You can use this honey syrup for cocktails, elderberry tea, and even home remedies! Try it with this pine needle tea, your favorite adult beverage!
This honey simple syrup is exactly that - simple! You only need two ingredients: honey and water. I, however, like to add sliced lemons to give it extra flavor and immunity-boosting properties, but that part is optional!
I also like adding it to ice tea or to sweeten lemonade!
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🍋 Benefits of Honey & Lemon
Honey and lemon are a winning combination, not only in terms of flavor, but also in terms of health benefits! According to Healthline.com, mixing honey and lemon may aid in weight loss, boost your immune system, soothe sore throats, and improve digestive health!
You can mix the syrup into your tea, or take a spoonful of it to ease a sore throat. It can also help with seasonal allergies, although if that is your aim you'll want to make sure you use a raw & unfiltered locally-sourced honey.
😍 Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Honey simple syrup is versatile and can be used in vinaigrettes, salad dressings, marinades, and more!
- This simple syrup recipe only requires a couple of ingredients.
- Honey syrup tastes great and can boost your immunity too!
- Making a syrup with honey makes it more pourable into your tea, lemonade, or even over your pancakes!
🛒 What You Need For This Recipe
🔖 Ingredients & Substitutions
- Honey: Any honey will do, but raw, unfiltered honey is best if you want to take advantage of the health benefits! Even better if it's locally sourced!
- Lemon: You can omit it, or use fresh or dehydrated oranges instead.
- Other ingredients to try: If you'd like to infuse your honey simple syrup with additional flavor to give it more complexity, you can use ginger, lavender, chamomile, etc. You can also experiment with rosemary and other herbs.
🍯 How To Make This Recipe
Step 1: Combine ½ cup of water and ½ cup of honey in a small saucepan or pot. Simmer over low heat until honey has completely dissolved. Do not boil to preserve the beneficial bacteria in raw honey.
Pro Tip: If you want to add more flavor, you can also add lemon zest, ginger, edible flowers, or herbs while the syrup is boiling, and then strain them out before storing.
Step 2: Rinse lemon, then thinly slice and remove seeds. Add lemon slices (one at a time) to an 8-ounce mason jar. Ensure each slice is submerged in syrup.
Pro Tip: If you want it very lemony, use the entire lemon, or add a few slices for a more subtle lemon flavor.
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Step 3: Store honey syrup in the fridge with lemons slices or remove the lemon slices to lengthen the shelf life.
☕️ Serving Suggestions
This honey syrup is a great natural substitute for artificial sweeteners in hot or iced tea, but why stop there? You can use it to enhance cocktails, or any cold beverage, such as mocktails or even smoothies.
Honey syrup also works great as an alternative to sugar when making marinades, sauces, vinaigrettes, and more! You may also want to try this hot honey recipe from Brianna at Casual Foodist!
🍸 Honey Syrup In Cocktails
For all you aspiring mixologists out there, honey syrup is a versatile sweetener that can be used in lieu of regular simple syrup for any cocktail that needs sweetening! If you need some inspiration, here are a few very simple cocktail recipes that it can be used for:
Bee's Knees Cocktail (gin + honey + lemon)
Tequila Honey Bee (tequila, honey, lime, spice)
Gold Rush Cocktail (bourbon, honey, lemon)
🌸 More Easy Syrups To Try
Looking for more easy syrups to make for cocktails, teas, and more? Check out these simple recipes!
- Lavender Simple Syrup
- Lilac Syrup
- Jasmine Syrup
- Rose Hip Syrup
- Easy Date Syrup
- Elderberry Syrup
- Earl Grey Syrup
🤷🏻♀️ FAQs
Since honey syrup is essentially just watered-down honey, I wouldn't recommend using it as a substitute for honey when it comes to baking or any recipe that requires precision. It could, however, work as a substitute when it comes to smoothies, drinks, and things of that nature.
Honey syrup, when stored in a clean airtight container in the fridge, will last anywhere from 4-6 weeks.
👩🏻🍳 Pro Tips
- If you want a thicker syrup, you can increase the ratio of honey to water from 1:1 to 2:1. For a thinner syrup, use a ratio of 2 parts water to 1 part honey.
- When thickened, this honey syrup recipe is not only great with drinks but also works well drizzled over pancakes, waffles, cakes, etc!
- When stored in the fridge in an airtight container, this honey simple syrup will last up to a month!
- Another option is to store it in a plastic squeeze bottle for even easier dispensing!
- I don't recommend canning the honey syrup because it would require boiling it and killing the healthy bacteria which makes it beneficial!
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📖 Recipe
Honey Syrup
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup honey
- 1 small lemon (optional)
Instructions
- Combine ½ cup of water and ½ cup of honey in a small saucepan or pot. Simmer over low heat until honey has completely dissolved. Do not boil to preserve the beneficial bacteria in raw honey.
- Rinse lemon, then thinly slice and remove seeds. Add lemon slices (one at a time) to an 8-ounce mason jar. Ensure each slice is submerged in syrup.
- Store honey syrup in the fridge with lemons slices or remove the lemon slices to lengthen the shelf life.
Serving Suggestions
- This honey syrup is a great natural substitute for artificial sweeteners in hot or iced tea, but why stop there? You can use it to enhance cocktails, or any cold beverage, such as mocktails or even smoothies.
Notes
- If you want to add more flavor, you can also add lemon zest, ginger, edible flowers, or herbs while the syrup is boiling, and then strain them out before storing.
- If you want it very lemony, use the entire lemon, or add a few slices for a more subtle lemon flavor.
- If you want a thicker syrup, you can increase the ratio of honey to water from 1:1 to 2:1.
- When thickened, this honey syrup recipe is not only great with drinks but also works well drizzled over pancakes, waffles, cakes, etc!
- When stored in the fridge in an airtight container, this honey simple syrup will last up to a month!
- Another option is to store it in a plastic squeeze bottle for even easier dispensing!
- I don't recommend canning the honey syrup because it would require boiling it and killing the healthy bacteria which makes it beneficial!
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