Mieli Thun Orange Honey

• Mieli Thun
  
• Orange Honey
• Miele di Arancio
• Size: 8.82 oz (250 g)
• Ingredients: bee honey.
• Product of Italy
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Honey
The aroma of orange blossoms characterizes this honey, along with the notes of honeysuckle, hawthorn, and yellow melon. Pleasantly sweet to the palate, with floral notes that can develop into lightly fruited notes, inviting additional tastes. The compound responsible for the distinctive orange blossom aroma is methylantranilate, and the amount of it present in the honey varies depending on the place of origin.

Accompaniments
Its characteristic acidity and floral notes make it ideal for use in pastry making: pastiera with wheat, fried dough concoctions, and citrus compotes, a good match for savory dishes, with squash flower or spring vegetable frittatas, in marinades for raw fish.

In the kitchen
With extra virgin olive oil and lemon for salads and crudités

Provenance (see map)
Altitude distribution: 0-600 m
Bloom period: March-May

Plant variety (see drawing)
Mid-sized tree with rounded canopy and regular branches. The flowers form next to the peduncles of the leaves, singly or in groups. It prefers siliceous soils. "Zagara" means citrus flower. The word is taken from the arabic "zahara", to shine, to emit white gleams, and "zahr", flower.

Pollens and combinations
Great honeywort, houndstooth, thistle, french honeysuckle.

Mieli Thun is pure monofloral honey collected during peak blooming periods in specially selected, uncontaminated locations. Nomadic honey, produced by taking the bees to sixty extraordinary sites, a family tradition involving trips all over the country, careful observation, and paying heed to the tales of the farmers, who are true connoisseurs of the land.

Pure ingredient. Mieli Thun has stepped out of the box to imagine honey as a pure ingredient with many possible uses. From breakfast to dinner, miraculous in cakes and pastry, it is a salad dressing, cooks perfectly, an emulsifier par excellence, fundamental in cocktails, goes well in curd and is an important ingredient in traditional salamis. The greatest chefs are pioneering this rediscovery, honey is the new frontier of gourmet cuisine.

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