

    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’.
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  • Meet the London Honey Company team: Hannah Reeves
    May 1, 2020 Sonya Karlsson

    Meet the London Honey Company team: Hannah Reeves


    We 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
    June 29, 2017 Emily Reed

    The B Word


    The 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
    April 27, 2017 Emily Reed

    Feed Your Skin


    I 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
    December 14, 2016 Emily Reed

    Christmas party season: honey & hangovers


    It'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
    December 6, 2016 Emily Reed

    Natural Remedies for Coughs


    It’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...

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