HoBe Salted Honey

Salt in honey sounds redundant until you taste it. Plain honey is sweet and that is about all it is, so by the third spoonful it can wear you out. Salt fixes that. It sharpens the sweetness instead of covering it, cuts the heaviness, and lets the floral notes through.

HoBe Honey makes the honey., with help from the bees he keeps. We supply the brine, and that second part matters more than it sounds. Honey holds almost no water, so salt crystals stirred into it never actually dissolve. They stay gritty and sink to the bottom. Using our brine puts the salt in already dissolved, so it spreads evenly and the honey stays smooth. You taste salt in every spoonful instead of hitting it in pieces.

Start with ice cream. Spoon it over vanilla and eat it while the honey is still sitting on top, before it melts in. Cold, sweet, and salt all land at once, and most people are sold on the first bite.

After that, stir it into oatmeal or plain yogurt. Set it on a cheese board next to goat cheese, which is the pairing people come back for: the cheese is tangy, the honey is sweet, and the salt keeps the two from blurring into each other.

Then use it the way you would use any honey, and expect it to be better. Warm biscuits and cornbread. Buttered toast. Fried chicken. Roasted carrots or winter squash. A spoonful stirred into hot tea. Drizzled over a pizza that already has chili on it.

Perfect For: Ice cream, oatmeal and yogurt, goat cheese and cheese boards, biscuits and cornbread, toast, fried chicken, roasted vegetables, tea and coffee.

Ingredients

• Honey (HoBe Honey)
• Syracuse Salt Co. Salt Brine

The Details

• A collaboration with HoBe Honey
• Store at room temperature. Refrigeration speeds up crystallization
• If it firms up or turns grainy over time, that is the honey crystallizing, not spoilage. Set the sealed jar in a bowl of warm water and stir until it loosens
• Not suitable for infants under one year old

Sweet and salty runs through a lot of what we make. Try Espresso Flake Salt and Vanilla Cinnamon Flake Salt on the same bowl of ice cream, Lavender Flake Salt if honey on toast is your habit, or the 3-Salt Sweet and Salty Set to taste the range at once.