I’ve wanted to preserve honey suckle syrup since we’ve lived here! After 7 years I finally have the opportunity to invest time in the fun things around the property. For this recipe it’s equal parts honey suckle blossoms, water and sugar. Just steep the blossoms then strain and dissolve in sugar. Water bath can this product in clean jars for 10 mins.
Honey Suckle simple syrup can be added to whatever you like, ice water, iced tea, summer cocktails, popsicles, frosting flavoring, hot tea, even coffee. Experiment with ways you want to use it.
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49 Comments
Candy lipstick or candy cigarettes flavor?
Love the smile on your face! Beautiful 🌺
I had no clue about honeysuckle! I’ve been homesteading for 35 years! I know honeysuckle has nothing to do with homesteading but….
Now I need to go out and about and search this 37 acres!
Thank you Rachael!
Seeing your day lily video last year- I’m craving them and mine are about to bloom! Taste like a good lettuce!
We make a highly sought after honeysuckle pepper jelly every year. Poured over cream cheese 😍😍😍
Just found your channel today and I / we the community appreciate you, for teaching us about agriculture, substantial living and cooking
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Tastes like Bit o Honey?
Funny you say about going around the property taking pictures and looking them up. I too have been doing that to our property. We moved from Ontario to New Brunswick Canada last October so have no idea all this land has to offer yet. Exploring and foraging daily. Have fun as i am. Cheers
I'm glad you are having a restful and joy-filled summer/garden break! I wish we had honeysuccle on our property. Do you have any Lilac bushes there that you could also make syrup with? I am a northerner from NH and then CO transplanted down to TX. If there is one bush I miss the most it's the scent and the beauty of a hardy lilac bush.
That’s cool! My daughter made a simple syrup out of the rhubarb pulp she used in a coffee cake loaf. The syrup was excellent in a lemonade!
I have elderberry in my backyard but I'm planning to cut the majority down as it's growing too close to the house and in my fence.
I have just bought my first honeysuckle plant. She is just a baby, and I can't wait for her to grow up and give me some flowers.
Strawberry/lemon concentrate for summer coolers
Last year our 13 year old granddaughter wanted to make Peony jelly😊 My peonies were in full bloom. She found a recipe and made a beautiful jelly. She waterbathed canned for the first time and is hooked😂🤣😂
It was a great teaching time for the proper method to waterbath canning. This "Gramz" was blessed by her enthusiasm 💖💕
How did a Louisiana girl end up in N. Michigan?
We have invasive Autumn Olives and read the berries are edible (even though honeysuckle berries are not edible) but cannot find if the flowers are edible. Smell a lot like honeysuckle so I presume yes! Excited to make this.
Mmmm…A hot, hot day & honeysuckle snow cone syrup. 👀💖💕😍
We used to do that with honeysuckle from the hedge across the street when I was six, before before we moved to Canada. I don’t it think it grows in our zone. I’m not sure if I would pick from city parks, I know they spray for mosquitoes so I would have to do some research.
Sometimes it’s not about not knowing that they’re edible but that the farmers spray everywhere! I love farmers, I’m thankful for farmers, I’m just saying it does make foraging in farm country more difficult. The sprayer honeysuckle still smells amazing though!!!
I bet that is amazing!!! I made some Desert Willow flower tea the other day and I’m thinking of turning that into a syrup! Yumm. Thanks for the inspiration!
I never knew that, amazing ❤
Honeysuckle is the scent of my childhood. There was honeysuckle growing all over our property and we would sit for hours as children and suck on the stems. I can't wait for us to move so I can plant honeysuckle. Thank you for a great idea to use it.
Never heard of honey suckle simple syrup.
Your right when you reach a certain age you most likely have everything you need. I know I don’t need anything. I’m 59 and don’t want stuff any more. Food gifts are the best.
My daughter made me some Redbud jelly. It was delicious 😋. This looks wonderful too. These floral flavors are refreshing.
I have a small honeysuckle vine I planted about 3 years ago. Hopefully it will produce so I can try this it sounds wonderful.
It never dawned on me to can simple syrup. I had been freezing it. I gather that you can add different flavors like you suggested or leave it just plain and water-bath can it. My question is can you reduce the sugar say to 2/3 c per cup of water and still have it be safe to can? I find the 1:1 is a bit too sweet for my liking.
Caramel?
I just got the forger's book on wild edibles. So cool how many things nature provides
I only have 1 honeysuckle bush remaining. We had to clear a lot of my land/ yard as trees were too old & dying so my significant cleared quit alot, i wish i hadnt goven him the go ahead, he kinda went into overkill, really the yard needed it but i miss my trees and wild greenary. Im so tired of rain too, i would go into my woods g start doing some transplants, i guess i still can, just worried about falling & breaking a bone hahaha, but i am 62, not spring chicken anymore
I turned 55 recently and while i really need nothing i do so enjoy making soap, gardening and canning. I love homemade anything. If someone make me something I'm a just thrilled 🙃
You seem SO HAPPY in this video. Keep doing what you're doing xx
What part of Louisiana?
Fun!
I love this, it turned out beautiful and looks easy!! Thank you!!
I recently found your channel and I have to say, you make learning so pleasant. Your voice is so soothing I love having your videos running while I work around the home. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos and I look forward to continuing to learn from you.
I did a video last year for a Collab doing honeysuckle jelly. So pretty and yummy. I learned about daylillies last year too!
It tastes like sunshine 😉🤣
Aww. This video took me back 50 years. We used to suck the nectar after pulling the flowers off. I haven’t see honeysuckle in so many years. Can people buy seeds for honeysuckle? They always grew and climbed like a vine over the chain link fence. Thanks for the memories from this video. 😊 I love your channel. Thank you for all your effort. Your videos are so enjoyable.
Remind you of Bit o honey candy??
Can you can banana peppers in pineapple juice?
I made honeysuckle ice cream for the first time ever a few weeks ago. We will definitely be doing this every year now!
Please tell us how you keep your enameled cast iron so clean and not stained!
Rachel – I have honeysuckles in my backyard too! (And, I'm in hot Louisiana) – where bout are you from, if ya don't mind me asking? I love learning from y'all and thank ya for posting! #KeepCrushing <3
This is so good 👍
It took a while but worth it
One of our best purchases ever was a Soda Stream. I can our own lemonade concentrate. When we reconstitute it, we dilute it with two thirds water. To serve, we mix one half to 3/4 sparkling water to lemonade. It's so refreshing and relatively low in sugar. I've started making my own simple syrups to use in the same way. It's also great with unsweet iced tea and flavorings for kombucha second ferment.
Lovely Rachel
That syrup looks like liquid sunshine!
Our blooms are already gone for the year, but I CANNOT wait to make this next year! 😍 So excited. Do you have a video on dandelion jelly?
That was a joy to watch