Portfolio item posted on Sunday, February 28th 2010 at 12:52 PM

Macadamia Blossoms add a buttery flavor to honey!

At Red Leaf Tea, our host site and online store, we have a lot of great honey’s available, including a honey made near tremendous fields of macadamia nut trees, right here.  These blossoms give the honey a buttery flavor.  Honey is mostly sugar, of course, and the palate can easily be overwhelmed by the sweet gooeyness of its taste.  As a way of educating your palate, and for a little fun with the family, you might try a taste test for several honeys!  Buy a plain honey and two flavored honeys.  pour a little from each onto a saucer and provide several spoons for your tasters, making sure that they don’t see which honey goes onto which saucer!  Orange blossom and blueberry blossom honey have distinct flavors and are fairly easy to find in supermarkets.  When the tasting begins, write down the results and see if there is a gourmet in the house!