Just before Christmas, a customer at a market walked up to me boldly and proclaimed “so what are you spending all your money on then? You beekeepers are rolling in it”. I just smiled and replied “gold bricks to pave the driveway to our mansion”. If only he knew…. Things have been fairly quiet on the Hunt and Gather front as of late. We went mad with markets leading up to Christmas, with 2-3 and sometimes even 4 a week to capture the spending frenzy leading up to the big day. It was the first time that we had done any Christmas markets and it was great to get a feel for how the markets go at that time of...
Fig and Thyme Cocktail It feels like summer is starting to slip away. The days are getting shorter and the bees are getting a bit swarmy. Make the most of the last warm evenings with this super fragrant, indulgent and delicious cocktail. Our brand new honeys are perfect for this recipe right now because they are still liquid but later in the year, just mix the honey with a tablespoon of hot water to liquify it. Ingredients 25ml Cointreau 1 fig, finely sliced 6 sprigs of fresh thyme 1 teaspoon honey Champagne, sparkling wine, cider or soda water Fill a tall glass with ice. Add the cointreau and thyme and stir vigirously to release some flavour from the thyme. Add...
Honey and Basil Gin This drink is perfect for a warm summer evening, Sweet, fresh, tasty. Ingredients This is to make one drink so just double, triple, quadruple it depending on your needs. 1 tablespoon honey 50 ml boiling water 15 basil leaves 1 lemon wedge 2 shots of gin ice soda water Stir the honey in to the boiling water to dissolve it and set aside to cool. Fill a tall glass with ice. Pour over the cold honey syrup and gin. Add the basil leaves and the lemon wedge (squeeze some of the lemon juice out into the glass as you add it. Give it all a good stir to bruise the basil leaves and release...
Hot Toddy Cocktail The combination of honey and lemon is a classic one but sometimes it’s just too hot for a hot toddy. Turns out if you cool it down and put it over ice it makes a delicious cocktail. This recipe makes enough for one cocktail; so for each extra person just add an extra dose of each ingredient. Ingredients 1 lemon 1 tablespoon honey 1 pinch cinnamon 100mL water 1-2 shots of whiskey Juice the lemon and combine with the honey, cinnamon and water in a pot. Heat until the honey has dissolved into the liquid and then remove from the heat and allow to cool completely before serving. To serve, add ice and as much whiskey...
Every time I write one of these business updates I promise myself that I won’t leave it so long before writing the next one, but without fail it goes longer and longer between updates. To be honest, this Spring we had a bit too much going on and time to do the extra bits just kept disappearing, but here goes four months worth of updates! We are well and truly in to our second year of business and it feels like a long-term relationship now. The initial butterflies and fast-paced excitement has settled into a healthy rhythm and things feel like they are, for the most part, ticking along nicely. There have been a few changes in our world...
