I think I'll wait another year

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I did not find a recipe in time to make challah for Rosh Hashanah this year, but there is little left of my family's honeycake and the chicken glazed with three kinds of honey, cinnamon, and stuffed with an apple worked out great. Next year I'll remember something with pomegranates.

(cucumberseed, "The Lily of the West: Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #5" is a slightly strange story to read around this time of year.)

A good and a sweet new year to you all.

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the chicken glazed with three kinds of honey

What kinds of honey, and why does it need three? ("Because they taste different, Chaz" - well, yes, but I need more; is it chestnut on the legs and lavender on the breast, or...?)

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What kinds of honey, and why does it need three?

The most important was beech-forest honeydew honey, of which I did not have enough to baste the chicken throughout its roasting time; it went on as an undercoat, to get the flavor in, and then for the final glazing. I was very pleased that you could still taste it, dark and malty. The other two were much lighter wildflower honeys, applied more regularly. I had rubbed cinamon and pepper on the skin first. There was also cinnamon on the apple, which baked nearly to liquefaction inside the chicken. Given how little is left of it all, I am considering it a success.