Honey

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"The Bear and the Maiden Fair", by Serena Malyon © Fantasy Flight Games

Honey is a substance created by bees. It can be used as a sweetener in foods and beverages.

Food and Drink

Honey has been used as a sweetener for chicken,[1] duck,[2] capon,[3] partridge,[4] quail,[5] deer,[6] lamb,[7] ham,[8] porridge,[9] mice,[10] dormice,[11] dog,[12] snails,[13] peaches,[14] carrots,[15] bread,[16] cakes,[17] and biscuits.[18][19] Dothraki roast horseflesh with honey and peppers.[2] Honey can be used to baste goats[20] and rabbits.[21]

Mead is made from fermented honey. Wine can be sweetened with honey and flavored with spices.[22][2][23] Fermented goat's milk served in an iron cup and laced with honey is popular in Norvos.[24] Lemon juice[25] and iced milk[26] can be sweetened with honey.

Honeycombs can be served as food.[27][28][29] Honeyfingers are a cake baked in Tyrosh.[30]

Honey can be used for medicinal purposes, such as in honeywater,[31] potions,[32] and dreamwine.[33] A spoonful of honey can be included in tansy tea.[34]

Culture

Honeyholt is the seat of House Beesbury in the Reach,[35] and the Honeywine is a prominent river in the province.[36] Honeytree is disputed by Houses Blackwood and Bracken.[37]

In the song "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", a bear licks honey from the hair of a girl.[38]

History

Ellyn Ever Sweet, the legendary founder of House Beesbury, is said to have loved honey so much she sought out the King of the Bees in his vast mountain hive and made a pact to care for his kin for all time, becoming the first beekeeper.[39]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Bran Stark is fed honey and water while comatose after falling from the First Keep.[40]

Catelyn Stark sees casks of honey being transported to King's Landing for the Hand's tourney.[17]

Grand Maester Pycelle gives Sansa Stark a potion of honeywater and herbs.[31]

A Clash of Kings

Mutton chops sauced in honey and cloves are served during the harvest feast at Winterfell.[23]

A Storm of Swords

During the War of the Five Kings, Lannisters take honey from a septry in the riverlands with a hundred beehives.[41]

Kraznys mo Nakloz tells Daenerys Targaryen and Missandei that a slave boy at Douquor's Pit in Astapor will be rolled in honey to tempt a bear.[42]

Samwell Tarly recalls enjoying a dollop of honey and a spoonful of butter in the thick cream of wheat served by Three-Finger Hobb at Castle Black.[43]

Qyburn gives Ser Jaime Lannister, who has had his sword hand cut off, licorice steeped in vinegar with honey and cloves as part of his recovery.[44]

A Feast for Crows

Brienne of Tarth recalls that Ser Hugh Beesbury had given her a pot of honey in an attempt to woo her at Highgarden.[45] While staying at the Quiet Isle, Brienne and her companions are served honey from the septry's hives.[46]

A Dance with Dragons

During the celebrations for her marriage to Hizdahr zo Loraq at Daznak's Pit in Meereen, Daenerys is served honeyed locusts, which she refuses despite Hizdahr urging her to taste them. Her Queensguard, Strong Belwas, gorges on them, only to retch them minutes later.[47] The locusts turn out to have been poisoned.[48]

Quotes

She still remembered the innkeep, a fat woman named Masha Heddle who chewed sourleaf night and day and seemed to have an endless supply of smiles and sweet cakes for the children. The sweet cakes had been soaked with honey, rich and heavy on the tongue, but how Catelyn had dreaded those smiles.[17]

—thoughts of Catelyn Stark

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was trying to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.[49]

—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister

The Old Bear was particular about his hot spiced wine. So much cinnamon and so much nutmeg and so much honey, not a drop more.[50]

—thoughts of Jon Snow

OH, SWEET SHE WAS, AND PURE, AND FAIR! THE MAID WITH HONEY IN HER HAIR![38]

—Butterbumps singing "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"

Ser Hugh Beesbury brought her a pot of honey "as sweet as the maids of Tarth."[45]

—thoughts of Brienne Tarth

References

  1. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 5, Jon I.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.
  3. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 38, The Watcher.
  4. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
  5. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 1, Tyrion I.
  6. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
  7. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 23, Daenerys IV.
  8. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 54, Tyrion XII.
  9. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
  10. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 63, Daenerys V.
  11. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
  12. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 36, Daenerys VI.
  13. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
  14. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
  15. ↑ The Mystery Knight.
  16. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 14, Catelyn III.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 28, Catelyn V.
  18. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
  19. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.
  20. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 36, Daenerys IV.
  21. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
  22. ↑ Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
  24. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
  25. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 70, The Queen's Hand.
  26. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 25, Eddard V.
  27. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 24, Bran IV.
  28. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 68, Sansa VI.
  29. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
  30. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 54, Daenerys VI.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 67, Sansa VI.
  32. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 4, Bran I.
  33. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 32, Sansa III.
  34. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
  35. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Appendix.
  36. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Prologue.
  37. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 48, Jaime I.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
  39. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Reach: Garth Greenhand.
  40. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 9, Tyrion I.
  41. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 39, Arya VII.
  42. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 23, Daenerys II.
  43. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 33, Samwell II.
  44. ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 37, Jaime V.
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 14, Brienne III.
  46. ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 31, Brienne VI.
  47. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 52, Daenerys IX.
  48. ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.
  49. ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 17, Tyrion IV.
  50. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 34, Catelyn VI.
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