A jar of good honey or confiture is one of the least expensive ways to make an ordinary morning feel considered. Famille Perronneau’s acacia honey is clear, light and quietly floral, the one for tea, yogurt and fresh cheese; their lavender honey is rounder and more perfumed, for warm toast and scones. From Greece, THETA’s rare rose honey is an award-winning wildflower honey infused with roses, presented in a glass jar made to be left out.
Les Confitures à l’Ancienne cook their jams the old way, in small batches: wild strawberry, wild blueberry, fig for the cheese course, apple, pear and walnut for a galette. And L’Épicurien’s flower confits, rose, jasmine, violet and lavender, are the jewel-like preserves that finish a panna cotta, a bowl of whipped ricotta or a slice of vanilla ice cream.
Serve fig jam with Manchego or a warm Camembert. Spoon a flower confit over yogurt. Stir a little honey into crème fraîche for crêpes. The jars are small on purpose; they are meant to be finished.