About this Honey
A field crop blend common in the Southern and Western U.S. It combines the white, creamy, quick-setting Cotton honey with the spicy, mild Alfalfa honey. The result is almost always a crystallized, spreadable honey that is very sweet and mild, acting as a perfect neutral canvas for buttered toast.
Honey Characteristics
Gossypium / Medicago sativa
Summer
Common
The Cotton Belt
Buttery straw, light honeyed wax, very mild warm field crops
Thick, paste-like solid, naturally creamed micro-crystalline sheet
Honey Profile Chart
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The Story
Mashing two massive agricultural crops of the sunny Western plains, this blend pairs the high-fructose, herbaceous nectar of Medicago sativa with the heavy, rapid-graining sugars of summer Gossypium. The foraging challenge lies in managing the bees' efficiency, as alfalfa blossoms feature a dramatic spring-loaded trip mechanism that strikes the bee to transfer pollen, often driving them to seek the simpler cotton squares. The blend completely skips standard liquid processing to provide a dense, naturally setting paste-like solid that forms a uniform micro-crystalline sheet. This low-moisture sugar canvas avoids complex or bitter flavor notes, delivering an unblemished, neutral sweet asset that provides structural stability and clean browning when used in commercial baking.
Sensory Profile
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At a Glance
A Common variety, harvested in Summer, from The Cotton Belt, derived from Gossypium / Medicago sativa blossoms.