Lavender Earl Grey-Infused Honey

I love honey; who doesn't? I was crazy about those honey straws you find at natural food stores when I was a kid, and I even bought little jars of chestnut honey and strawberry honey made at the base of Mt. Etna when I was in Sicily. But I'd never actually attempted to alter honey or add anything to it, until I saw this recipe from the Alice's Tea Cup cookbook, that just looked too simple and too delicious not to try.  

Lavender Earl Grey-Infused Honey

        1 heaping teaspoon Lavender Earl Grey tea leaves

        1 cup honey

1. Steep the tea leaves in 1/4 cup boiling-hot water for 3 minutes. Strain the tea.

2. In a small mixing bowl, combine the honey and 2 tablespoons of the tea, and stir until well mixed.

3. Store, covered, in the refrigerator until ready to use - it will keep for about 2 weeks.

Voilà, fancy shmancy honey! Instead of using a mixing bowl, I combined the tea and honey in a tupperware container so that I could just snap on the lid and put it in the fridge. The taste of the tea in the honey was very mild but still distinguishable. Coming tomorrow (hopefully) - granola made with this honey!