Uncle Roy’s Extracts

Forget the odd alcohol and colouring infused cooking essences of vanilla and peppermint on sale in the majority of supermarkets and stores. You can now get 100% NATURAL concentrated extracts of these two popular culinary flavourings and 50 other varieties besides, including Lavender, Lemongrass, Green Ginger, Spruce and Horseradish from Uncle Roy’s Comestible Concoctions, with more extracts coming to the range soon, I’ve already requested Lemon Verbena! The Lavender and Lemongrass extracts won Great Taste Gold awards in 2008 and are wonderful to use.

They’re available from a lot of Scottish outlets, but for the rest of us they can be purchased direct from Uncle Roy’s website, They are stronger than flavoured or infused oils with 5 or 6 drops usually equivalent to one teaspoon of fresh ingredient, allowing you to put just the right amount of flavour into whatever you are preparing. These concentrated extracts are not only proving very popular with cooks, chefs, chocolatieres, bakers and ice cream makers but also with everyone that tries them. They come in a smart little 50ml bottle and retail from £2.50, a snip considering it will stay fresh from the first drop till the last.

I can highly recommend the lavender extract and will soon be placing my order for a lot more of them especially since a Beef Rendang recipe went a tad pear shaped recently due to no fresh lemongrass being available near me, with a bottle of the extract in the cupboard I’ll never have that problem again! As well as the extracts Uncle Roy’s also sell Sugared Violet, Rose and Mimosa Petals and a variety of other culinary flowers including Carnation and Cornflower and an interesting range of Gourmet Salts, Relishes and Flower Petal Seasonings. A range well worth checking out for the herby cook. Please mention the UK Herbarium when placing your order.

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