Darina Allen: Delicious ways to cook with honey including BBQ chicken drumsticks

The chicken recipe is perfect for the next time you get the barbecue out

Pop these chicken drumsticks with honey, mustard and aioli on the BBQ or on the grill

Watch out when you buy your next pot of honey. Nearly half (46%) of the honey sold in the EU market is ‘fake,’ according to a recent investigation by the European Commission’s Anti-Fraud office.

It is adulterated with cheap sugar syrup made from rice, wheat or sugar beet. Honey fraud is lucrative and apparently difficult and expensive to detect but EU countries led by Slovenia are demanding action against the unfair competition of faux honey which, as one EU official put it, is basically ‘sugar water’ and is damaging the livelihoods of small beekeepers, misleading customers and discouraging would be apiarists. The perpetrators are sophisticated fraudsters, and it seems, continually ahead of investigators.