Seeding

Definition

A small quantity of finely granulated honey is stirred into liquid honey, giving the crystals somewhere to form and producing a fine smooth set rather than a coarse one. This is how creamed honey is made. Nothing is added except honey.

Honey records that discuss this

• Ak balMild, creamy and delicately floral with a faint herbal lift — the texture is much of the appeal, dense and smooth and dissolving rather than sticky.

Plant records that discuss this

• Forget-me-notModerate on both counts, and valuable because the flowers are small and shallow enough for the smallest solitary bees that larger plants exclude.
• ColumbineA good nectar source that most bees cannot reach legitimately — which is precisely what makes it interesting.

Guide records that discuss this

• Creamed, set and whipped honeyCreamed honey has nothing added and nothing whipped into it. It is ordinary honey whose crystallisation has been controlled instead of left to chance, and the technique is a hundred years old.