Which honey has the mildest flavour?

The mildest honeys

• Acacia — the palest widely available honey and the reference point for mildness. Also stays liquid, which is often the second thing people want.
• Huajillo — a water-white Texas honey, delicate almost to the point of blankness.
• Fireweed — clean and buttery with a faint tea-like note. Delicate in a way that rewards attention.
• Borage — very light with a cool cucumber freshness that fades with age.
• Rapeseed — intensely sweet and close to flavourless. Its virtue is a fine smooth set rather than taste.
• Alfalfa — mild and clean, and close enough to clover that most people cannot separate them.
• Sulla and asphodel — the pale Mediterranean monoflorals, delicate with a soft almond note.

What mild honey is for

Anywhere the honey should sweeten without an opinion: in delicate teas, over fresh cheese, in a light dressing, on anything you actually want to taste. A mild honey with a strong food disappears entirely, so it is wasted on a cheese board and excellent on a green tea.

It is also generally wasted in baking. Prolonged heat destroys the aromatics that distinguish one mild honey from another, so an expensive acacia in a cake becomes an expensive way to add sucrose. Cook with something cheap or something structurally strong.