Winter Honey Silk & Quiet Smoke Drinking Set
Two winter drinking blends of Atlantic carrageen, toasted grain, and quiet hearth warmth – one for daylight nourishment, one for evening descent.
 
Carrageen & Winter Honey Silk
Carrageen Night Cup – Quiet Smoke
 
This two-piece Winter Carrageen Drinking Set is a study in grain, sea, and time – a way of drinking nourishment slowly through the dark months.
 
Carrageen moss has long been used along the Atlantic edge as winter food rather than supplement – sea-held nourishment cooked into softness, taken warm, steadying the body when light is low and days are short. In this set, powdered Atlantic carrageen is paired with carefully toasted grains, malted barley, and restrained sweetness to create two distinct drinking blends, each shaped for a different hour of winter.
 
These are not sweet drinks and not stimulants. They are drinking foods – satin-textured, mineral-held, designed to be whisked gently into warm liquid and taken with attention. Each cup is an offering placed on the altar of the mouth, received by the body as the earthly temple, feeding tired bones and settling the nervous system through warmth, texture, and pace.
 
The set moves from day to night – from open hearth nourishment to quiet descent – without haste or excess.
 
Carrageen & Winter Honey Silk
Atlantic sea-moss, toasted grain, and salt-air honey warmth.
 
This blend is built around silk-fine carrageen moss and gently toasted oats, paired with lightly warmed barley malt and birch sugar. A trace of honey powder brings a soft, rounded sweetness – not floral, not sharp – while cacao nib powder, cinnamon, and ginger add depth without heaviness. A whisper of smoked sea salt anchors the blend in mineral clarity.
 
On the palate, it opens as warm grain and sea-silk, followed by barley glow and a dusk-honey softness that lingers quietly. The texture is satin and comforting, designed to be sipped slowly, warming from within.
 
This is a daytime or early-evening cup – nourishing, steadying, and deeply comforting without sedation.
 
Flavour notes
Warm oat steam
Dried honeycomb
Barley glow
Atlantic mineral finish
 
Carrageen Night Cup – Quiet Smoke
Sea-silk, kiln barley, cacao husk, and faint ember.
 
The night blend is darker and more inward-turning. Barley malt is toasted slightly deeper, bringing kiln warmth and hushed hearth tones. Birch leaf and bark adds cool woodland depth, while cacao nib powder introduces a shadow note rather than sweetness. Smoked sea salt appears here as a distant ember – present, but restrained.
 
Valerian flower is used in true micro-dose – not as a medicinal note, but as a softening presence that blooms gently after resting. The result is a velvet dusk texture, warm and grounding, encouraging the body to release the day without heaviness.
 
This is a night cup – for quiet rooms, low light, and a deliberate slowing of breath.
 
Flavour notes
Toasted grain
Faint hearth smoke
Birch coolness
Salt-ember finish
 
Serving suggestions
For each blend:
Use 1½ teaspoons per cup.
Add a splash of hot water and whisk to dissolve fully.
Top with warm milk – dairy, oat, or hazelnut all work beautifully.
Froth softly if desired.
For the day blend, a single drop of heather honey on the foam is enough.
For the night blend, serve a small spoon of raw honey alongside rather than stirred in.
Pause before drinking. These blends are meant to be taken slowly.
 
Storage
Store both blends in airtight glass or stone jars on a cool, dark shelf.
Avoid moisture. Use a dry spoon.
 
Shelf life
Best enjoyed within 6 months for peak aroma and texture.
 
Winter Hearth Soulfoods – Mother Tongue of the Cailleach Country
The Winter Soulfoods collection is an immersive body of work set in Cailleach country – the boglands of Béarra – approached as ecosystem, archive, threshold, and kitchen. It imagines what it might mean to work from within the Cailleach’s own domain, drawing flavour, nourishment, and craft from deep ground, slow water, turf fire, and time.
 
The bog is not treated as symbol or backdrop. It is a keeper of strata – layers of matter and memory held intact. A place where time is thickened rather than spent. A preservative ground where fermentation, storage, and patience are not techniques, but ways of living in relationship with the land around you, and the land within you.
 
Within this terrain, food is ceremony and commitment. Ingredients are gathered as the year unfolds, worked slowly, and held back for winter – not for spectacle, but for sustenance. Fermentation, sap-sweetness, mineral depth, bitterness, and gentle heat shape flavours meant to be met with attention, feeding the body deeply, strengthening bones, warming, soothing, and replenishing marrow through the dark months.
 
These soulfoods are acts of natural pace and continuity – ways of staying in relationship with place, season, and deep time. Crafted through hand, hearth, and long devotion, they carry the quiet authority of a path walked faithfully, day after day, in preparation for the dark.